sentences:  With the queen, he negotiated a division of power with the bishop of Reggio whereby the bishop was confirmed as "comes civitatis", count of the city, and Adalbert as "comes comitatus", count of the county, where the county was said to begin three or four miles outside the city walls.He appears with a similar title, "comes comitatus Mantuanensis", in Mantua in a letter of the abbess of Santa Giulia dated 10 June 977.In 984, Adalbert appears as a margrave.