After having considered the nature of identity cohesion exhibited and practised by the Hucpoldings, we will now strive to trace the process of territorial settlement and social affirmation they performed. All these developments were coordinated with royal power, from the arrival of their forefather Hucpold to the consolidation of seigneurial hegemony in the area of Bologna with Hugh II.

From the beginning in Italy, the features qualifying their conduct were military commitments and a close relationship of Königsnähe with Italian rulers, particularly with Rudolf II of Burgundy. Thus, the group acquired a position of superiority among the most illustrious aristocracies of marquis rank in the kingdom. Later, upon conclusion of the brief marchisal affirmation of Boniface I in Emilia, and having survived the reign of Hugh of Arles who had been hostile to them, the Hucpoldings obtained the marches of Tuscia and Spoleto with royal support. Nonetheless, they did not succeed in anchoring their lineage in any of those environments. The development of their seigneurial pre-eminence and the early dinastizzazione of the title of count came about, instead, in those areas of the Bolognese territory in the public district controlled by Boniface I for a short time at the beginning of the tenth century. A good part of the group's landed wealth was concentrated there, divided between allodia and beneficia belonging to the fisc. The vassalage relationship established with the archbishops of Ravenna contributed to accentuating kinship pre-eminence in that region, and was then reinforced by the foundation of the monastery of Musiano in the Apennine valley of the river Savena.

The group never pursued with determination the accession of its members into ecclesiastical hierarchies as a further means to increase and vary its hegemonic position.