The first half of the tenth century would be central to the survival of the Hucpoldings and to the redefinition of their areas of interest in the Italian kingdom. The group gave up their uncertain defences, assumed during King Hugh's reign, and involved themselves in the uprising against the king himself and his son Lothar in 945. Despite not being able to restore the prominent position they once held in Emilia due to new forces established over time, Boniface and his son Tebaldus acquired the offices of duke of Spoleto and marquis of Camerino.

This half of the century represented without doubt a turning point for the group, well represented by the cognatic line originating from Boniface, a branch that followed a completely different path than the previous three generations. With certainty, one can establish five men and at least one woman as following in direct descent from him, which allowed the insertion of the kin into new and diverse political spaces in these decades of troubles. Just like their father, each of them appears with high-ranking titles in the documentation, as counts or as marquises, sometimes pertaining to the government of a public district. It is interesting to note, in this sense, that the acquisition of an office by one of the siblings does not result in an automatic concentration of all the others in a certain territory. Quite the contrary: the kin's strategy seems to involve a diversified and extensive attempt to establish territory through multiple angles that according to the situation emphasized the acquisition of a public office or of assets. The march of Tuscany, the duchy of Spoleto – ancient and prestigious institutions – always remained among the group's goals, but without prompting the interest of the whole kin group.