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From 1092 to 1098, the Drengots were expelled from Capua by the Lombard citizenry. After their reinstallation, the dynasty declined more and more in relative power. They still attempted to defend the papacy, but to little success. They were forced to make submission to the
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The Drengots did not rise to great heights under the elder sons, Gilbert dying at Cannae and Rudolph returning to France. It was the young, but ruthless, Ranulf who brought them to great heights. He happily employed his men in support of the ousted
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revolted against the latter and spent his life trying, with the aid of Emperor and Pope, to retake his principality, but to no avail. He died in 1156 and the Drengot power was completely broken.
244:, the son of Asclettin, immediately besieged the city of Capua. It surrendered the next year, but Richard, though he took the princely title, left the city in the hands of its rightful prince, 578:, count of Aversa, was a son of a sibling of Asclettin of Acerenza. Whether this sibling was one of his known four brothers or another brother or a sister is unknown. He had a son 275:. The papacy thus turned to the princes of Capua to defend them and Richard and Jordan became popemakers: they imposed, by military force, the papal candidates of 201:. This nephew of Melus brought with him many of the Norman mercenaries, including the Drengots, excepting Rudolph, who returned with some men to Normandy. 259:, to take possession of the city in 1062, though this wasn't accomplished until 1064. Richard and Jordan worked to expand Drengot power to the north, in 437: 236:
By far the most significant event in the familial history of the Drengot clan was the conquest of the principality of Capua in 1058. In 1057,
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between Greek and Lombard, he donated to a nephew of Melus some land in the county of Comino, in the valley of the
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The first members of the family known are five brothers. Four of these accompanied their one exiled brother,
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The Drengot Normans were successful with Melus until their defeat at Cannae in 1018. After that the
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According to most south Italian sources, this last was designated leader for the
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Norwich. Chalandon, p 77. This sister is identified as the recent widow of the
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by Amatus, but which "count" of Gaeta is unclear. The then-reigning Duke
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came down in 1022 and pacified the region, maintaining the
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Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile
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In 1042, Asclettin, who had thrown his lot in with the
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in a twelvefold division of the conquest in Apulia.
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Index

Drengot
Norman
Southern Italy
Lombards
Hautevilles
Carreaux
Avesnes-en-Bray
Rouen
Osmond
Richard I of Normandy
Orderic Vitalis
William of Jumièges
Ralph Glaber
Rudolph
Leo of Ostia
Amatus of Montecassino
Adhemar of Chabannes
Gilbert Buatère
Battle of Cannae
Asclettin
Ranulf
Rome
Pope Benedict VIII
Salerno
Capua
Melus of Bari
Apulia
Emperor Henry II
Garigliano
duke of Naples

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