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670: 60: 2533: 680: 939:, who captured Benevento in 1053. Guiscard, in turn, gave Benevento to his nominal suzerain, Pope Leo IX. Pope Leo IX and his successors appointed a series of minor Lombards as dukes until Pope Gregory VII appointed Guiscard Prince of Benevento in 1078. Finally, in 1081, Guiscard returned the title to the papacy with little but the city remaining of the once-great principality which had determined the direction of South Italian affairs for generations. No dukes or princes were thereafter named. 82: 2482: 798: 790: 659: 494:
The Lombard duchies, part of the loosely-knit Lombard kingdom, were essentially independent, in spite of their common roots and language, and law and religion similar to that of the north, and in spite of the Beneventan dukes' custom of taking to wife women from the royal family. A swathe of
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to confirm documents, just like the Lombard kings, and the princes may have continued to use them into the ninth century. They indicate a continuation (or imitation) of Roman forms of administration, as well as widespread literacy (or "sub-literacy").
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ravages, the first Saracens having been called in by Radelchis and subsequently Siconulf in their decade-long war. Often spurred by rival Christian rulers, the Saracens attacked Naples and Salerno unsuccessfully. The Islamic colony in southern
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conquered Benevento and united the two duchies. He declared them inseparable and introduced the principle of co-rule, whereby sons would be associated with their fathers, a principle soon borrowed by Salerno. However, all
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The first decades of the eleventh century saw Benevento dwindle to less than either of her sister duchies, Salerno, then prominent, or Capua. Around 1000, Benevento still comprised 34 separate counties. In 1022,
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arrived in the Mezzogiorno in these years, and Benevento then acknowledged to be in papal suzerainty, was only an off-and-on ally. The Beneventan duke still had enough prestige to lend his son,
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defended the city bravely, however, and the Emperor, also fearing the arrival of Romuald's father, King Grimoald, retired to Naples. However, Romuald intercepted part of the Roman army at
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The circumstances surrounding the creation of the duchy are disputed. According to some scholars, Lombards were present in southern Italy well before the complete conquest of the
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In the following century despite the continuing hostility of the Frankish sovereigns, Benevento reached its apex, imposing a tribute on Naples and capturing Amalfi under Duke
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In the following decades, Benevento conquered some territories from the Byzantines, but the main enemy of the duchy was now the northern Lombard kingdom itself. King
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independence for nearly 300 years, although it was divided after 849. Benevento dwindled in size in the early 11th century, and was completely captured by the Norman
716:(prince). In 787, he was forced by Charlemagne's siege of Salerno to submit to Frankish suzerainty. At this time, Benevento was acclaimed by a chronicler as a 1195: 479:: the duchy by these accounts would have been founded in 571. The Lombards may have entered later, around 590. Whatever the case, the first duke was 1043: 932:, to the Norman-Lombard rebellion in Apulia as leader, but Atenulf abandoned the Normans and Benevento lost what was left of its influence. 710:(the old Lombard capital). Seeing that this was impractical and would draw Frankish attention to himself, he opted instead for the title of 1188: 950:. Talleyrand held the title till 1815 and was quite capable in administering the duchy besides his other tasks. Benevento was conquered by 929: 531:, he wrote first a history of Rome and then a history of the Lombards, the main source for the history of the duchy to that time as well. 527:
arrived in Benevento in the retinue of a princess from Pavia, the duke's bride. Settled into the greatest of Beneventan monasteries,
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ended the conflict by decreeing that the duchy be split into two distinct principates: Benevento (with
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and Salerno, and destroyed it. A peace between the Duchy and the Eastern Empire was signed in 680.
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intervened several times to impose a candidate of his own on the ducal throne. His successor,
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and Benevento foreign countries where it was forbidden to travel without royal permission.
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conquered both Capua and Benevento, but returned to Germany after the failed siege of
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In 788, the principality was invaded by Byzantine troops led by Desiderius's son,
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the title of Duke of Spoleto also. However, he split it between his sons:
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in 969. Before his death (March 981), he had gained from Emperor
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Under Zotto's successors, the duchy was expanded against the
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Lombard state in present-day southern Italy from 577 to 1053
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took the throne in Benevento. After 10 years of civil war,
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Ducato (570 ca.-774) et Principato di Benevento (774-1077)
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tried to claim the royal dignity and make Benevento a
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States and territories established in the 6th century
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monarchs allowed the duchy to increase its autonomy.
1210: 1004: 935:The greatest of the Norman rulers of the south was 503:separated the dukes of Benevento from the kings at 437:(r. 712–744) on was the duchy closely tied to the 755:made vague promises of tribute and submission to 694:briefly captured Spoleto and Benevento, but with 2765: 2396: 839:The crisis was aggravated by the beginning of 2464: 1196: 595:(duke since 647), went north to aid the King 1599:Patria del Friuli (Patriarchate of Aquileia) 1075:The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095 892:in 978. He succeeded in making Benevento an 459:refers to Benevento as the "Samnite Duchy" ( 1112:(1926). J. P. Whitney; et al. 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Index

List of Dukes and Princes of Benevento
Latin
Calvary cross potent motif was commonly minted on coins by various princes of Duchy of Benevento
cross potent
coins
The Principality of Benevento shown within Italy in 1000
Vassal state
Kingdom of the Lombards
Benevento
Lombardic
Vulgar Latin
Byzantine Greek
Chalcedonian Christianity
Arianism
Monarchy
Duke / Prince
Zotto
Arechis II
Landulf VI
Norman conquest of southern Italy
Solidus, tremissis, denarius
Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of the Lombards
Principality of Salerno
County of Apulia and Calabria
Italy
Lombard
Italian Peninsula
Benevento
Southern Italy

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