Principality of Capua
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Was a Lombard Principality in southern Italy.
Establishment
January 863: Pando the Rapacious declared Capua independent from Salerno in 862.
Chronology
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After the death of Landulf of Capua, the Duke of Benevento became co-regent with Landulf´s son who was still a child.
January 1008: In 1007, when his brother Landulf of Capua died, Pandulf assumed the government of the principality for the young heir, his nephew Pandulf III of Capua, son of Landulf,
The Principality of Capua became completely independent from the influence of Benevento.
January 1015: After the death of Pandolf II, Pandolf III returns to reign alone in Capua.
Was the end of a period of Bavarian domain over Benevento and Capua.
January 1027: Pandulf IV was released by Emperor Conrad II in 1024 at the request of Prince Guaimar III of Salerno, who was hoping for a new ally. Aided by Guaimar and the Norman knight Rainulf Drengot, Pandulf immediately besieged Capua. In 1025, Basil, returning from an expedition to Sicily, joined them in large forces. In 1026, after an 18-month siege, the city fell. The Greek commander gave the Count of Teano safe conduct to Naples. Pandulf resumed his dominion and remained in power until 1038.
Were a series of wars between the Byzantines and the Normans in southern italy and the Balkan Peninsula.
4.1.Norman conquest of southern Italy
Were a series of military campaigns by Norman forces that slowly conquered southern Italy from the Bizyntine Empire and from local Lombard rulers.
4.1.1.Norman conquest of the Principality of Capua
The Principality of Capua is conquered by the Normans.
January 1059: In 1058 Richard conquered the Principality of Capua and therefore, from that moment on, the title of Count of Aversa was included among those pertaining to the Princes of Capua.
January 1091: When Jordan of Aversa died in 1090, his young son Richard II and his regents were unable to hold Capua. They were forced to flee the city by a Lombard, Lando.
January 1099: Lando ruled Capua with popular support until he was forced out by the combined Hauteville forces in the siege of Capua in 1098. With this, ended the last Lombard-ruled state in Italy.
January 884: In 883, a group of Muslims, coming mostly from Sicily (already partly under their control since 827), but also from North Africa, settled in the Garigliano plain, building houses and even a mosque.
January 900: In 899, Atenulph I of Capua conquered Benevento and unified the two duchies.
January 983: Landulf IV was forced to divide his principality with his cousin Pandulf II, who became prince of Benevento.
January 1023: Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, in 1022, conquered Capua and Benevento.
January 1039: Guaimar IV of Salerno put Capua under siege and conquered the principality.
January 1048: In 1047 what had been the undertaking of a lifetime (uniting southern Italy) for Guaimar of Salerno was completely cancelled: the emperor Henry III, who arrived in southern Italy to ask for a deed of submission from all the local princes, returned Capua to Pandulf.
Disestablishment
January 1099: Lando ruled Capua with popular support until he was forced out by the combined Hauteville forces in the siege of Capua in 1098. With this, ended the last Lombard-ruled state in Italy.
