4-470: The Chronicon Salernitanum , or " Salerno Chronicle ", is an anonymous 10th century chronicle of the history of the Principality of Salerno . It was probably written around 990 (or 974) and has been attributed to Radoald of Salerno , Abbot of San Benedetto , by Huguette Taviani-Carozzi. It "has some claims to literary merit" and the "matter is good despite the lack of critical ability which disfigures
8-461: A peace in 851, confirming Siconulf as prince of Salerno. The chronology is very confusing from then on until the assassination of Adhemar , when a new dynasty took the throne. The Principality of Salerno reached its Zenit under Guaimar IV, who ruled all continental southern Italy between 1039 amnd 1048, expelling for the first time since the fall of the western Roman empire the Bizantines from
12-587: The italian peninsula. Salerno was besieged by the Normans of Robert Guiscard and Prince Richard I of Capua until it fell on 13 December 1076. Prince Gisulf II surrendered the next year and the principality, the final Lombard state in Italy, fell. Salerno became the capital of Guiscard's duchy of Apulia , Calabria, and Sicily . "Prince of Salerno" was also a title created by Charles I of Naples (reigned 1266-1285) for his son, later Charles II of Naples . It
16-610: The work," according to the Catholic Encyclopedia . This Italian history article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Prince of Salerno This page is a list of the rulers of the Principality of Salerno . When Prince Sicard of Benevento was assassinated by Radelchis in 839, the people of Salerno promptly proclaimed his brother, Siconulf , prince. War raged between Radelchis and Siconulf until Emperor Louis II came down and forced
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