thumb|Sketch of a denarius of GrimoaldGrimoald IV (assassinated 817), son of Ermenrih, called
Falco, was the
Lombard Prince of Benevento from 806 until his death. He was a
thesaurarius or
stolesayz/
stoleseyz before becoming prince on the death of
Grimoald III, over Grimoald's own son, Ilderic, another
stoleseyz.
In 812, he was forced to pay 25,000
solidi in tribute to
Charlemagne. In 814, he pledged an annual tribute of 7,000
solidi to
Louis the Pious. These promises, however, were never kept and his successor,
Sico, made the same empty guarantees. The Beneventans were independent in practice and by the end of the ninth century would not even recognise Frankish overlordship. Grimoald was assassinated in 817 by a complot of nobles vying for his throne.