
The Principality of Salerno in Italy around 1000
These are 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 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. These are the rulers
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 for his son, later
Charles II of Naples. It was regularly used for the heirs of the
Kings of Naples and later the
Two Sicilies. In the fourteenth century, most of the province of Salerno became the territory of the
Princes of Sanseverino.
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