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In 1058, Gaeta was made subject to the count of Aversa, by then prince of Capua. Pandulf I (1032–1038) Pandulf II (1032–1038), co–duke; Leo II (1042), a member of the Docibilan family; Guaimar (1042–1045) Ranulf (1042–1045) Asclettin (1045) Atenulf I (1045–1062), also count of Aquino; Atenulf II (1062–1064), also count of Aquino
Landulf (or Lando [1]), either a Lombard count [2] or a Docibilian senator, [citation needed] was the Duke and Consul of Gaeta from 1091 to 1103. With the death of Jordan I of Capua in November 1090, [3] anarchy erupted in the fiefs of the Principality of Capua, especially in Aquino and Gaeta. In the latter, Renaud Ridel was chased from his ...
The Norman overlords of Gaeta appointed dukes from various families of local prominence, Normans mostly, until 1140, when the last Gaetan duke died, leaving the city to the king of Sicily, Roger II, to whom he had pledged himself in 1135. The first Norman duke after the brief tenure of Ranulf Drengot under Guaimar was William of Montreuil ...
Richard III [a] (died 1140/1), also known as Richard of Caleno, [3] was the Norman count of Carinola and last quasi-independent Duke of Gaeta, ruling from 1121 to his death. From 1113, he was regent of Gaeta for his cousin or nephew, Duke Jonathan; in 1121 he succeeded him. As duke he was a nominal vassal of the Princes of Capua, to whom he was ...
Richard II [a] (died 1111), called Richard of Aquila (Riccardo dell'Aquila), was the consul and duke of Gaeta, ruling from 1104 or 1105 to his death. Riccardo di Aquila was the son of Bartolomeo, Count of Caleno, possibly from a junior branch of the Counts of Aversa. [1]
But Desiderius of Benevento, the new the abbot of Montecassino, asked Richard to extort only 4000 sous from Duke Atenulf which, after several more weeks of trying to hold out, the duke finally paid. [13] In 1062, Richard sent his son Jordan to take Gaeta from Atenulf II, but Atenulf was allowed to continue personal rule until 1064. Though, in ...
Geoffrey Ridel (or Ridell) (Italian: Goffredo Ridello) (died 1084) was the Duke of Gaeta as a vassal of the Prince of Capua from 1067 or 1068. In 1061, he was one of the leaders of the first Norman campaign in Sicily. In 1067, he was appointed duke of Gaeta. He was the first Norman duke since William of Montreuil and the
Gregory was the Duke of Gaeta from 963 until his death. He was the second son of Docibilis II of Gaeta and his wife Orania. He succeeded his brother John II, who had left only daughters. Gregory rapidly depleted the publicum (public land) of the Duchy of Gaeta by doling it out to family members as grants.