{"slug": "duchy-of-benevento", "label": "Duchy of Benevento", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267816", "qid": "Q267816", "description": "duchy", "entries": 49, "years": 44, "span": [571, 1077], "span_label": ["571 CE", "1077 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 20}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 18}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 11}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "principality-of-capua", "label": "Principality of Capua", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "duchy-of-spoleto", "label": "Duchy of Spoleto", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "duchy-of-naples", "label": "Duchy of Naples", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "southern-italy", "label": "Southern Italy", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-the-lombards", "label": "Kingdom of the Lombards", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "liutprand-king-of-the-lombards", "label": "Liutprand, King of the Lombards", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "bari", "label": "Bari", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "benevento", "label": "Benevento", "shared": 3}], "items": [{"year": 571, "year_label": "571 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Benevento becomes the capital of an independent duchy, under the Lombard chieftain Zotto (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751956#Europe", "title": "571", "revid": 1364751956, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 581, "year_label": "581 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Lombards under Zotto, Duke of Benevento, sack the abbey of Monte Cassino near Naples. The Benedictine monks who survive flee to Rome, but they return to the site, and rebuild the monastery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801589#Europe", "title": "581", "revid": 1340801589, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 591, "year_label": "591 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Zotto, founder of the Duchy of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751608#Deaths", "title": "591", "revid": 1364751608, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 662, "year_label": "662 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Godepert makes war against his brother Perctarit. He seeks the aid of Grimoald I, duke of Benevento, who has him assassinated; his son Raginpert escapes. Grimoald usurps the throne and becomes ruler of the Lombard Kingdom. Perctarit is exiled, and seeks refuge in Gaul and Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805159#Europe", "title": "662", "revid": 1340805159, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 663, "year_label": "663 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Constans II launches an assault against the Duchy of Benevento (Southern Italy). Taking advantage of the fact that Lombard king Grimoald I is engaged against Frankish forces from Neustria, Constans disembarks at Taranto, and besieges Lucera and Benevento.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635360#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "663", "revid": 1367635360, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 689, "year_label": "689 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Grimoald II, duke of Benevento (Italy)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350231931#Deaths", "title": "689", "revid": 1350231931, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 705, "year_label": "705 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – Pope John VI dies at Rome, after a reign of little more than 3 years. During his rule, he protected the Byzantine exarch Theophylactus, when he invaded the Italian mainland from Sicily. He also induced Gisulf I, Lombard duke of Benevento, to withdraw from Byzantine territory, ransomed captives and ordered the restoration of Wilfrid, as deposed bishop of York. He is succeeded by John VII as the 86th pope of the Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807090#Religion", "title": "705", "revid": 1340807090, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 730, "year_label": "730 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand contracts an alliance with Eutychius, exarch of Ravenna, and agrees to support him in his attack on Rome, while subjugating the independent southern Lombard duchies of Benevento and Spoleto.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808684#Europe", "title": "730", "revid": 1340808684, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 732, "year_label": "732 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Romuald II, duke of Benevento (Italy)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808703#Deaths", "title": "732", "revid": 1340808703, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 733, "year_label": "733 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Duke Audelais of Benevento and his minor son Gisulf are deposed by King Liutprand of the Lombards. He is succeeded by Gregory, who becomes ruler of Benevento.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809659#Europe", "title": "733", "revid": 1340809659, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 740, "year_label": "740 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Duke Thrasimund II recovers the duchy of Spoleto and kills Hilderic with Papal-Beneventian aid. He does not return the confiscated papal cities, and his alliance with Pope Gregory III ruptures.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352534655#Europe", "title": "740", "revid": 1352534655, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 742, "year_label": "742 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand of the Lombards meets Pope Zachary at Terni (Central Italy), who appeals to the king's religious faith. Liutprand is a pious Catholic and signs a 20-year peace treaty, restoring the cities of the Duchy of Rome which he has captured. The independent Lombard duchies of Spoleto and Benevento absorb into the Lombard Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809740#Europe", "title": "742", "revid": 1340809740, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 744, "year_label": "744 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February", "text": "February – King Liutprand of the Lombards dies of natural causes after a 32-year reign, in which he has defeated the dukes of Spoleto and Benevento, bringing the Lombard Kingdom to the height of her power. He is succeeded by Hildeprand, called \"the Useless\" (nephew or grandson of Liutprand), as ruler of the Lombards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305046877#Europe", "title": "744", "revid": 1305046877, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 751, "year_label": "751 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gisulf II, duke of Benevento (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809785#Deaths", "title": "751", "revid": 1340809785, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 760, "year_label": "760 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358120145#Religion", "title": "760", "revid": 1358120145, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 760, "year_label": "760 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Liutprand, duke of Benevento (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358120145#Deaths", "title": "760", "revid": 1358120145, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 765, "year_label": "765 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Pepin III (\"the Short\") restores the papal privileges (see Donation of Pepin) in Benevento and Tuscany territory (and partially in Spoleto).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847741#Europe", "title": "765", "revid": 1340847741, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 774, "year_label": "774 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – King Desiderius surrenders the independence of the Lombards to the Franks, and is exiled to Corbie Abbey (Picardy). Charlemagne annexes northern Italy as a sub-kingdom, and takes the title of Rex Langobardorum. Some Lombards flee south to Benevento, which remains independent; Duke Arechis II retitles himself \"Prince of Benevento\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848019#Europe", "title": "774", "revid": 1340848019, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 776, "year_label": "776 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Charlemagne spends Easter in Treviso (northern Italy), after putting down a rebellion in Friuli and Spoleto. He removes Hrodgaud of Friuli from power, and reforms the duchy as the March of Friuli (military frontier district). Co-conspirators who support the revolt are Arechis II, duke of Benevento, and Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius. Frankish counts are placed in the cities of Friuli.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848048#Europe", "title": "776", "revid": 1340848048, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 781, "year_label": "781 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Charlemagne defines the Papal territory (see Papal States). He codifies the regions over which the pope would be temporal sovereign: the Duchy of Rome is expanded by Ravenna, the Duchy of the Pentapolis, parts of the Duchy of Benevento, Tuscany, Corsica and Lombardy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848254#Religion", "title": "781", "revid": 1340848254, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 786, "year_label": "786 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Charles the Younger, son of Charlemagne and ruler of Aquitaine, visits Monte Cassino and Capua, both in Beneventan territory. Prince Arechis II, feeling threatened by the Franks, decides that he needs to stop quarrelling with the Byzantine Duchy of Naples so he can focus on the Frankish foe. Prince Arechis II therefore signs a peace agreement, or 'pactum', with the Duchy of Naples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848276#Europe", "title": "786", "revid": 1340848276, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 787, "year_label": "787 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Empress Irene sends a Byzantine expeditionary army to invade southern Italy, but it is defeated and driven out (at Pope Adrian I's urging) by the Frankish army, allied with the forces of Benevento. She breaks off the engagement (see 782) between her son Constantine VI and the Frankish princess Rotrude, daughter of King Charlemagne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558832#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "AD 787", "revid": 1369558832, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 787, "year_label": "787 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 26", "text": "August 26 – Arechis II, duke of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558832#Deaths", "title": "AD 787", "revid": 1369558832, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 788, "year_label": "788 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade southern Italy. His attempts are thwarted by the Franks, who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753395#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "788", "revid": 1364753395, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 793, "year_label": "793 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "King Charlemagne orders a 3 kilometre long channel dug from Treuchtlingen to Weißenburg (the Rhine and Danube river basins), to improve the transportation of goods between the Rhineland and Bavaria. Charlemagne's son, Pepin of Italy, campaigns against the Lombards in Benevento (Southern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906953#Europe", "title": "793", "revid": 1364906953, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Grimoald III, Lombard prince of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Deaths", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Grimoald III, Lombard duke of Benevento, dies without heirs. He is succeeded by Grimoald IV, who is forced to pay tribute to King Charles the Younger.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Europe", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 817, "year_label": "817 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Prince Grimoald IV is assassinated by a complot of Lombard nobles vying for his throne. He is succeeded by Sico as ruler of Benevento (Southern Italy), who is forced to pay an annual tribute of 7,000 solidi to Louis I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204806#Europe", "title": "817", "revid": 1349204806, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 817, "year_label": "817 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Grimoald IV, Lombard prince of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204806#Deaths", "title": "817", "revid": 1349204806, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 839, "year_label": "839 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Prince Sicard of Benevento is assassinated by a conspiracy among the nobility. He is succeeded by Radelchis I, chief army officer and treasurer of Sicard, who proclaims himself ruler of Benevento. He imprisons Siconulf, heir and brother of Sicard, in Taranto. But Amalfitan merchants, led by Landulf I, the gastald of Capua, and with the support of Guaifer, rescue him from prison. Siconulf is proclaimed prince of Salerno, and a civil war erupts, which splits the Lombard principality in Southern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073737#Europe", "title": "839", "revid": 1267073737, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 851, "year_label": "851 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Radelchis I, prince (or duke) of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073715#Deaths", "title": "851", "revid": 1267073715, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "At the invitation of Benevento, the newly-restored Byzantine fleet appears in the waters off Otranto. On the orders of Emperor Basil I, the Byzantines sail up the Adriatic Sea and reconquer part of southern Italy. The city of Bari is occupied in the name of the Byzantine Empire. Instead of holding it for his 'ally' Adelchis of Benevento, Basil makes it the capital of the new Byzantine Theme of Longobardia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 891, "year_label": "891 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Orso, Lombard prince of Benevento, is deposed after the capture of Benevento by the Byzantines. Benevento becomes the capital of the thema of Longobardia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072819#Europe", "title": "891", "revid": 1267072819, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Atenulf I, Lombard prince of Capua, conquers the Duchy of Benevento. He deposes Duke Radelchis II and unites the two southern Lombard duchies in Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). The Byzantines offer a strategic alliance to Atenulf who directs a campaign against the Saracens. They establish themselves on the banks of the Garigliano River. From here, Arab warbands launch frequent raids in Campania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Europe", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 908, "year_label": "908 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Duke Atenulf I (the Great) of Benevento attacks the Saracens at the Garigliano River, with the assistance of Naples and Amalfi. Crossing the river, Atenulf defeats an Arab army and reaches the walls of their fortified camp. However, the sudden withdrawal of the Neapolitans renders the siege useless.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468131#Europe", "title": "908", "revid": 1364468131, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 921, "year_label": "921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Landulf I, prince of Benevento, supports an anti-Greek Apulian rebellion, ravaging several Byzantine strongpoints as far as Ascoli. The Apulian nobility, professing loyalty to the Byzantine Empire, appoints Landulf as stratego of the Theme of Longobardia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509617#Europe", "title": "921", "revid": 1341509617, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southwards to Italy, pillaging the environs of Naples, Benevento and Monte Cassino. When the Hungarians return home, they are attacked in the Apennine Mountains by Lombard forces, losing their plunder (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Europe", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 940, "year_label": "940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Atenulf II, prince of Benevento and Capua (Italy)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512049#Deaths", "title": "940", "revid": 1341512049, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 943, "year_label": "943 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua (Italy)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916983#Deaths", "title": "943", "revid": 1364916983, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 962, "year_label": "962 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13 – Otto I and John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, confirming John XII as the spiritual head of the Catholic Church. Otto recognizes John XII's secular control over the Papal States – by expanding the domain over the Exarchate of Ravenna, the Duchy of Spoleto, and the Duchy of Benevento.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513175#Europe", "title": "962", "revid": 1341513175, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 968, "year_label": "968 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Otto I (the Great) travels to Capua to meet there with ambassadors of Nikephoros II, who again reiterate their friendship, but refuse to consent to his dowry demands (see 967). Otto invades the Byzantine Theme of Langobardia with a Lombard expeditionary force. With the assistance of Benevento-Capua and naval support from Pisa, Otto attempts to take Bari by assault, but Byzantine resistance is stiff, and Otto withdraws back to Ravenna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919231#Europe", "title": "968", "revid": 1364919231, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 969, "year_label": "969 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pandulf Ironhead, duke of Benevento and Capua, leads the siege of Bovino. He is captured by the Byzantines and taken in chains to Bari, and jailed in Constantinople. Neapolitan forces under Marinus II, duke of Naples, invade Benevento-Capua, capture the city of Avellino and then lay siege to Capua.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365590679#Europe", "title": "969", "revid": 1365590679, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 969, "year_label": "969 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Landulf III, prince of Benevento and Capua (or 968)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365590679#Deaths", "title": "969", "revid": 1365590679, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Pandulf I (Ironhead), a Lombard prince, annexes the Principality of Salerno into his domains. For the first time, the Lombard duchies of Benevento, Capua, Salerno and Spoleto-Camerino are united under one ruler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#Europe", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 981, "year_label": "981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Pandulf Ironhead, prince of Benevento and Capua", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366191661#Deaths", "title": "981", "revid": 1366191661, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August", "text": "August – Pandulf II (\"the Old\"), prince of Benevento and Capua", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#Deaths", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1029, "year_label": "1029 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Prince Pandulf IV of Capua becomes the de facto ruler of southern Italy – holding Capua and Naples himself – this in support with his powerful allies Amalfi, Salerno and Benevento. Only the Duchy of Gaeta remains out of his grasp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363085319#Europe", "title": "1029", "revid": 1363085319, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1074, "year_label": "1074 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Battle of Montesarchio: Prince Pandulf IV, co-ruler of Benevento, is killed while fighting the Normans in southern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339713038#Europe", "title": "1074", "revid": 1339713038, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1077, "year_label": "1077 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Landulf VI, prince of Benevento", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303472978#Deaths", "title": "1077", "revid": 1303472978, "section": "Deaths"}}]}