List of dukes and princes of Benevento

List of dukes and princes of Benevento
This is a list of the dukes and princes of Benevento.
Dukes of Benevento
571–591 Zotto
591–641 Arechis I
641–642 Aiulf I
642–647 Radoald
647–662 Grimoald I (then King of the Lombards, 662–671)
662–687 Romoald I
687–689 Grimoald II
689–706 Gisulf I
706–730 Romoald II
730–732 Audelais
733–739 Gregory
739–742 Godescalc
742–751 Gisulf II
751–758 Liutprand
758–774 Arechis II (tried to become king in 774)
Princes of Benevento
Also princes of Capua from 900 to 981.
774–787 Arechis II (independent of any royal authority)
787–806 Grimoald III
806–817 Grimoald IV
817–832 Sico I
832–839 Sicard
839–851 Radelchis I
851–854 Radelgar
854–878 Adelchis
878–881 Waifer
881–884 Radelchis II (deposed)
884–890 Aiulf II
890–891 Orso
891–895 To the Byzantines.
895–897 Guy (also Duke of Spoleto d.898)
897 Peter, Bishop of Benevento, as regent
897–900 Radelchis II (restored)
House of Capua
900–910 Atenulf I the Great
901–910 Landulf I Antipater, co-ruler
910–943 Landulf I Antipater, co-ruled from 901 (see directly above)
911–940 Atenulf II, co-ruler
940 Landulf, co-ruler
933–943 Atenulf III Carinola, co-ruler
940–943 Landulf II the Red, co-ruler (perhaps from 939)
943–961 Landulf II the Red, co-ruled from 940 (see above)
943–961 Pandulf I Ironhead, co-ruler
959–961 Landulf III, co-ruler
961–968 Landulf III, co-ruling with his brother (perhaps to 969, see directly below), also co-ruled from 959 (see directly above)
961–981 Pandulf I Ironhead, co-ruling with his brother (see directly above), also co-ruled from 943 (see above), also duke of Spoleto (from 967), Salerno (from 978), and Capua (from 961)
968–981 Landulf IV, co-ruler, briefly sole duke in 981, then duke of Capua (d.993)
981–1014 Pandulf II
987–1014 Landulf V, co-ruler
1014–1033 Landulf V, co-ruled from 987 (see directly above, d.1053)
1012–1033 Pandulf III, co-ruler (d.1059)
1033–1050 Pandulf III, co-ruled from 1012 (see directly above, d.1060)
1038–1050 Landulf VI, co-ruler (d.1077)
In 1050, the Lombard co-princes were expelled from the city by the discontented citizenry. In 1051, the city was given to the pope. In 1053, the Normans who had occupied the duchy itself since 1047 (when the Emperor Henry III gave permission to Humphrey of Hauteville) ceded it to the Pope with whom they had recently made a truce.
Princes of Benevento under Papal Suzerainty
The pope appointed his own rector, but the citizens invited the old princes back and, by 1055, they were ruling again; as vassals of the pope, however.
1053–1054 Rudolf, rector
1054–1059 Pandulf III (again)
1054–1077 Landulf VI, co-ruled from 1038
1056–1074 Pandulf IV
Norman Prince of Benevento
1078–1081 Robert Guiscard
Guiscard returned it to the Pope, but no new Beneventan prince or dukes were named until the 19th century.
Prince of Benevento under Napoleon
1806–1815 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
References
Sources
Grierson, Philip and Mark Blackburn, edd. Medieval European Coinage, 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Hallenbeck, Jan T. "Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 72, 4 (1982): 1–186.
Wickham, Chris. Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000. London: Macmillan, 1981.
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