Guaimario IV, prince of Salerno

Events

Date of Birth: about 1010 or 1012.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Bedina gives a date of about 1013. Settipani estimates 1005.

Date of Death: 3 June 1052.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date of Guaimario’s murder is given by Schipa (p. 146). Bedina gives “forse” the same date.

Relationships

Father: Guaimario III, princeps of Salerno.

This relationship is given by Bedina and by Drell. Cawley notes that one source makes Guaimario IV an adopted son of Guaimario III, but it is probably mistaken.

Mother: Gaitelgrima di Capua.

This relationship is given by Bedina and by Settipani.

Spouse: Gemma.

This relationship is given by Cawley.

Spouse: Purpura.

This relationship is given by Cawley.

Spouse: Gemma di Capua, daughter of Laidolfo, count. Married in about 1032.

This relationship is given by Bedina, by Stasser, and by Cawley. Stasser notes that Laidolfo was probably descended from the counts of Teano.

Children (by Gemma or Purpura):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Ioannes III, princeps of Salerno.

Children (by Purpura):

Gaitelgrima married (1) Drogo de Hauteville, count of Apulia; married (2) Roberto di Lucera, count of Gargano; married (3) Affred, count.

Children (by Gemma di Capua):

Gisulf (about 1035 - 2 January 1091), princeps of Salerno, married Maria.

Landolf married Emilia di Gaeta.

Guido (died 1075).

Ioannes Seurre.

Guaimario.

Sichelgaita (died 27 July 1090) married Roberto “il Guiscardo”, duke of Apulia.

Gaitelgrima married (1) Jordan, princeps of Capua; married (2) Ugo di Faida.

References

Bedina, Andrea “Guaimario” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 60 (2003).

Cawley, Charles. “GUAIMAR di Salerno” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Drell, Joanna H. "Family Structure in the Principality of Salerno during the Norman Period, 1077-1154" in Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII (1995).

Schipa, Michelangelo. Storia del Principato Longobardo di Salerno (Naples: 1887).

Settipani, Christian. Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obsurs: Les princes caucasiens et l’empire du VI^e au IX^e siècle. (De Boccard, 2006).

Stasser, Thierry. “Les mariages des familles princières d’Italie du Sud (fin VIIIe-fin XIe siècles)” in Les Stratégies Matrimoniales (IX^e - XIII^e siècle) (Martin Aurell, ed.). Brepols, 2013.