Landolfo I

Prince of the Lombards of the united principate of Capua and Benevento

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Settipani estimates 875.

Date of Death: 10 April 943.

Place of Death: Benevento.

The date is given by Beolchini.

Relationships

Father: Atenolfo (I), count of Capua, prince of Benevento.

This relationship is given by Beolchini and by Settipani.

Mother: uncertain.

Cawley calls her a daughter of Sergius II, duke of Naples. Beolchini calls her Sichelgaita, a descendant of the family of the dukes of Gaeta.

Spouse: Gemma di Napoli. Married in January or February 898.

This relationship is given by Beolchini and by Skinner (p. 49).

Children:

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Atenolfo (died 943), prince of Capua, married Rotilda di Salerno in about 925.

Landolfo II (died 961), prince of Capua.

References

Beolchini, V. “Landolfo” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 63 (2004).

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).

Skinner, Rachel. Family Power in Southern Italy. (Cambridge U.P., 1995).