List of counts of Aversa
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In 1030, the first Norman foothold in the Mezzogiorno was created when Sergius IV of Naples gave the town and vicinity of Aversa as a county to Ranulf. The following are the counts of Aversa:
- Rainulf I 1030–1045
- Asclettin 1045 (nephew of prec.)
- Rodulf Cappello 1045–1046 (appointee of the Prince of Salerno)[1]
- Rainulf II Trincanocte 1045–1048 (cousin of Asclettin)
- Herman 1048–1049 (son)
- Richard I 1049–1078 (cousin)
In 1058, Richard conquered the Principality of Capua and thereafter the counts of Aversa were, more importantly, princes of Capua.
References
[edit]- ^ Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Making History: the Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-century Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), p. 14.