Pandulf V of Capua

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Pandulf V was the count of Teano and prince of Capua (1022 – 1026). His relation to the ruling dynasty of Capua seems likely, but is uncertain. He was installed in his princely post by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne, who besieged the Pandulf IV, and took the city and the old prince captive. Pandulf IV was brought back to Germany in chains.

In 1024, Guaimar III of Salerno beseeched the Emperor Conrad II to release the elder Pandulf. Guaimar and Pandulf promptly called up the Norman mercenary Ranulf Drengot. They immediately besieged Capua. In 1025, the Byzantine catepan Basil Boiannes, who had been busy on a Sicilian expedition, joined them with a giant force and, in 1026, Boiannes negotiated Pandulf's surrender and granted him safe conduct to Naples. The siege had lasted 18 months.

In 1027, Pandulf IV, now reinstated, besieged Sergius IV of Naples, who had offered haven to Pandulf of Teano. The city fell and Sergius went into hiding. Pandulf fled to Rome, the city of his old imperial and papal allies. There he died some years thence.

[edit] References

• Gwatkin, H.M., Whitney, J.P. (ed) et al. The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 1926.
• Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016-1130. Longmans: London, 1967.

Preceded by Pandulf IV

Prince of Capua 1022 – 1026

Succeeded by Pandulf IV