Landulf of Gaeta

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Landulf (or Lando^[1]), either a Lombard count^[2] or a Docibilian senator,^[3] was the Duke and Consul of Gaeta from 1091 to 1103.

With the death of Jordan I of Capua in November 1090,^[4] anarchy erupted in the fiefs of the Principality of Capua, especially in Aquino and Gaeta. In the latter, Renaud Ridel was chased from his tower by the populace, who acclaimed Landulf as their duke. His reign lasted for over a decade, but of it nothing is known. He had a son Marinus by his wife Inmilgia, a daughter of a duke of Naples. He was thrown out of Gaeta in 1103^[5] by the Norman William de Blosseville.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Chalandon, p 297, calls him Landon.
2. ^ Ibid.
3. ^ Southern Italy.
4. ^ Peter the Deacon, IV, 10.
5. ^ Or 1101 or 1102.

[edit] Sources

• Leo of Ostia and Peter the Deacon. Chronicon Monasterii Casinensis.
• Chalandon, Ferdinand. Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicilie. Paris, 1907.
• Genealogy of the Medieval Nobility of Southern Italy.

Preceded by Reginald

Duke of Gaeta 1091 – 1103

Succeeded by William II