Pactum Sicardi

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The Pactum Sicardi was a treaty signed on 4 July 836 between the three Greek Tyrrhenian city-states (duchies) of Sorrento, Naples, and Amalfi and the Prince of Benevento, Sicard.

The treaty was an armistice which was supposed to last five years. Sicard also recognised the rights of merchants from the three cities to travel through his domains. However, war had begun again in 837, when Andrew II of Naples called in the Saracens as allies against the Lombards of Benevento. In 838, Sicard captured Amalfi by sea.

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• Gwatkin, H.M., Whitney, J.P. (ed) et al. The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 1926.
• The Art of Mercantantia: Medieval Commerce and Culture in Southwestern Italy
• Lexikon des Mittelalters VII.1833