- Robert I of Capua
Robert I (died 1120), count of
Aversa andprince of Capua from 1106, on the death of his elder and heirless brother Richard, was the second eldest son ofJordan I of Capua and Gaitelgrima, daughter ofGuaimar IV of Salerno .He tried to be the papal protector which his father and grandfather had been and he sent three hundred knights to rescue
Pope Paschal II and his sixteen cardinals during their imprisonment byEmperor Henry V in 1111. However, his troops were turned back by thecount of Tusculum , Ptolemy I, and never made it to their goal.In 1114, he and
Jordan of Ariano assaulted papalBenevento , but the Archbishop Landulf II made peace with them.In 1117, Paschal fled to him and he hosted his successor,
Gelasius II , later in 1118, even escorting him back toRome with his army.Though he did not recognise the
Apulia n suzerainty which his brother had been forced to acknowledge, he was nonetheless a petty and secondary power in theMezzogiorno . He died in 1120, leaving a son and successor in the infant Richard III.ource
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