- Landulf IV of Benevento
Landulf IV (died
13 July 982 ) was theprince of Capua (as Landulf VI) and Benevento from 968, when he was associated with his father,Pandulf Ironhead , andprince of Salerno associated with his father from 977 or 978. In 968, his uncle Landulf III died and this was the occasion of his rise, Pandulf ignored the rights of Landulf's son Pandulf, his nephew, and instead associated his own son with the government.In 969, the Ironhead was captured in the
Battle of Bovino . The "strategos " ofBari , Eugenius, captured the town ofAvellino and besieged Capua, then Benevento. Landulf's mother,Aloara of Capua andLandulf I, Archbishop of Benevento , took over the government in his name, to defend the city from the Byzantines. In 977, after the Ironhead's release, he joined his father in an expedition in defence ofMonte Cassino against the predations of Count Bernard of Alife.On Pandulf's death in March 981, the great Lombard principality was divided: Landulf, the eldest son, received Capua-Benevento and Spoleto, and Pandulf, the second son, received Salerno. However, the
Emperor Otto II , who was in theMezzogiorno at the time, fighting theSaracens , dispossessed Landulf of theduchy of Spoleto and gave it to Thrasimund, duke ofCamerino and count ofPenne . Soon thereafter, Landulf was forced also to recognise the division of Capua-Benevento, united since 899. His cousin, the aforementioned deprived Pandulf, as prince of Benevento, perhaps as an underling. Thereafter, Landulf was merely prince of Capua, in which capacity he supported the Cluniac reform and founded the church of San Croce atCaiazzo . He joined his deposed brother Pandulf inCalabria , where they fought the Saracens with Otto. They both died in theBattle of Stilo on13 July . He was succeeded by his younger brother Landenulf, who was under the regency of Aloara.References
*Caravale, Mario (ed). "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: LXIII Labroca – Laterza".
Rome , 2004.
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