The ''Catalogus Baronum'' ("Catalogue of the Barons") is a collection of registers of the military obligations owed by the

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s of the

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. The collection was compiled in 1322 under the Angevin dynasty. It contains three distinct registers from distinct periods and covering different regions of the kingdom. The first, the ''Quaternus magne expeditionis'', was originally compiled under the

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king

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in 1150–51, then revised by his grandson, William II, in 1167–68. It listed the

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s of the crown in the

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, the

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and the

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and detailed the services each owed. The second register was composed under William around 1175. It lists only the

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s of Aquino, Arce and Sora. The third register, the ''Pheudatarii iusticiaratus Capitanatae'', is that of the Swabian king Frederick II from 1239–40. It lists only the feudatories of the

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. The single manuscript, known as Angevin Register 1322 A (242), was kept in the

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until 1943, when it was destroyed along with many other documents when occupying

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troops set fire to the archives during the

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.On the combat in and around Naples in September 1943, see Four days of Naples. It was itself based on a now-lost late 13th-century document, the so-called "Swabian Copy", which contained a copy of the original ''Quaternus'' alongside Frederick II's register. The ''

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'' of the collection was published in 1653 by Carlo Borrelli, who also gave the document the name by which it is known, ''Catalogus Baronum''. A modern

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was published in 1972 based on surviving

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