John II (died 919) was the
duke of Naples
The Dukes of Naples were the military commanders of the ''ducatus Neapolitanus'', a Byzantine outpost in Italy, one of the few remaining after the conquest of the Lombards. In 661, Emperor Constans II, highly interested in south Italian affairs (h ...
from 915 to his death. He succeeded his father
Gregory IV on the latter's death late in 915.
He had accompanied his father to the
Battle of the Garigliano
The Battle of Garigliano was fought in 915 between Christian forces and the Saracens. Pope John X personally led the Christian forces into battle. The aim was to destroy the Arab fortress on the Garigliano River, which had threatened central Ital ...
under
Nicholas Picingli Nicholas Epigingles ( el, Νικόλαος Ἐπιγίγγλης), better known by his Latinisation of names, Latinized surname Picingli, was a Byzantine Empire, Byzantine general active in southern Italy and the Balkans. As ''strategos'' of the ''T ...
, where the Christian coalition defeated the Moslems of the fortress on the
Garigliano
The Garigliano () is a river in central Italy.
It forms at the confluence of the rivers Gari (also known as the Rapido) and Liri. Garigliano is actually a deformation of "Gari-Lirano" (which in Italian means something like "Gari from the Liri"). ...
.
919 deaths
10th-century dukes of Naples
Year of birth unknown
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