Pandulf VI Of Capua
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Pandulf VI (also numbered as Pandulf V) (died 1057) was the successor of Pandulf IV as
Prince of Capua This is a list of the rulers of the Principality of Capua. Lombard rulers of Capua Gastalds and counts The gastalds (or counts) of Capua were vassals of the princes of Benevento until the early 840s, when Gastald Landulf began to clamour for the ...
from his death in 1050 to his own seven years later. He was the son of Pandulf IV and Maria. He co-ruled with his father in the
Duchy of Gaeta The Duchy of Gaeta was an early medieval state centered on the coastal South Italian city of Gaeta. It began in the early ninth century as the local community began to grow autonomous as Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean and the penins ...
as early as 1032–1038. He was a weak ruler under whom the principality declined in importance and influence. Upon his death, his state immediately fell into disarray under his brother, Landulf VIII. Capua itself was conquered within a year by
Richard of Aversa Richard Drengot (died 1078) was the count of Aversa (1049–1078), prince of Capua (1058–1078, as Richard I) and duke of Gaeta (1064–1078). Early career in Italy Richard, who came from near Dieppe in the Pays de Caux in eastern Normandy, was t ...
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, 1907. * Norwich, John Julius. ''The Normans in the South 1016-1130''. Longmans:
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, 1967. 1057 deaths Princes of Capua Dukes of Gaeta 11th-century Lombard people 11th-century rulers in Europe Year of birth unknown {{Italy-noble-stub