- a
Lombard official in
charge of some
portion of the
royal demesne (a
gastaldate,
gastaldia or castaldia) with civil, martial, and
judicial powers. By...
- the Saracens. In 960
Atenulf succeeded in
attaching Pontecorvo to his
gastaldate of Aquino; at his
death his
lands were
divided into a
county of Aquino...
- suzerainty. In 847 a
large Muslim force seized Bari,
until then a
Lombard gastaldate under the
control of Pandenulf.
Saracen incursions proceeded northwards...
- apogee,
occupying most of the
Terra di
Lavoro area. It was
originally a
gastaldate, then a county,
within the prin****lity of Salerno. Old
Capua was an ancient...
-
suffered destruction by Barbarians, but
never ceased to be an
important gastaldate during the
Lombard domination, as part of the
Duchy of Spoleto. Under...
- Umbria. The seat of a
bishop until the 11th century,
Trevi was a
Lombard gastaldate, then, in the
early 13th century,
freed itself of
outside rulership to...
-
fourth century.
Under the
Lombards it
appears to have
belonged to the
gastaldate of Conza, when a
fortress was
built in 840 by Orso,
count of Conza, from...
-
being controlled by
Ostrogoths and
Byzantine Empire, it was seat of a
gastaldate under the
Lombard kings, so it
regained importance. Later, in 801, it...
-
Avars and
sought refuge with the Lombards.
Bojano became a seat of a
gastaldate. The
Bulgars also
settled in
nearby Sepino and Isernia. Paul the Deacon...
- Salerno. This
civil war
continued apace for a decade,
during which the
gastaldates of
Benevento took the
opportunity to
entrench their independence, especially...
