- a
Lombard official in
charge of some
portion of the
royal demesne (a
gastaldate,
gastaldia or castaldia) with civil, martial, and
judicial powers. By...
- 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...
- 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...
-
suffered destruction by Barbarians, but
never ceased to be an
important gastaldate during the
Lombard domination, as part of the
Duchy of Spoleto. Under...
-
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...
- of the city
dates however from the 10th century, when it was a
Lombard gastaldate.
After the
Norman conquest of
southern Italy, it was
given to a nephew...
- 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...
-
ruled by semi-autonomous dukes,
which were in turn
subdivided into
gastaldates at the muni****l level. The
capital of the
kingdom and the
center of...
-
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...
