List of counts of Aversa

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In 1030, the first Norman foothold in the Mezzogiorno was created when Sergius IV of Naples gave the town and vicinity of Aversa as a county to Ranulf. The following are the counts of Aversa:

In 1058, Richard conquered the Principality of Capua and thereafter the counts of Aversa were, more importantly, princes of Capua.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Making History: the Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-century Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), p. 14.