Guaimar II of Salerno

Guaimar II (also Waimar, Gaimar, or Guaimario, sometimes called Gybbosus, meaning "Hunchback") (died 4 June 946) was the

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, and restored gold coinage.

In 895, when his father was captured, he ruled the principality and when Duke Athanasius of Naples incited a revolt against Guaimar I, it was only through his assistance that the revolt was put down. After his despotic and unpopular father retired, or was forced by him, to enter the monastery of San Massimo, he took over the reins of government completely.

At first, he continued the

Atenulf II and son of Landulf I. His first marriage is also interesting in that he may have had a son named Guaimar by this marriage. This Guaimar has caused some to renumber succeeding Guaimars, making Guaimar III Guaimar IV and Guaimar IV

Guaimar V.

Guaimar II joined, like his father-in-law, the fight against the Moslems which had been only secondary to his father and grandfather. He was present at the

Chronicum Salernitanum

attributes many other victories over the Saracens to him.

After the Garigliano, Guaimar joined Landulf I of Capua against

protospatharius Epiphanius. In 940, at the urging of his wife, he accepted the exiled Landulf of Benevento

and his sons, bestowing on them territories in Salerno.

Guaimar was a religious prince. He endowed San Massimio, which was founded by his grandfather,

Cluniac reformers in his final years. He associated his son by his second wife, Gisulf

, with him in 943 and Gisulf succeeded when Guaimar died on 4 June 946.

References

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: LX Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Caravale, Mario (ed). Rome: 2003.

Lexikon des Mittelalters VIII.1932

Regnal titles
Preceded by Guaimar I	Prince of Salerno 901–946	Succeeded by Gisulf I