Robert I of Capua
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Robert I (died 1120), count of
Gaitelgrima, daughter of Guaimar IV of Salerno
.
He tried to be the papal protector which his father and grandfather had been and he sent three hundred knights to rescue
count of Tusculum, Ptolemy I
, and never made it to their goal.
In 1114, he and
Archbishop Landulf II
made peace with them.
In 1117, Paschal fled to him and he hosted his successor,
Gelasius II, later in 1118, even escorting him back to Rome
with his army.
Though he did not recognise the
Mezzogiorno. He died in 1120, leaving a son and successor in the infant Richard III. An unnamed daughter of his was married to King Stephen II of Hungary
in the same year.
References
- Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016-1130. Longmans: London, 1967.
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