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The Assizes of Capua were the first of three great legislative acts of the kingdom of Sicily of Frederick II of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor. They were the first, promulgated at Capua in 1220, before the Assizes of Messina on 1221 and the Constitutions of Melfi of 1231.
The Assizes were promulgated on the mainland of the realm as they were a reform of the Assizes of Ariano, promulgated by Frederick's grandfather Roger II in 1140 at Ariano Irpino, nearby to Capua. The intent was, as in the previous Assizes and his coming Constitutions, the strengthening of the royal power in the kingdom, usually at the expense of the noblesse.
Originally a reform of the AssizesofCapuaof 1220, themselves his reform of the Assizesof Ariano of 1140, the Constitutions formed the basis of Sicilian law...
reform of the laws began with the Assizesof Ariano in 1140 by Roger II of Sicily. Frederick I continued the reformation with the AssizesofCapua (1220)...
ofCapua respectively, had consolidated Norman rule over the peninsula and made it possible for the great feats of legislation that year. The Assizes...
him enforcing the AssizesofCapua in favour of the church against the nobility and even against the government. He found in favour of Santa Maria de Luco...
retook the rebelling counties of Caserta and Acerra and conquered Capua, finally taking Naples that October. Conrad died of malaria on 21 May 1254 (there...
Gregory VII from Capua on October 14, 1073 to the Sardinian judges Orzocco of Cagliari, Orzocco d'Arborea, Marianus of Torres and Constantine of Gallura; however...
include the Ibelins. Nevertheless, the law––the Assizesof Jerusalem––required that the monarch be a resident of the kingdom. Frederick's first royal decree...
behalf of Frederick, whose son Conrad II was king. His rights were generally recognised but his personal authority was much circumscribed by the Assizes and...
(1997, pp. 17–18). State Archives of Avellino, Court ofAssizes, b. 38; in Edoardo Spagnuolo (1997, p. 18) State Archives of Avellino, Grand Criminal Court...
of the House of Babenberg, with the County Palatine of the Rhine (belonging to the Holy Roman Empire). Summer – King Roger II promulgates the Assizes...
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