The Drengots were a Norman family of mercenaries, one of the first to head to Southern Italy to fight in the service of the Lombards. They became the most prominent family after the Hautevilles.
The Drengots were a Norman family of mercenaries, one of the first to head to Southern Italy to fight in the service of the Lombards. They became the...
In 1030 he became the first count of Aversa. He was a member of the Drengotfamily. When Rainulf was exiled by Richard II of Normandy for a violent criminal...
Rudolph Drengot was one of the Drengotfamily of Norman adventureres who came to Southern Italy with his brothers, Gilbert, Asclettin, Osmond, and Ranulf...
Gargano. Another story involves the exile of a group of brothers from the Drengotfamily. One of the brothers, Osmund (according to Orderic Vitalis) or Gilbert...
Then Rainulf Drengot, from the same family, received the county of Aversa from Duke Sergius IV of Naples in 1030. The Hauteville family achieved princely...
Osmond Drengot (c. 985 – 1 October 1018) was one of the first Norman adventurers in the Mezzogiorno. He was the son of a petty, but rich, lord of Carreaux...
and Caiazzo, and duke of Apulia. He was a member of the Italo-Norman Drengotfamily which dominated the Principality of Capua for most of the century between...
Guiscard's control at this point were the Principality of Capua, held by the Drengotfamily, the Duchy of Naples and the Principality of Benevento. Robert decided...
Ranulf I was the youngest son of Count Asclettin of Acerenza, of the Drengotfamily of the Norman nobility. At the invitation of Abbot Desiderius, Ranulf...
of the Italo-Norman nobility. He belonged to a cadet branch of the Drengotfamily; the senior line had ruled the Principality of Capua since 1058. Robert's...
and Rainulf Drengot, Count of Aversa, and offered both an alliance. With the unification of the Norman families of Altavilla and Drengot, Guaimar gave...
Capua after his father conquered the principality from the rival Norman Drengotfamily. He was also the first Norman duke of Naples after the duchy fell vacant...
cousin of Prince Robert II of Capua, as both belonged to the extended Drengotfamily. He had two sons: Andrew, who succeeded him at Rupecanina, and Roger...
Count Jonathan I of Carinola. Richard was thus a member of the extended Drengotfamily. Duke Jonathan, who preceded Richard at Gaeta, may have been the son...
Italian Gionata; died July 1121), a member of a cadet branch of the Drengotfamily, was the Duke of Gaeta from 1113 until his death. He is known from the...
long before appointing the chiefest of his Norman mercenaries, Ranulf Drengot, as duke. On Ranulf's death, however, the Gaetans elected their own Lombard...
and Benevento. Only the Duchy of Gaeta remains out of his grasp. Rainulf Drengot, head of a mercenary band of Norman knights, is approached by Duke John...
Ludovico Abenavoli Drengot : uno dei tredici campioni italiani della disfida [The challenge of Barletta : the Norman Ludovico Abenavoli Drengot : one of the...
in response to requests for help made by fellow Normans under Rainulf Drengot, count of Aversa. Between 1038 and 1040, he and other Normans fought in...
Duke of Sorrento. He then received the homage of the defecting Rainulf Drengot, formerly a vassal of Pandulf. Thus, Guaimar won the support of the Normans...
adventurers in the service of Yusuf II, the Almohad Caliph of Morocco. Rainulf Drengot 1016–1045 Norman adventurer and mercenary in southern Italy. Robert Guiscard...
Hauteville, as well as the Count of Aversa, Richard Drengot, and others of the de Hauteville family, amongst which was Robert, later known under the name...
Richard Drengot (c. 1025 – died 1078) was the count of Aversa (1049–1078), prince of Capua (1058–1078, as Richard I) and duke of Gaeta (1064–1078). Richard...
Gargano to intercept some Norman pilgrims. There he petitioned Rainulf Drengot and a band of Norman exiles to aid in his rebellion, assuring them of the...
August 1051. In his early years in Lavello, he employed a young Richard Drengot, who was later to serve him against the pope. In 1053, Humphrey received...
the former. Other newly arrived Normans also gave him trouble: Richard Drengot attacked him and was captured. Only the intervention of Guaimar could secure...
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