Duchy of Benevento
For a list of rulers of Benevento, see List of Dukes and Princes of Benevento. The Lombard Duchy of Benevento in the 8th century. The Duchy of Benevento (after 774, Principality of Benevento ) was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian peninsula, centered on Benevento, a city in Southern Italy. Being cut off from the rest of the Lombard possessions by the papal Duchy of Rome, Benevento was practically independent from the start. Only during the reigns of Grimoald I of Benevento and the kings from Liutprand on was the duchy closely tied to the kingdom. After the fall of the kingdom, however, alone of Lombard territories it remained as a rump state, and maintained its de facto independence for nearly three hundred years, though it was divided after 849. Paul the Deacon refers to Benevento as the "Samnite Duchy" ( Ducatum Samnitium ) after the region of Samnium. [1] Contents 1 Foundation 2 Expansion 3 Secundum Ticinum 4 Decline through div...
