This is as list of the
rulers of the Principality of Capua.
Lombard rulers of Capua
Gastalds and counts
The
gastalds (or counts) of Capua were
vassals of the
princes of Benevento until the early 840s, when Gastald Landulf began to clamour for the independence which
Salerno had recently declared. That caused a civil war in Benevento which did not cease for some ten years and by the end of the century Capua was definitively independent.
Princes
In 910, the principalities of
Benevento and Capua were united by conquest (Atenulf's) and declared inseparable. This, and the inevitable co-rule of sons and brothers, causes ceaseless confusion to any historian of the period, even more so to his readers.
- 910–943 Landulf III, co-ruled from 901 (see directly above)
- 943–961 Landulf IV the Red, co-ruled from 940 (see above)
- 961–968 Landulf V, co-ruling with his brother (perhaps to 969, see directly below), also co-ruled from 959 (see directly above)
- 961–981 Pandulf I Ironhead, co-ruling with his brother (see directly above), also co-ruled from 943 (see above), also Duke of Spoleto (from 967), Salerno (from 978), and Benevento (from 961)
In 982, the principalites were finally ripped apart by Pandulf Ironhead's division of his vast holdings and by imperial decree, but the chronology gets no less confusing.
Norman princes of Capua
These princes were of the
Drengot line and served as a counterpoise to the
House of Hauteville until it had finally lost all power. The chronology here, too, can be very confusing due to the rivalry between the Robert II and
Roger II of Sicily and his sons.
To the Kingdom of Sicily, where it became an appanage for second sons: