Tag: Capua

• 139 – King Alphonse of Naples (1436 – 1458)

  We go back a little to see how Alphonse V of Aragon actually got onto the throne of Naples and what he had to put up with once he got there dealing with Milan, Venice, Genoa and Florence, before a rather unprecedented alliance in 1454 under the “Italic League” when everyone became friends after the…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Alphonse V, Anjou, Balears, Capua, Corsica, France, Francesco Sforza, Gaeta, Genoa, Malatesta, Milan, Naples, Rimini, Savoy, Sforza, Sicily, Venice, Visconti

• 053 – Guelfs, Ghibellines and Normans with big ideas

  1122 – 1130 We finally get back to the chronological narration of Italian history, popping in to see a new Holy Roman Emperor, a new pope, or couple of popes and catch up with the ambitious Normans

  A History of Italy

  May 29, 2019

  Anacletus II, Bavaria, Benevento, Calabria, Calixtus II, Capua, Ghibelline, Guelf, hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, Honorius II, Innocent II, Lothar, Norman, Podcast, Puglia, Robert Guiscard, Roger Borsa, Roger Hauteville, Roger II, Rome, Sicily, Weibling, Welf

• 033 – Here come the Normans, there goes the neighbourhood

  We take a look at the arrival of the Normans in Southern Italy at the start of the XI century and follow their participation in the anti-Byzantines rebellions of the 1040’s.

  A History of Italy

  October 27, 2018

  Argiro, Atenulf, Aversa, Bari, Benvento, Byzantium, Capua, Constantinople, Drogo Hauteville, Gargano, Hauteville, Melo, Nalpes, Normans, Podcast, Rainulf Drengot, Salerno, St. Michael, William Ironarm

• 025 – Ottonian Italy

  966 – 973 Otto I of Germany continues to consolidate his hold over Italy, attempting to go all the way south and dislodge the remaining Byzantine presence, meanwhile setting up his son with a Byzantine princess, Theophanu.

  A History of Italy

  August 4, 2018

  Arab, Benevento, Byzantine, Capua, Otto I, Otto II, Pandolfo Ironhead, Podcast, Rome, Salerno, Spoleto, Theophanu