Duchy of Amalfi

The Republic and the Duchy of Amalfi was in the 10th and 11th centuries, a de facto independent state in southern Italy with the city as the center of Amalfi. City and surrounding areas were originally part of the larger Ducatus Neapolitanus which was under a patrician, but could be released from the Byzantine suzerainty. A first Duke was elected in 958. Amalfi was then whose merchants trading in Italy and around the Mediterranean for a century dominated to an economic power before they were overtaken by the competition, for example from the city states of Pisa and Genoa. In 1073 Amalfi lost its independence and fell to the Normans. Robert Guiscard took the title dux Amalfitanorum title. Two rebellions to regaining independence (1096-1101) and (1130-1131) failed. With the sack of the city in 1135 and 1137 by Pisa ended the great era of Amalfi.

Lords of Amalfi

Prefect

  • Marinus, 839-860
  • Segius, 860
  • Maurus, 860
  • Marinus, 2nd time 866 - 870
  • Pulcharius, 866-879
  • Stephen 879-898, son of Marinus, brother of Pulcharius
  • Manso 898-914

Patricii

  • Mastalus, son Manso, 914-953 Leo, 920-931
  • John, 939-947

Dukes

  • Mastalus II, 957-958 Duke
  • Sergius I ( II ). , 958-966, usurper
  • Manso I. (II)., Whose son, 966-1004, also Prince of Salerno ( 981-983 ) Adelfer, brother Manso, 984-986 Against Duke
  • Maria Capua, his mother, 1028-1029
  • Manso II (III ), 1043-1052, 3rd time
  • Waimar II, 1047-1052, whose son, co-regent

Neapolitan Dukes

  • Venceslao Sanseverino, Conte di 3 Tricario e Chiaromontes, 1st Duca di Venosa, 1398 Duca di Amalfi;
  • Giordano Colonna, 1405 Duca di Amalfi
  • Raimondo del Balzo Orsini, 1438 Duca di Amalfi, Prince of Salerno, † 1459

1461-1583 was the Duchy of Amalfi in the hands of the Piccolomini family:

  • Antonio Todeschini Piccolomini, 1461 1st Duca di Amalfi, brother of Pope Pius III. ; ∞ Maria d' Aragona, illegitimate daughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples
  • I. Alfonso Piccolomini, † 1498, their son, Duke of Amalfi
  • Alfonso II Piccolomini, † 1584, whose son, Duke of Amalfi
  • I. Cesare Gonzaga (1530-1575), Count of Gustalla, Duke of Amalfi
  • Ferrante II Gonzaga († 1632), whose son, Earl, later Duke of Guastalla, Duke of Amalfi
  • Octavio Piccolomini (1599-1656), 1650 Imperial Prince, Duke of Amalfi
  • Enea Piccolomini († 1673 ), 1656 Imperial Prince, Duke of Amalfi
  • Antonio de Zayas y Beaumont, Duque de Amalfi ( 19th century)
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