Sicardus 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
EthnicityLombard
LocationsCalabria (officeplace);
Calabria;
Capua (Campania) (officeplace);
Capua (Campania);
Amalfi (Italy) (officeplace);
Amalfi (Italy);
Surrentum (Campania) (officeplace);
Surrentum (Campania);
Naples (Campania) (officeplace);
Naples (Campania);
Salernum (Campania);
Salernum (Campania) (officeplace)
TitlesPrinceps Langobardorum (office)
Textual SourcesConstantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history);
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Leges (legal)

Ioannes, bishop elect of the church of Naples ("electo sanctae ecclesiae Neapolitanae"), and Andreas, magister militum, were parties to a peace agreement in 836 with the Lombard prince Sicardus 1 ("Langobardorum gentis princeps"); they had authority over the ducatus of Naples, Surrentum, Amalfi and other strongholds: MGH, Leg. IV, pp. 217ff. (dated "hac quarta die mensis Iulii indictione 14"). A Lombard, Sicardus 1 was made governor of Salernum, Capua and Calabria when South Italy was divided among the Lombards: Const. Porph., DAI 27, 52ff. He is attested in local Italian sources in the first half of the ninth century; he died in 847.

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