The long-awaited imperial army, led by Lothair …
Years: 1136 - 1136
October
The long-awaited imperial army, led by Lothair and the duke of Bavaria, Henry the Proud, descends the peninsula in 1136 to support the three rebels.
Henry, Robert, and Ranulf take a large contingent of troops to besiege the peninsular capital of the kingdom, Salerno.
Roger remains in Sicily, leaving its mainland garrisons helpless under the chancellor Robert of Selby, while even the emperor John II Comnenus sends subsidies to Lothair.
Salerno surrenders, and …
Locations
People
- Alfonso of Hauteville
- Anacletus II
- Henry X
- John II Komnenos
- Louis VI of France
- Pope Innocent II
- Ranulf II
- Robert II of Capua
- Roger II of Sicily
- Sergius VII of Naples
Groups
- Germans
- Naples, Duchy of
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Italy, Kingdom of (Holy Roman Empire)
- Pisa, (first) Republic of
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Capua, Norman Principality of
- Bavaria, Welf Duchy of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
- Italo-Normans
- Apulia and Calabria, Duchies of
- Sicily, Kingdom of
