# Robert I of Capua

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**Robert I** (born c. 1080 – died 1120), was count of [Aversa](/source/Aversa) and [prince of Capua](/source/Prince_of_Capua) from 1106, on the death of his elder and heirless brother [Richard II of Capua](/source/Richard_II_of_Capua). Robert was the second eldest son of [Jordan I of Capua](/source/Jordan_I_of_Capua) and [Gaitelgrima](/source/Gaitelgrima%2C_daughter_of_Guaimar_IV), daughter of [Guaimar IV of Salerno](/source/Guaimar_IV_of_Salerno).

He tried to be the papal protector as his father and grandfather had been and sent three hundred knights to rescue [Pope Paschal II](/source/Pope_Paschal_II) and his sixteen [cardinals](/source/Cardinal_(Catholicism)) during their imprisonment by [Emperor Henry V](/source/Emperor_Henry_V) in 1111. However, his troops were turned back by the [count of Tusculum](/source/Count_of_Tusculum), [Ptolemy I](/source/Ptolemy_I_of_Tusculum), and never made it to their goal.

In 1114, he and [Jordan of Ariano](/source/Jordan_of_Ariano) assaulted the papal principality of [Benevento](/source/Benevento), but the [Archbishop Landulf II](/source/Landulf_II%2C_Archbishop_of_Benevento) made peace with them.

In 1117, Paschal II fled to him and he hosted Paschal's successor, [Gelasius II](/source/Gelasius_II), later in 1118, even escorting him back to [Rome](/source/Rome) with his army.

Though he did not acknowledge the [Apulian](/source/Apulia) suzerainty which his brother had been forced to accept, he was nonetheless a petty secondary power in the [Mezzogiorno](/source/Mezzogiorno). He died in 1120, leaving a son and successor in the infant [Richard III](/source/Richard_III_of_Capua). A daughter of his, whose name has been lost, was married to King [Stephen II of Hungary](/source/Stephen_II_of_Hungary) in the same year.

## References

- [Norwich, John Julius](/source/John_Julius_Norwich). *The Normans in the South 1016-1130*. Longmans: [London](/source/London), 1967.

Preceded by Richard II Prince of Capua Count of Aversa 1106–1120 Succeeded by Richard III

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