Two papers in 1095 and 1099, preserved in the Archives of the Archbishop of Chieti, for the first time transcribed and translated in this text, allow the reconstruction of the early conquests of the Normans in the lower valley of the Pescara. The churches and the parish of Aterno, the "silva Sambuceti" and the castle of Furka (from today's San Giovanni Teatino), is donated by Count Robert of Loritello to Ranulf bishop of Chieti, who ruled the diocese of Chieti 1097 to 1105.
Just two decades after the Battle of Ortona (1075) in which the accounts of Chieti Attonidi had been defeated, Robert of Loritello, nephew of Robert Guiscard, is the master of Abruzzo Adriatic.
Behind the usual medieval donation as we are faced with real policies to structure a transaction territory recently taken from the accounts Attonidi of Chieti and the native noble class.
documents while focusing on the ancient town of "castellum Furca" at the current center of San Giovanni and Teatino Sambuceto have more general and provide valuable information on an era in the history of the Abruzzi, in some ways still obscure and little studied, which results in the region since Charlemagne had gravitated towards north-central Italy, is positioned in the Norman kingdom of Sicily.
In this perspective, the text, as Laurent Feller said in the introduction, is an attempt to "how you can steal a territory through its history, and through archival research, to help those that he riapproprino inhabiting that territory, you live and live. "
Simon Longo
Sambuceti SILVA (1095-1099)
The Norman conquest of the lower valley of the Pescara
Introducing Laurent Feller
Editions Solfanelli, Chieti 2008
[ISBN-978-88-89756-37- 9]
pp 128 - € 12.00
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