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Loritello was an
Italo-Norman county along the
Adriatic north of the
Gargano. It was carved out of the eastern seaboard of the
Principality of Benevento following the
Battle of Civitate in 1053 by members of the
Hauteville family. The last Count of Loritello died in 1184 and the title was never revived.
Geoffrey of Hauteville, a younger brother of
Humphrey,
Count of Apulia, began the conquest of what would become Loritello when he attacked the
Lombard county of
Larino and captured the castle of
Morrone in
Samnium Guillamatum. In 1061, Geoffrey's son
Robert too the title
primo comiti de Loritello: first count of Loritello. Robert continued expanding his county by conquering the county of Teate (modern
Chieti), with which he invested his brother
Drogo, and attacking
Ortona, which was to become the chief objective of the count's latter career. Robert was at odds with the church, whose
Papal States neighboured Loritello. In 1080, Robert counted men, both Lombard and Norman, as far as the river
Pescara as his vassals and
Pope Gregory VII, concluding a truce with Robert's overlord,
Robert Guiscard, recognised Loritello as Robert's and requested that papal lands be treated with respect.
In the early twelfth century, Loritello was extended across the
Fortore to include
Bovino and
Dragonara. Robert' successors,
Robert II and
William, allied themselves with the Church and the
Empire and opposed their own overlords, for which reasons Loritello was confiscated. It remained a part of the
royal demesne of the
Kingdom of Sicily until
William the Bad granted it to
Robert of Bassunvilla in 1154.
Under Robert III, Loritello enjoined near complete autonomy from royal officials and the counts retained the right to administer justic (
justiciaria). The power of the county peaked during the regency of
William the Good, but afterwards declined and when Robert III died in 1184, the county wasn't regranted.
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