Earning IV and Opulent Civitas

The Duchy and then the Lombard Principality of Salerno lasted three centuries, and after the founder Arechi II, the major prince was certainly Guaimario IV.

His dynasty was born from Guaiferius who took power in the 9th century and then transmitted it to his son Guaimario, who built a new palace far from the sea, the Palazzo San Massimo. One of his descendants is the Guaimario IV, which extended the principality by unifying almost all the Peninsular Mezzogiorno of Italy, making Salerno the capital of a vast principality, which departed from Gaeta and extended to the whole of Calabria, including also Amalfi, the Maritime Republic always enemy of Salerno. And it was precisely a conjure of amphibians who killed Prince Guaimario, who was revenged by his brother Guido, who then will bring to the throne the son of the dead prince, Gisulph II.

On a coin coin coin coin coin minted by Gisulfo, we read the motto “Opulenta Civitas”, which defines the richness of the city, center in those years of the Medical School that will give it world fame. But Guaimario IV, which so important gave Salerno, also decreed the end. The daughter Sichelgaita was married to a Norman knight, that Roberto the Guiscardo who will turn off the brother-in-law and put an end to the Lombard rule, however keeping the capital in Salerno in his new palace: Castel Terracena.