Cesina family

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Cesina
Country Principality of Benevento
Principality of Capua
Principality of Salerno
Bandiera del Regno di Sicilia 4.svg  Kingdom of Sicily
Bandera de Napoles - Trastamara.svg  Kingdom of Naples
Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816).svg  Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg  Kingdom of Italy
Current regionFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Europe.svg  European Union
Place of origin Kingdom of the Lombards
Duchy of Benevento
Founded665;1359 years ago (665)
Connected families Frezza

The Cesina family is an Italian family of Roman-Lombard origin.

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Origins

The Cesina family takes its surname from the fiefdom, being vassals of the Lombard dukes of Duchy of Benevento.
Initially, the fiefdom was a wooded area designated for woodcutting and later converted into an agricultural field, formed in 664 as a reward to the vassal by the Lombard king Grimoald, King of Italy. [1] [2]

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A map of Italy, showing the Principality of Capua, as it appeared in 1000
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Political map of Southern Italy in 1112
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Political map of Southern Italy in 1154

The fiefdom Cesina was originally included in the gastaldate of Aquino, [3] which controlled the entire territory of Cassino, and it had considerable strategic importance in guarding the borders of the Duchy of Benevento. The vassals preserved the fief for the dukes and then princes of Benevento, until 883, when the territory was devastated from the arrival of the Saracens, who came from Agropoli at the invitation of Docibilis I, Duke of Gaeta, who destroyed the Abbey of Montecassino. The survivors took refuge in Presenzano. After the Battle of Garigliano, in 915, the fiefdom was included to the Principality of Capua.

In 1019, the fiefdom was claimed by Abbot of Montecassino Atenulf [4] who requested its restitution from his brother, the Lombard prince Pandulf IV of Capua. [5] [6]
With the end of the Lombard domains in Italy in 1077, conquered by the Normans, under the leadership of the famous Robert Guiscard, and added to their County of Sicily, the fiefdom entered the possession of the Di Sangro family, heirs of the Counts of Marsi. [7]

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A map of Italy in 1494
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A map of Italy in 1870

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  2. ↑ Abate Alessandro di Meo (1819). Annali Critico-Diplomatici Del Regno Di Napoli Della Mezzana Età: Che contiene gl'indici, monastico, e topografico, Tomo 12. Napoli: Stamperia Simoniana. p. 520. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "AQUINO". treccani.it. treccani.it. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "ATENOLFO". treccani.it. treccani.it. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "MONTECASSINO". treccani.it. treccani.it. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  6. ↑ Teano Sidicino antico e moderno del decano Michele Broccoli. Napoli. 1822.
  7. ↑ Memorie delle Famiglie Nobili delle Province Meridionali d'Italia (Volume 3). Berardo Candida Gonzaga, Count. 1876. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  8. ↑ "Soprintendenza Archivistica della Sicilia Archivio di Stato di Palermo Segretari del Regno Ramo Protonotaro1500-1794707 bb., voll.n. 27 E" (PDF). saassipa.beniculturali.it. Soprintendenza Archivistica della Sicilia – Archivio di Stato. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Cesina Giovanni Giacomo, nato a Bosco - Principato Citra, facoltà : Legge, 1724". archiviodistatonapoli.it. archiviodistatonapoli.it. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
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