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Jordan II (
Italian:
Giordano) (c. 1080 –
19 December 1127), third-born son of
Jordan I of Capua and
Gaitelgrima, was the second to last
count of Aversa and
prince of Capua from
10 June 1120 to his death. By his time, the once-great
principality of Capua, which had served as a counterpoise to the power of the
Hauteville duchy of
Apulia, was a small state with little influence or power and, technically at least, a vassal of Apulia, though he did homage to
Pope Callistus II in the year of his accession.
He was the youngest of three brothers and so didn't expect to inherit. He fought with the troops of his great uncle
Roger I of Sicily and became a vassal of his cousin
Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia, holding the lordship of
Nocera, whereat was built the great castle so important to his son's later fortunes. However, when his elder brother died in 1120, leaving only an infant son,
Richard III, who died within a few months under Jordan's
regency, he was the only candidate. Contemporary records don't record any details about this Richard's death, though the fact that Jordan stood much to gain and had the means to dispose of his nephew hasn't been missed by modern historians. He was anointed prince on
4 July. His reign was uneventful, however. He spent much endowing monasteries within his domains. He gave the chapel of S. Fede to the cathedral of Aversa and the castle of Pico to the great
Montecassino. He also gave liberally to the
bishop of Pozzuoli and is the last prince recorded in the Cassinese
necrology. He left a son of ill-repute,
Robert, who would lose the principality to the Hautevilles permanently, to succeed him.
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