Marules Vera von Falkenhausen, ''Untersuchungen über die byzantinische Herrschaft in Süditalien vom 9. bis ins 11. Jahrhundert'' (O. Harrassowitz, 1967), p. 94, notes that the rare name Marules is attested from the 10th century.André Guillou, "Production and Profits in the Byzantine Province of Italy (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries): An Expanding Society", ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'' 28 (1974), p. 108. .William J. Churchill
''The Annales Barenses and the Annales Lupi Protospatharii: Critical Edition and Commentary''
PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 1979), p. 312. (also spelled Marolos

Ferdinand Chalandon Ferdinand Chalandon (February 10, 1875 – October 31, 1921) was a French medievalist and Byzantinist. Chalandon's work remains the most substantial study of the Normans in Italy and though the details of what he wrote a hundred years ago have ...

''Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile: Tome premier''
(Paris : Alphonse Picard, 1907), pp. 174–176. or MaruliJules Gay
''L'Italie méridionale et l'empire Byzantin''
(New York: Burt Franklin, 1904), p. 526.) was the

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantin ...

catepan of Italy The Catepanate (or Catapanate) of Italy ( el, ''Katepaníkion Italías'') was a province of the Byzantine Empire from 965 until 1071. At its greatest extent, it comprised mainland Italy south of a line drawn from Monte Gargano to the Gulf of ...

in 1060/1061. Appointed by the Emperor

Constantine X Constantine X Doukas or Ducas ( el, Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας, ''Kōnstantinos X Doukas'', 1006 – 23 May 1067), was Byzantine emperor from 1059 to 1067. He was the founder and first ruling member of the Doukid dynasty. Du ...

, he arrived in Bari between 1 September 1060 and 31 August 1061, according to the '' Anonymous Chronicle of Bari''.

Ludovico Antonio Muratori Lodovico Antonio Muratori (21 October 1672 – 23 January 1750) was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books. Biography Bor ...

(ed.)
''Rerum Italicarum scriptores'', vol. V.
(Milan, 1724), p. 152: ''Mill. LXI. Ind. XIIII. ... Et Maruli Catapanus vênit in Bari''. He was the first catepan appointed after Argyros left Italy in 1058. He had been preceded in 1060 by a ''merarches'', but the latter's offensive against the

Normans The Normans ( Norman: ''Normaunds''; french: Normands; la, Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and indigenous West Franks and Gallo-Romans. T ...

had peaked before his arrival and he adopted a defensive posture. Marules was succeeded by Sirianus, who arrived in Bari between 1 September 1061 and 31 August 1062.

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