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in the

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. Pandulf was the youngest son of Prince

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and his second wife

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. He was born in the 1010s. The death of his elder half-brother, Prince John (III), in 1018 allowed him to inherit the lordship of Capaccio. A document of 1092 from the abbey of

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, records how the division of the principality of Guaimar III was definitively effected between his sons in 1042, with the eldest,

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, taking Salerno, his second son

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taking Sorrento and Pandulf left with Capaccio. Pandulf was married to Theodora, daughter of Count Gregory II of Tusculum and thus niece of Pope

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. They had five sons—Gregory, John, Guaimar, Gisulf and Guy—and at least one daughter, Sichelgarda or Sichelgaita.For a family tree, see Drell, pp. 218–19. There is some discrepancy as to how many times, and to whom, the latter was married. Her recorded husbands are the

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Ascittinus of Sicigiano, and Roger of San Severino. She may have had an earlier marriage to Geoffrey of Medania. Pandulf's descendants were numerous, among them were the Lombard and Norman lords of Trentenaria,

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, Fasanella, Novi and San Severino. In July 1047, Bishop Amatus of Pesto exempted a church built and owned by Pandulf in Capaccio from episcopal authority, recognised its right to perform baptisms and confirmed Pandulf's right to choose whether the clergy of the church were

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. In return for these rights in his church, Pandulf paid the bishop six pounds of silver. Pandulf also owned the monastery of Saint Sophia in Salerno itself. After his death, it reverted to a church and was in ruins when acquired by La Trinità della Cava in 1100.Loud 2007, p. 58. Pandulf was assassinated alongside his brother Guaimar IV in June 1052. (The exact date is given variously as 2, 3 or 4 June.) They were the victims of a conspiracy among the Salernitan cavalry, provoked by the counts of Teano, in favour of Pandulf III. Graham Loud, ''The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest'' (Routledge, 2000), p. 117.

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