Count Rainaldo d'Aquino

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Rainaldo, figlio di Landone IV ultimo conte longobardo di Aquino, marito di Cecilia de Medania, ottenne i feudi di Roccasecca, in Isola del Liri, in Cantalupo (fraz. di Colle S. Magno), in Valle del Corno, la terza parte di Aquino.

Landolfo, figlio di Pandolfo (fratello del qui citato Rainaldo), ottenne i feudi di Settefrati, l'ottava parte di Aquino; divenne, inoltre, feudatario di Gionata, conte di Conza e di Carinola, per i feudi di Alvito, Campoli Appennino e per la quarta parte di Aquino.

Signore di Roccasecca, Signore d'Aquino ((per_1/3)), Signore di Isoletta, Conte d'Aquino (1171-1174)

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2. RINALDO [I] d’Aquino (-after [1168]). “Adenolfo, Landolfo e Landone” sons of Pandolfo d’Aquino, with “loro zio paterno Rinaldo I”, exchanged “alcune castella nella Campagna di Roma” with Pope Adrian IV by charter dated 1157[376]. The "Catalogus Baronum", dated to [1168], records "Raynaldus de Aquino" holding "de Domino Rege in demanio Roccam Siccam [Roccasecca]…et Casali Cantalupi et tertiam partem Aquini" in "domini de Aquino", with "feudum III militum et cum augmento…milites XVIII"[377].

[m firstly ---. No direct evidence has been found to indicate that Rinaldo [I] married twice. However, this possibility is raised by the difference in age between his son Riccardo (birth estimated to [1130/40]%29 and daughter Sibilla (born [before 1165]), as shown below. While not biologically impossible that the two siblings shared the same mother, the absence of references to intervening children, as well as the reduced life expectancy in medieval times compared with the present day, suggest that this would have been unusual in the present case.]

m [secondly] ---. The name of Rinaldo´s [second] wife is not known. Many unsourced internet-based “genealogies” state that Rinaldo [I] d’Aquino married “Cecilia di Medania, daughter of Robert de Medania Conte di Buonalbergo & his wife Judith ---“. The primary source which confirms this information has not been identified. Scandone, in his detailed studies of the Aquino family in 1901/1903 does not mention the marriage, which suggests that speculation about the connection may have first been proposed after that date, although the origin of the theory has not been traced. If it is correct that Cecilia´s existence is speculative, the purpose may have been to explain (1) references to her daughter as “Sibilla di Medania” and (2) the installation of Rinaldo´s son Riccardo as conti di Acerra. If these represent the premises on which the theory was based, neither passes muster as will be explained. Concerning the first point, no primary source has yet been identified which names Rinaldo´s daughter as “di Medania”. The earliest identified secondary source reference to “Sibilla di Medania” is Francesco Capecelatro´s 1640 history of Naples[378]. The book includes no primary source citation nor any reference to the origin of the name. The exact wording of Capecelatro´s passage has been copied by numerous subsequent works ever since[379]. The suspicion is that Sibilla was never referred to as “di Medania” during her lifetime and that the reference represents an unreliable reflection of history. On the second point, the Italian Wikipedia (without citing any sources to justify its statements) says that the county of Acerra, previously held by Ruggiero di Medania Conte di Buonalbergo, passed to Riccardo d’Aquino as a result of his father´s marriage to “Cecilia di Medania” who would have been Ruggiero´s sister[380]. This is pure speculation, and the assumption that the county must have passed by inheritance is unsustainable: numerous examples are found in the 12th century kingdom of Sicily/Naples where shifting loyalties among the nobility appear to have triggered changes in comital appointments, including Avellino, Aversa, Conversano, Gravina and Molise, rather than transfer by inheritance. In any case, the search for an “inheritance” explanation ceases to be relevant if Rinaldo [I]´s son Riccardo was born to an earlier wife (as suggested above) in relation to whom no connection with “Medania” is asserted. In conclusion, until more information comes to light, the existence of this “Cecilia di Medania” should be treated with caution.

Rinaldo [I] & his [first] wife had [one child]:  

Rinaldo [I] & his [second] wife had [one child]: