Ricardo, signore de Chiaromonte

Il C. e suo fratello Riccardo si unirono allora al duca Rainolfo di Puglia, il quale era alleato di Lotario, e combatterono valorosamente contro Ruggero II. Quest'ultimo riuscì a far prigioniero Riccardo e, dopo aver definitivamente domato la rivolta, lo fece giustiziare nell'ottobre 1139.

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Treccani's genealogical reconstruction does not conflict with the papers presented by MedLands, which nevertheless hypothesizes a first generation of brothers and sisters:

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b) RICCARDO di Chiaromonte (-executed Bari Oct 1139). "Albereda Colubrari Pollicorique domina" donated the church of San Nicola Peratico to Cava, for the souls of "Roberti Guiscardi ducis…bone memorie viri, Dominique Boamundi, nec non Rogerii de Pomareda…mei quondam viri, Dominique Ugonis Clarimontis…dominique Alexandri Clarimontis suique fratris domini Riccardi meorum…nepotum", by charter dated Jul 1122[20]. "Alexandro de Claromonte et Riccardo fratre meo" confirmed the donation of the church of Santa Maria di Scanzana to the monastery of San Anastasio di Carbone by "beatæ memoriæ Riccardi Sinescalci et dominæ Alberedæ amitæ nostræ et Petri Boiti et clarissimi dynastæ domini Boamundi", by charter dated Sep 1125, witnessed by "Hugo filius Raneri et Comestabulus, Hugo filius Ascintini de Claromonte…"[21]. The Chronicle of Romualdo Guarna records that "Goffredus…domini Alexandri comitis filius et Riccardus Clarimontis dominus" defended Brindisi in 1133 against King Roger who had returned from Sicily in May 1133 to recapture the citadel[22]. The Romoaldi Annales record that "Riccardus…de Claromonte" was killed at Bari, dated to Oct 1139, and "Alexander…frater eius" retreated "in Romaniam"[23].