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Sico (ca. 758 – 832)[1] was the Lombard Prince of Benevento from 817 to his own death.

Life

Before becoming the Prince of Benevento, he had been the gastald of Acerenza. On the assassination of Grimoald IV, Sico succeeded to the princely throne. He made the same empty pledges of tribute and fealty to the Emperor Louis the Pious which Grimoald had made.
Sico tried to extend the principality at the expense of Byzantium. He besieged Naples at an unknown date (perhaps c.831), but could not take the city. He did, however, remove the body of the Neapolitan patron saint, Januarius, who was originally from Benevento. It was also Sico who founded a line of rulers at Capua by bestowing that ancient fortress on Landulf I as gastald. Landulf honoured his benefactor by naming his first castle Sicopolis.

Children

When Sico died he was succeeded by his son Sicard. His daughter Itta (also spelled Ita or Itana) married Guy I, Duke of Spoleto. Sico is sometimes numbered "Sico I" and Sico of Salerno is numbered "Sico II".

References

Early Medieval Italy, p. 160, Retrieved 21 Oct 2009.

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SICO, son of --- ([769/72]-Oct [830/32]). No information has been found relating to the parentage of Sico. His birth date is estimated from an Epitaphium Grimoaldi which records that he died aged 60[157]. The Chronicon Salernitanum records that "Sico…cum uxorem et filiis et cunota sua" left the city of Spoleto to travel to Constantinople, but stayed at Benevento with "princeps Grimoalt"[158]. Gastald of Acerenza. Erchempert names "Sico Agerentinus castaldus" among the conspirators against Prince Grimoald IV[159]. The Annales Beneventani record that he succeeded in 817 as SICO I Prince of Benevento[160]. The dating clause of a charter dated 11 Aug 818, under which "Leo filius quondam Piperati" donated property to Cava monastery, refers to the second year of "domnis nostri Siconi princeps Beneventane provincie"[161]. He raided Naples and captured the body of San Gennaro, the patron saint of the city[162]. The Annales Beneventani record that Sico died in 832[163], but the charter dated May 835, quoted below, refers to the fifth year of his son "domni nostri Sichardi…Beneventane provincie princeps"[164]. According to the Catalogus Principum Salerni, "Syco Spoletinus" was Count of Salerno for 15 years 8 months[165]. The Chronicon Salernitanum records that "Sico princeps" arranged the marriages of "suas filias Beneventanis viros", that "unam ex eis…Sikelenda" married "Azoni filio", another "Ursi", and a third "iuveni Radelmundus", adding that the husbands of the others were not remembered[166].

m ---. The name of Prince Sico's wife is not known.

Prince Sico & his wife had seven or more children: