Imperial Intervention in Italy (1130s)

Name: Imperial Intervention in Italy (1130s)
Start: 1132
End: 1137

Type Event Region Italy Time 1132–1137

In the 1130s, Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III campaigned twice in Italy: crowned emperor by Pope Innocent II in 1132–1134 and treaty with King Roger I…

Timeline

1132–1134Rome · LazioLothair III marched south to Italy at the summons of Pope Innocent II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope in Rome in 1133, and concluded the Treaty of Mignano with King Roger II of Sicily, recognizing some of his southern Italian territories.
1136–1137Salerno · CampaniaLothair III again led his army south, capturing Salerno, Capua, and other cities in an attempt to strip Roger II of his hegemony in southern Italy. However, Lothair died in December 1137 while returning north, and after the imperial army withdrew Roger quickly recovered the lost lands.

Sources

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 4: c.1024–c.1198 — David Luscombe (ed.) (2004)
Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West — Hubert Houben (2002)