Diferencia entre revisiones de «Arechis II»

Arechis continuó intentando agrandar su territorio mediante pequeñas escaramuzas a costa del vecino [[ducado de Nápoles]], perteneciente a los bizantinos. Sin embargo en la siguiente década, [[780]], Arechis parece que alcanzó un acuerdo con el duque de Nápoles sellado en un documento denominado 'pactum'. Quizá la intención de este acuerdo era ahorrar esfuerzos a Benevento para poder hacer frente al siempre amenazante Imperio franco.

 

 

{{cita|He [Charlemagne] afterwards entered Italy in person with his army [787], and passed through Rome to Capua, a city in Campania, where he pitched his camp and threatened the Beneventans with hostilities unless they should submit themselves to him. Their duke, Aragis, escaped the danger by sending his two sons, Rumold and Grimold, with a great sum of money to meet the King, begging him to accept them as hostages, and promising for himself and his people compliance with all the King's commands, on the single condition that his personal attendance should not be required. The King took the welfare of the people into account rather than the stubborn disposition of the Duke, accepted the proffered hostages, and released him from the obligation to appear before him in consideration of his handsome gift. He retained the younger son only as hostage, and sent the elder back to his father, and returned to Rome, leaving commissioners with Aragis to exact the oath of allegiance, and administer it to the Beneventans. He stayed in Rome several days in order to pay his devotions at the holy places, and then came back to Gaul [787].}}