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L’aristocrazia comitale abruzzese e i Normanni. Forme di assimilazione culturale
Abstract The establishment of the northern border of the Kingdom of Sicily was the result of two factors: on the one hand, military action completed in just four years, and on the other the outcome of a longer confrontation between the Normans and the Abruzzi that lasted almost a century. The region belonged to the Duchy of Spoleto, and was ruled by two families, the Lombard Attonids in the Adriatic counties and the Franks Berardenghi in the Apennine counties. The former was affected by the northern expansion of the Apulian Normans, who established the two counties of Loreto and Manoppello, and continued to rule the northernmost county, that of Aprutio. The latter resisted all forms of conquest until 1143–1144. Resistance to the occupation led to the emergence of certain lines descended from the Berardenghi, who led the opposition, such as the counts of Celano and Collepietro-Palearia. However, relations between the Normans and the local nobility were not always conflictual. During the period between the first invasion and the establishment of the kingdom (1061–1140), certain cultural aspects of the Abruzzi aristocracy changed from the midtenth century, particularly in the areas of power management practices, onomastics, and castle construction techniques. Some of these changes were clearly due to the need to adapt to models that offered greater military effectiveness, others were the result of processes that began before the conquest and speeded up with the Norman invasion.
