Gaetani Docibile

• Preferred Name: Gaetani Docibile^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Conde de Ceccanio in Ceccanio, Italia at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.3
  
• Clase Social: with note: Description: Patricio Romano
  
• Birth: 840 in Gaeta, Latina, Lazio, Italia at LATI: N1.2109 LONG: E3.5716
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Conde de Segui in Segui, Italia at LATI: N8.3089 LONG: E66.567
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duque de Gaeta in Gaeta, Italia at LATI: N1.2109 LONG: E3.5716
  
• Death: 907 in Gaeta, Latina, Lazio, Italia at LATI: N1.2109 LONG: E3.5716
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Conde de la Campania in Campania, Italia at LATI: N0.84 LONG: E4.93
  
• Occupation: Segundo Cónsul de Ipata
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duque de Fondi y Traeto, títulos por el Papa Juan VII por su eficaz intervención en la guerra contra los sarracenos que amenazaban con invadir Roma
  
• Occupation: Quinto Cónsul de Gaeta
  
• FSID: LCZ6-BGJ
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SOUTHERN%20ITALY,%20PRE-NORMAN.htm#IoannesIGaetaA, as of 11/17/2014
  DOCIBILIS [I], son of --- (-after 906). Lord [prefect/hypatos] of Gaeta. He took control of the city of Gaeta before Oct 867, the date of a charter which references "temporibus domni Docibili magnifico et prefecturio"[2318]. Gaeta was among the states in league with the Saracens when they were blockading Rome in 876[2319]. In the late 870s, Pope John VIII transferred the papal patrimonies of Fondi and Traetto to Docibilis and his son Ioannes, in return for breaking their pact with the Saracens[2320]. The Pope confiscated Traetto in [880/81] and gave it to Pandenolf of Capua, but restored it to Docibilis after Pandenolf began attacking Gaetan territory across the River Garigliano[2321]. He was referred to as hypatos in 890[2322]. The testament of "Docibilis ypatus civitatis istius Gaietane" is dated 906, and names his wife (and her father) three sons and four daughters[2323].
  
  m ([after 867]) MATRONA, daughter of BONUS & his wife ---. The testament of "Docibilis ypatus civitatis istius Gaietane", dated 906, names his wife (and her father) and his children (in order) "Bona, Maria, Euphemia, Jean, Léon, Anatole, Megalu"[2324]. Assuming that Matrona was a member of the previous ruling family, this marriage can be dated to 867, on the assumption that it was arranged by Dociblis in order to consolidate his position after he assumed control in Gaeta.
  
  Docibilis [I] & his wife had seven children:
  1. BONA . m [BENEDETTO, son of IOANNES & his wife --- (-after Oct 909).
  2. MARIA . m IOANNES, son of --- (-before Oct 918).
  3. EUFIMIA (-after 924). m STEPHANUS of Naples, son of GREGORIUS IV Duke of Naples & his wife --- (-after 924).
  4. IOANNES [I] (-after Jun 933). He succeeded his father as Lord [prefect/hypatos] of Gaeta.
  5. LEO (-before Jan 944).
  6. ANATOLIUS . He was recorded with the title Duke of Terracina in 906 and 924[2340].
  7. MEGALU (-[906/24]). m RODIPERTO gastald d´Aquino, son of --- (-[946/48]).
  
  ** from Wikipedia listing for Docibilis I of Gaeta, as of 11/17/2014
  Docibilis I (Italian: Docibile; died before 914) was the Hypatus of Gaeta from 867 until his death.
  
  The sudden disappearance of the co-hypati Constantine and Marinus I after 866 strongly suggests that perhaps Docibilis' assumption of power had been violent. He is first cited as a prefecturius and then as hypatus from 877, when he followed his predecessor's example and associated his son John with him.
  
  In his first years in office, he was faced with the Saracen menace and he fell into their hands. After being liberated by Amalfi, he made peace with the Saracens and was excommunicated by Pope John VIII. In 876, the pope was down in the Mezzogiorno recruiting the princes of Capua and Salerno for the war with the Moslems. Docibilis met the pope at Traetto, but could not come to terms. The pope then interfered in the Capuan succession on the death (879) of Landulf II to impose Pandenulf over Lando in return for Pandenulf attacking Docibilis. Formia was captured and Docibilis called up some Saracen mercenaries from Agropoli. He met the pope at Gaeta itself and made peace. Together they besieged the Saracen fortress on the Garigliano.
  
  After the pope's death, he turned around and attacked Capua, according to Erchempert, with Saracen mercenaries in 900 and 903. He then began to turn and form alliances with the Lombard rulers, marrying his daughter Megalu to Rodgipert of Aquino and Euphemia to the prefect of Naples. Docibilis appears for the last time in 906 and may have died then, though it is only certain that his is dead by 914. His long career was the golden age of Gaeta in Dark Ages. He began construction on the great palace whose ruins still stand in the city and he spent profusely on churches and ecclesiastic endowments for the sake of his soul. He was a warrior-prince as well, whose quarrels with all his neighbours, Moslem and Christian, Lombard and Greek, ecclesiastic and secular, fill the chronicles of the age, especially Erchempert's. For this, it is likely that after 906, he was either dead or retired.
  
  By his wife Matrona, he had two other sons besides John, Leo and Anatolio, whom he made duke of Terracina. He had two other daughters besides Megalu and Euphemia: Bona and Maria. John succeeded him and immediately associated his son and his father's namesake, Docibilis II, in the duchy. It is just possible that all three were associated together, but it cannot be proven.
  
  Sources
  Caravale, Mario (ed). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XL Di Fausto – Donadoni. Rome, 1991.
  
  === #Générale# Attesté en 867 où il tient sa ===
  #Générale# Attesté en 867 où il tient sa cour à Gaete.
  
  === #Générale# Attesté en 867 où il tient s ===
  #Générale# Attesté en 867 où il tient sa cour à Gaete.

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