The 13 July of 1385 dad Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano), in contrast with Charles III of Durres, king of Naples, concerning territorial possessions that the sovereign had not wanted to grant to Francesco Prignano, nephew of the pope, to escape the persecutions of the king he asked the supporters of Louis II of Anjou, French pretender to the throne of Naples. He agreed with Raimondello del Balzo Orsini e Tommaso Sanseverino, count of Montescaglioso, that, in exchange for 10000 florins and the concession of some fiefdoms (Sanseverino had the concession of Benevento, of the county of Lecce and the barony of Flumeri), they rescued him from the royal troops who besieged him in Nocera.
I Diurnals of the Duke of Monteleone, one of the chronicles of the time, they report that the pope was then taken to Buccino, castle of Count Luigi d'Alemagna, where he found hospitality for a few days, to then embark on Genoese ships at the Sele. The sources tell us precisely that:
And ali 13 de Julio messer Ramundello went to Thomase et fo in agreement with messer Thomase de ayote the Pope and drive him out of Nocera for ten milia fiorini, and so the Pope from Nocera came together and chazaro, with all that the field of Re Carlo was innate, and at the time they were so much, and portaro the Pope all the contact of vocation, et loco I placed at the top of those dece galere de genoise that hole innante Napole many days, And never a person could you know about them, And the hassle, and the Pope went for them, et messer thomase si ritorno in Calabria et messer Ramundello in Puglia, And so he would have received Benevento from Pope Urban and all the count de lecze la baronia de flomari
(Diurnal sayings of the Duke of Monteleone ..., edited by N. F. Faraglia, Naples 1895, pp. 29-30)
Other sources and chronicles instead propose different itineraries followed by the pope. The issue is still controversial.
EMANUELE CATONE
