[Footnote  *: This  account  is  not  accurate.   After  the
          retreat of the  emperor  Henry II. the Normans, united under
          the command of Rainulf, had taken possession of Aversa, then
          a small castle in the duchy of Naples. They had been masters
          of it a  few  years when Pandulf IV., prince of Capua, found
          means to take  Naples  by  surprise.  Sergius, master of the
          soldiers, and head  of  the  republic,  with  the  principal
          citizens, abandoned a  city  in  which  he could not behold,
          without horror, the  establishment  of a foreign dominion he
          retired to Aversa;  and  when,  with  the  assistance of the
          Greeks and that  of  the citizens faithful to their country,
          he had collected money enough to satisfy the rapacity of the
          Norman adventurers, he  advanced at their head to attack the
          garrison of the  prince of Capua, defeated it, and reentered
          Naples.  It was  then  that  he confirmed the Normans in the
          possession of Aversa and its territory, which he raised into
          a count's fief,  and  granted  the  investiture  to Rainulf.
          Hist. des Rep. Ital. tom. i. p. 267]
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