Lavello

Lavello is a city and comune in the province of Potenza, in the area of Basilicata of southern Italy; it is positioned in the middle Ofanto valley. The area of Lavello changed into settled in prehistoric instances, as attested by findings of an Iron Age village. The city originated as a Daunian after which Roman settlement, called Forentum. It turned into already an vital stronghold throughout the Lombard rule in southern Italy, and right here became killed Sicard of Benevento. Lavello become an important Byzantine center and a bishopric seat from 1025.

Starting from 1043 Lavello become one of the twelve baronies of the Norman county of Apulia in southern Italy. The Normans rebuilt the cathedral and introduced a line of walls. The fortress became bolstered beneath their successors, the Hohenstaufen. Here King Conrad IV of Germany died in 1254. As a result of its participation in the anti-Angevine rebellion in 1268, it was burnt down by means of Charles I of Anjou in 1298.