A flourishing period of Montecassino had followed…
884 CE
A flourishing period of Montecassino had followed its reestablishment in 718 by Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards.
A donation of Gisulf II of Benevento in 774 had created the Terra Sancti Benedicti, the secular lands of the abbacy, which were subject to the abbot and nobody else save the Pope.
Thus, the monastery became the capital of a state comprising a compact and strategic region between the Lombard principality of Benevento and the imperial city-states of the coast (Naples, Gaeta, and Amalfi).
Saracens sack Montecassino in 884, then burn it down; Abbot Bertharius is killed during the attack.
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