Note 21 — PART I HIS EXPLOITS AT HOME AND ABROAD
A. J. (Arthur James) Grant translation
The Duchy of Beneventum embraced a large part of the Italian peninsula south of Rome. It had been for a long time connected, in loose feudal dependence, with the Lombard monarchy of North Italy, and, since that had been overwhelmed and annexed by Charles, was now regarded as a dependency of the Carolingian monarchy.