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Florius of Camerota


Florius of Camerota (Italian: Florio da [or di] Camerota) was a royal justiciar of the Kingdom of Sicily who worked an itinerant circuit throughout the Principality of Salerno, across different local jurisdictions, between 1150 and 1189. He hailed from Camerota in the Principality, and was a nephew of Alfanus, Archbishop of Capua. He was forced into a temporary exile in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (c.1165), but the intervention of the pope restored him. He moved in the highest circles in the kingdom and in Europe, serving as a diplomat to the Kingdom of England in 1176.

In 1150, a court was held before the presence of King Roger II by Florius, fellow justiciar Lampus de Fasanella, and the chamberlain Atenulf in Salerno. Another court was held by the same officers in the same city, absent the king, in 1151. In 1158, in the castle of Capua, Florius and fellow justiciar Aimeric of Montemore adjudicated a complaint from the abbot of Santa Sofia of Benevento. Around 1166, at Aversa, Florius, with the justiciars Matthew de Venabulo and John de Valle, "performing the role of the lord king [in a] plenary and solemn court" (plenariam et sollempnem curia), restored two mills to the Diocese of Aversa. Around 1165, Florius fell from favour and was exiled to the Jerusalem. This prompted Pope Alexander III to request King Louis VII of France to intervene on Florius' behalf with King William II of Sicily and, if this failed, with the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Comnenus.


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