siege, medieval

Siege of Naples

Name: Siege of Naples
Location: Naples, Italy

Siege of Naples was a siege conducted in April 1191 at Naples, in what is now Italy. The recorded result: Decisive Sicilian victory.

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Liber ad honorem Augusti Emperor Henry VI. besieging Naples (1191) Folio ?. Petrus de Ebulo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

FoughtApril 1191

WhereNaples, Italy40.833N, 14.250E

OutcomeDecisive Sicilian victory

BelligerentsKingdom of SicilyagainstHoly Roman Empire

Record

Date	April 1191 (month precision) to July 1191
Place	Naples, Italy 40.833N, 14.250E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Casualties and losses		Hundreds
Commanders	Richard of Acerra Nicholas of Ajello Aligerno Cottone Margaritus of Brindisi	Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, Duke of Bohemia Philip I (archbishop of Cologne) Henry III Testa Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Naples AD 542, same recorded site
Siege of Naples AD 536, same recorded site
Siege of Naples 1528, same recorded site
Bombing of Naples in World War II 1940, same recorded site
Bombing of Naples 1918, same recorded site

Contested ground: this site was fought over 12 times between 327 BC and 1940.

Elsewhere in 1191

Siege of Naples is one of 459 engagements of the 12th century in the atlas and one of 1,038 in present-day Italy.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q65121402, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Naples (1191), revision 1370743872, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.