Bayan yaƙin Civitate, Normans sun fara cin nasarar gabar Adriatic na Benevento. Geoffrey na Hauteville, ɗan'uwan Hauteville counts na Melfi, ya ci lardin Lombard na Larino kuma ya mamaye castle Morrone a yankin Samnium-Guillamatum. Dan Geoffrey, Robert, ya haɗu da waɗannan nasarorin a cikin gundumar, Loritello, a cikin 1061 kuma ya ci gaba da faɗaɗa cikin Lombard Abruzzo. Ya ci lardin Lombard na Teate (Chieti na zamani) da Ortie da ke kewaye da Ortona, wanda ya zama makasudin ƙoƙarin Norman a wannan yankin. Loritello ya kai arewa har zuwa 1100 da Papal States. A cikin 1078 Robert ya yi kawance da Capua na Jordan zuwa gabar Abruzzo a cikin 1080, amma bayan yarjejeniya tare da Paparoma Gregory VII, an tilasta su su ɗauki yankin Papal.
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