NOBLEMAN

Melus of Bari

1000 - 1020

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Melus (also Milus or Meles, Melo in Italian) (died 1020) was a Lombard nobleman from the Apulian town of Bari, whose ambition to carve for himself an autonomous territory from the Byzantine catapanate of Italy in the early eleventh century inadvertently sparked the Norman presence in Southern Italy. He was the first Duke of Apulia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melus of Bari is the 939th most popular nobleman (up from 967th in 2019), the 2,783rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,889th in 2019) and the 95th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Melus of Bari ranks 939 out of 1,415. Before him are Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach, Henry III, Duke of Głogów, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Nilufer Hanımsultan, and Ferdinand de la Cerda. After him are Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress, Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, William II, Count of Provence, Edward III, Duke of Bar, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1000, Melus of Bari ranks 51. Before him are Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, Dub, King of Scotland, Stephen Držislav of Croatia, Rainulf Drengot, Aron of Bulgaria, and Gottschalk. After him are Ermengol I, Count of Urgell, Albert I, Count of Namur, Coloman of Stockerau, Tribuno Memmo, William of Jumièges, and Rabia Balkhi. Among people deceased in 1020, Melus of Bari ranks 7. Before him are Leif Erikson, Ferdowsi, Al-Sijzi, Abhinavagupta, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, and Åsta Gudbrandsdatter. After him are Trdat, Malusha, Gagik I of Armenia, and Ælfric of Eynsham.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Melus of Bari ranks 2,783 out of 5,161. Before him are Benedetto Cairoli (1825), Pietro Mengoli (1626), Mario Minniti (1577), Lucrezia Barberini (1628), Rossano Brazzi (1916), and Roberto Calasso (1941). After him are Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress (1252), Luca Guadagnino (1971), Toni Servillo (1959), Giulio Gaudini (1904), Marietta Alboni (1823), and Eusebio Kino (1645).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Melus of Bari ranks 95. Before him are Adalbert I of Ivrea (880), Matteo II Visconti (1319), Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma (1635), Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1870), Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara (1564), and Lucrezia Barberini (1628). After him are Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress (1252), Vespasiano I Gonzaga (1531), Guy, Margrave of Tuscany (900), Nerio I Acciaioli (1400), David Rizzio (1533), and Anselm, Duke of Friuli (720).

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