Loritello was an Italo-Norman county along the Adriatic north of the Gargano. It was carved out of the eastern seaboard of the Principality of Benevento following the Battle of Civitate in 1053 by members of the Hauteville family. The last Count of Loritello died in 1184 and the title was never revived. Geoffrey of Hauteville, a younger brother of Humphrey, Count of Apulia, began the conquest of what'd become Loritello when he attacked the Lombard county of Larino and captured the castle of Morr… (More on Loritello)