PERIOD NORMANNO

When Sergio the duca of Naples in 1030 donated to normanno the Damulfo the village of Aversa concurred with the Normanni to place foot in the Meridione. In year 1068 it ended that also the Ducato di Amalfi, for the inability and the weakness of its government fell under the infuence normanna. Naturally also for Agerola a new historical course began.

In the 1073 Amalfi quite invocò the aid normanno against the threats of Gisulfo, prince of Salerno. In its defense the Roberto the Guiscardo noticed duca normanno.

During this period some families amalfita some sheltered themselves to Agerola and from their last names the Molegnano, Caucelle, the Corsaro derive toponimi and others. Year 1084, died Roberto, happened the son Ruggiero I, duca of Puglia, which defense once again the Ducato di Amalfi against Gisulfo.

The forces in field crossed in along and in wide our hills and they let behind pillages of every kind, species in damage to the churches. In 1100 duca normanno it captured of the Ducato Amalfitano, lasted possession over a long time span.

From this moment we begin to find news of deep cultivates to you to roses in Agerola, commonly calls rosaries to you. The essence of roses, or rosata water, produced to Agerola particularly was appreciated and demanded from the aristocrats and cortigiani of the Court of Naples. In the Memories of Matteo Room we find that “to the medioevali times great cultivation ivi “rosaria” faceasi of roses white women donde estraevan the essences and the distilled water from they plants and cotanto searched in the magnetizie classrooms” ('). The 26 lugio 1127 it became doge of Amalfi Ruggiero I, conte of Sicily. One consolidated, therefore, ulteriorly the infuence normanna in our zone.

The inhabitants of our ducato one, badly sopportando the government normanno, schierarono against, triggering the reaction of Ruggiero that placed besiege to the Ducato “tightened coll'armata of earth the mountainous places of this region” (2). Amalfi, not being able to resist to I besiege, the fine ones had to surrender.

Ruggiero, reduced in its power, between the other things, also Agerola, sended a baiulo to you, a notary public and other civil employees. To this point the common problems began to join the citizens and pian slowly the rising institutions were gone strengthening in order to become the seed of the Common future. But for Agerola they still passed of the years before that a free one was born common independent and.

In the 1135 the Pisani attacked Amalfi, than defense courageous helped from Ruggiero. Two years after, unfortunately, the fates turned in favor of Pisa. With the destructions and the 4 pillages of August the 1135 and the 13 1137 July Pisani placed aim to the political and economic power of the glorious Ducato Amalfitano, while the interference normanna continued until to the end of the century.