The  valiant  Drogo  beinff  assassinated  by
a  treacherous  Lombard,  m  the  year  1051,
the  chief  command  was  transferred  to  the
third  brother,  Humfrey,  with  the  surname
Bagalarde,  who  formerly  had  been  roaming
about  on  the  Adriatic,  and  afterwards  ob-
tained the  county  of  Lavello.  In  order  to
explain  the  immediate  succession  of  the
three  brothers,  as  leaders  of  the  Apulian
mihtary  republic,  the  Italian  historians,
who  supposed  the  presidency  hereditary,
have  eitner  erroneously  asserted  that  nbne
of  the  elder  sons  of  Tancred  had  left  any
male  descendants,  or  have  assumed,  with-
out any  foundation,  that  it  was  a  custom
among  the  Normans,  to  prefer  the  brothers
of  the  deceased  to  his  sons,  when  the  lat-
ter were  younger  than  the  former.  But
it  appears  certain,  that  the  sons  of  the
twelve  Norman  counts  inherited  only  the
territories  of  their  fathers,  without  enjoying
any  personal  claim  to  be  chosen  generu
leader  and  president  of  the  commonwealth.
III.  In  tne  year  1047,  a  band  of  foreign
travellers  arrived  at  Malfi  with  bags  on
their  shoulders  and  staves  in  their  hands.
