 After the Hohenstaufen and Angevine domination, the Aragonese gave it as a fief to Ettore Fieramosca.In 1581 his heir Ettore Leognano Fieramosca ceded it to Giulio Cesare De Capua.In 1734 the troops of Charles of Bourbon besieged here Marshal von Traun, who had to flee to Capua.