Falco of Benevento (Italian: Falcone Beneventano; Lombardic: Falco Penevent[1]) was an Italian-Lombard twelfth-century historian, notary and scribe in the papal palace in Benevento, his native city, where he was born to high-standing parents.
As an historian, he is not only reliable, as he was often an eyewitness to events he recounts, but also partisan, for he was a Lombard by birth and he fiercely opposed the Normans, whom he saw as barbarians.
As a supporter of Innocent II, Falco was exiled from Benevento in 1134.
Brown writes that Falco demonstrated "a blazing pride in his city and a vitriolic hate of the Normans.
"[4] Parts of his chronicle are now lost, but were apparently used for the years 1099–1103 and 1140–49 in the Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis.