# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melus-of-bari
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:16:41.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melus-of-bari"
name: "Melus of Bari"
slug: "melus-of-bari"
description: "Melus was a Lombard nobleman from the Apulian town of Bari, whose ambition to carve for himself an autonomous territory from the Byzantine catapanate of Italy in the early eleventh century inadvertently sparked the Norman presence in Southern Italy. He was the first Duke of Apulia."
tagline: "Duke of Italy"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Cape_of_Melus_of_Bari.jpg/330px-Cape_of_Melus_of_Bari.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1000"
deathDate: "1020-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.77559733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Мелус Барійський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A)"
    title: "ميلوس (باري)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_de_Bari"
    title: "Melus de Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_af_Bari"
    title: "Melus af Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meles_von_Bari"
    title: "Meles von Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9"
    title: "Μέλος του Μπάρι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_of_Bari"
    title: "Melus of Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_de_Bari"
    title: "Melo de Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_Barikoa"
    title: "Melo Barikoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_de_Bari"
    title: "Melo de Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_di_Bari"
    title: "Melo di Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_van_Bari"
    title: "Melus van Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_av_Bari"
    title: "Melus av Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_de_Bari"
    title: "Melo de Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_din_Bari"
    title: "Melus din Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Мелус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_od_Barija"
    title: "Melo od Barija"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melus_av_Bari"
    title: "Melus av Bari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barili_Melus"
    title: "Barili Melus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump