 Some detachments of his army fled and scattered over the surrounding mountains.The Sinerchia family was mentioned in the Catalogus Baronum of 1150–1168.Scipione Ammirato (1531–1601) described Senerchia as "a castle in the Principality of Salerno of 160 hearths, which has given its name to the family that has owned it for over three hundred years", referring to the Sinerchia family whose history was so closely linked to the estate.