After the fall of the Roman Empire, the territory was successively occupied by the Ostrogoths of Alaric I (410), the Vandals (476), the Herules, then the Lombards and the Saracens. In 1055 Pandolfo and Landolfo, Lords of Capua, gave this land to the monks of Monte Cassino who lent the ground to shepherds living in Picinisco, Agnone and Atina, Lazio.