In 1027, when Duke Sergius IV was forced to flee Naples, Emilia gave him refuge, for John V was his nephew.
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In 1012, she allowed Dattus, a Lombard rebel, to garrison a tower on the Garigliano, in Gaetan territory, with papal troops, supplied by Benedict VIII.
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In 1014, at the Castro Argento, also on Gaetan soil, Emilia and the Bishop Bernard, her brother-in-law, hosted several local leaders: Daufer of Traetto, Pandulf II of Capua, Sergius IV of Naples, Atenulf of Montecassino, and the archbishop of Capua.
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But then she had to deal with the opposition of her own son, Leo II, who expected to be accorded the regency.
Firstly, in April or August 1012, after the death of his cousin John IV of Gaeta, he seized the throne in opposition to John's son, John V, then an infant, and his regents: Emilia, John IV's mother, and Leo, John IV's son.
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While Melus fled to Guaimar III of Salerno, Dattus looked to the protection of the Abbey of Montecassino, where he was aided by the Latin monks, and to Pope Benedict VIII, who loaned him papal troops to garrison a tower on the Garigliano, in the territory of the Duchy of Gaeta, then ruled by the anti-Byzantine Emilia.