The origins of our region was inhabited by peoples of different origins and independent of one another: Vestini Marsi Marrucini, Peligni, etc. Frentani. Who once conquered by the Romans, became their allies and obtained Roman citizenship. Monasticism flourished later that marked the transition from the era pagan than Christian. The fall of the Roman Empire followed the barbarian invasions, and the dawn of the year 1000 arose the great feudal families. Lombards, Normans, Swabians, Angevin, Aragonese, Spanish and finally the Bourbons, long ups and downs created and maintained, for better or worse, a legal-political organization to safeguard the stability and authority of a state with its capital Naples as the centerpiece of our Peninsula. In the context of this long history, as far as we can relate more closely fits a large number of marquis and accounts belonging to one large feudal family: the D'Avalos. In 1497 Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Naples, appointed Innigo Marchese del Vasto and Earl of Monteodorisio, whose dependencies were many feuds made by countries throughout the territory. He was succeeded by his son, Alfonso d'Avalos, whose military exploits in the service of Charles V was celebrated in the fifteenth song Ariosto Orlando Furioso. ' Avalos family worship lasted about four centuries and ended with the abolition of feudalism, sanctioned by Decree 12 August 1806, the work of Joachim Murat, as a result of the proclamation of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799. Finally, after the wars of Independence, even the Abruzzi was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy, October 21, 1860.
The territory of Gissi (ref. excerpts IGM 1:100,000 / 1:25,000) was affected by a sustained level since ancient settlement that is underpinned by a number of reports that towards the end of the nineteenth century were collected by De Nino Colonna. De Nino intervened on this site Saint Lucia (498 mt name to share. Asl to the west of Santa Lucia Hill and at an altitude of 403 meters. South) and then St. John's Hill where, during drilling operations conducted in 1892, tombs were discovered and many other items including a stamnos bucchero Italy, a kotyle, fragments of a thin bronze bowl, an iron spear and a piece of graffiti torquis Bronze eyelet. De Nino wrote in 1896, the same year Colonna noted the findings on the hill near the farm Rovelizio Caesar Maris (toponyms share 282 and 277 meters. Sm to the north of), consisting of a hundred tombs tiled retrieved different times along with other brick as well as some remains of walls that were not to be entirely unrelated to the fact that just north, or in the same area, there was the ancient settlement of Monteacuto disappeared. Again the column derived from the location of the ancient church of S. Mary Sinellum to two male graves, a sixth century BC and the other of the fourth as well as nine tombs and two burial kit without exhaust was in Roman times. Between the seventh and sixth centuries BC Cr. should also be noted that the necropolis of Vasto, Villalfonsina and contiguous Carpineto waxed adding the first traces of permanent settlements in Tornareccio and Villalfonsina. In the period from the fifth to the fourth century BC Cr., Ie Piceno IVb V and VI, they found both in territory more properly Pentro (Schiavi and Torrebruna) in area and Frentana in Carpineto Sinello Tornareccio but also and especially Fresagrandinaria Villalfonsina. The tombs Italic variously re-emerged in San Buono, Villa Spider Scerni, Gissi Carpineto and therefore go to join those who now seem real strongholds, because usually located in offshore locations, distributed between the Moro Contrada San Buono, in all Gissi and likely right here in Monte Sorbo, and then Villalfonsina. If these findings belong to the beginnings of archeology of the area other sites were identified later with materials of various kinds of pottery fragments from Roman times to the Hemlock Hill or Montagnola the bricks of pure Roman Hill Sorbo or farms and Marisa Carugno up the tombs and two bronze statuettes of Piano golden tombs tiled Carunchio Casino (350 mt names to share. asl to the north of and 165 m altitude. north-east) and structures identified in 1979 area south-east between Cravara and Colle Montenero also romanization. The picture that we can deduce is that of an area with good settlement systems and above those to cover the whole country that develops at the turn of the river dividing Sinello halfway between the north wedged between the territories and Scerni Casalanguida and the south closed between those Sinello Carpineto, San Buono, Furci and north-east, Monteodorisio. Although most of the findings seems to lay some to the Roman tombs may also be ascribed as we have seen in the previous phase. This system of colonization spread intersects then the next phase of acquisition of territory depends on the early Middle Ages and then from the Middle Ages the relationship here is enriched by the presence of witnesses to the north of the Monteacuto (which cuts out their territory at the of the North) and other neighbors and contemporaries such as Ragna north and above the village of Maternal east belonged Farfa Abbey of St. Stephen in Lucan (Tornareccio) and mentioned in the donation of 829 Louis the Pious' s last two on the territory of Scerni but immediately bordering to Monteacuto of Gissi. Colonization of the concerns, however, a very early stage and late medieval and already can be considered completed in the twelfth century the castrum of Monteacuto time it is missing perhaps overwhelmed by the crisis of the Benedictine abbey that was both head of the quakes S. Stefano Rivo Maris and which will not be enough the next Slavic immigration in the area by the Mother to revive depleted state population. Other settlement disappeared and unidentified for now is in chronological Colle Piancallaro (or Piancaldaia) (name at 332 meters altitude. Sm south of the town) whose importance is the fact that it is to stand in correspondence (slightly west) of the passage that leads to furca Furci (describing the form that inhabited place names) and possibly identify the site of the ecclesia S. Marie de Caldaro mentioned again in the tenth 1324-25 if it does not go instead referring to Gessopalena. S. Leonardo (at an altitude of 356 m. name. sm to the north of), St. Andrew (St. Andrew's to name a Ripa 368 meters altitude. ca north), St. George (name Colle S . George altitude 402 meters. to the east) could draw benefits church buildings or churches and chaplaincy disappeared while certificates are clerics from the Gissi tenth of 1324, those of clerics from Gisco in 1328, clerics from Gissu in 1326 with those of the churches of St. Giles (1324-25) along with other Valentine's, St. Sylvester, St. Victorinus, St. Julian's (though the latter may be referred to rather Gessopalena). Perhaps Gissi (or even with Gesso Palena) is also to identify that Gissi quae facta est de Giso whose tenth of the living and the dead are from the bishop of Chieti Roberto assigned in 1141 to the prior of the abbey of St. Saviour in Maiella Alexander . In the property appreciates D'Avalos completed in 1703 and 1742 also appear both extramural churches of St. Rocco and St. John used to accommodate pilgrims because with guest quarters and a church dedicated to St. Francis parish in addition to Assumption . In the same appreciation is also mentioned Source St. Leonard to ask perhaps in relation with the location of the same name but just remembered to appreciate that in Contrada Serre (name Serra at 442 meters altitude. Sm south-east of). The large number of churches which is added also that of St. Lucia, chapels and benefits listed in church drew level confirms the settlement of the territory between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century despite the disappearance of many of them the same insdiamento of Monteacuto. The thickness also depended on the demographic effects of the economy gravitating around the arm tratturale Lanciano-Vasto transiting the northeast near Casalforzato (Furci) and S. Pietro ad Aram (Montedoriso). The significance of the settlement can be highlighted even more when compared with other settlements: the Catalogus Baronum, when it was administered on behalf of the Norman Count of Loreto Giozzelino, Gissi gave four horsemen against the one who provided most of community limitrofe.La importance of the settlement can be highlighted even more when compared with other settlements: the Catalogus Baronum, when it was administered on behalf of the Norman Count of Loreto Giozzelino, Gissi gave four horsemen against the one who provided the Most communities limitrofe.La dall'annotazione importance is also given in the Book of King Roger of Al-Idrisi in the second half of the twelfth century (the name G.ns). The name is derived from the Latin palesente ie gypsum plaster with allusion to the formation of calcium sulfate crystal on which the village is located and which is built largely completed and have become a veritable source of income for the community when is extracted using contracts privately in 1843. Gissi is also directly involved in the first phase of Norman penetration in Abruzzo Apulia coming back from the
'Adriatic. In 1059-60 the Earl of Capitanata Geoffrey of Hauteville, brother of Guiscard, invaded the district of Termoli, having stormed the castle Guillalmatum, heads toward the nearby Gissi taking Guilmi whose feudal also Walter Norman But opponents of the Normans of Apulia, is captured. Attempting to seize the brand Chieti however fails and the drive north is, at least at this early stage, stop the death of Godfrey in 1063. Said in 1173 the castle Gissi Plebem St. Marie, by Charles of Anjou, Peter was assigned to the pen in exchange for services rendered during the battle of Tagliacozzo and the notes of that of 1279 is awarded to Charles William of Provence that Isnardo owned half, already conceded to his nephew, in the value of 24 ounces of gold. In 1447, when it was of 128 fires, is taken by Antonio Caldora to pass, after being for some time the Prince of Conca Cesare Giulio Capua, then from 1669 to the D'Avalos. In 1532, the fires amounted to 124, 154 in 1545, 169 in 1561 when the town was joined County Monteodorisio (1555), 172 in 1595, 130 in 1648, 149 in 1669, 156 in 1732. In the paper the image of the 1620 appears with the name Chalk.
