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Pandulf I (also Randulf, Bandulf, Pandulph, Pandolf, Pandolfo, Paldolf, or Paldolfo), called Ironhead (Testa di Ferro or Capodiferro in Italian), was the duke (or prince) of Benevento and Capua from 943 to 981. He was an important nobleman in the fight with the Byzantines and Moslems for control of the Mezzogiorno in the centuries after the collapse of Lombard and Carolingian authority in the peninsula. He established himself over almost the whole of the southern half of Italia before his death in March 981.

He co-reigned with his father, , from 943. Upon his father's death in 961, he received Capua and his brother Benevento. In 967, Emperor Otto I came down and gave him the duchy of Spoleto. Finally, upon the Landulf's death (968), he received Benevento too, cheating his nephews out of their patrimony. In that year, Otto left the siege of Bari in the charge of Pandulf, but the allied duke was captured in the battle of by the Byzantines. He was released later in the deal in which John Tzimisces, Byzantine emperor, gave Theophano in marriage to Otto's son Otto II.

When Duke Gisulf I of Salerno was deposed and removed from office by a religious insurrection led by his brother Landulf, the Ironhead restored Gisulf as his vassal. Gisulf died heirless in 977 or 978 and Pandulf succeeded in Salerno.

He was married to Aloara of Capua. His lands were partitioned among their sons, who fought endlessly over the inheritance. His son received Capua and Benevento and Pandulf II received Salerno. Otto II came down to Rome in 981, however, and Spoleto was given to , duke of Camerino. Then, the Ironhead's nephew Pandulf was given Benevento in a partition of Landulf's territory, in which Landulf kept Capua. Finally, Duke dispossessed the younger Pandulf of Salerno and was confirmed in Amalfi by the Emperor . Soon he was given the duchy of Salerno by the Emperor after he unsuccessfully besieged it.

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