Scope Of Chapter LVI
ADEvent
840-1017 Conflict of the Saracens, Latins, and Greeks in Italy
871Conquest of Bari
890New Province of the Greeks in Italy
983Defeat of Otho III.; Anecdotes
1016 Origin of the Normans in Italy
1029 Foundation of Aversa
1038 The Normans serve in Sicily
1040-1043 Their Conquest of Apulia; Character of the Normans
l046Oppression of Apulia
1049-1054League of the Pope and the two Empires
1053 Expedition of Pope Leo IX. against the Normans
His Defeat and Captivity
Origin of the Papal Investitures to the Normans
1020-l085Birth and Character of Robert Guiscard
1054-l080 His Ambition and Success
1060Duke of Apulia, His Italian Conquest ; School of Salerno;
Trade of Amalphi
1060-l090Conquest of Sicily by Count Roger
1081 Robert invades the Eastern Empire; Siege of Durazzo
The Army and March of the Emperor Alexius
Battle of Durazzo
1082 Durazzo taken; Return of Robert, and Actions of Bohemond
ADEvent
1081 The Emperor Henry III. invited by the Greeks
1081-1084Besieges Rome, Flies before Robert
1084 Second Expedition of Robert into Greece
1085His Death
1101-1154 Reign and Ambition of Roger, great Count of Sicily
1127 Duke of Apulia
1130-1139 First King of Sicily
1122-1152 His Conquest in Africa
1146His Invasion of Greece #8212;His Admiral delivers
Louis VII of France, Insults Constantinople
1148,1149 The Emperor Manuel repulses the Normans
1155He reduces Apulia and Calabria
1155-1174 His Design of acquiring Italy and the Western Empire
Failure of his Designs
1156Peace with the Normans
1185Last War of the Greeks and Normans
1154-1166William I. the Bad King of Sicily
1166-1189 William II. the Good; Lamentation of the Historian Falcandus
1194Conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily
by the Emperor Henry VI.
1204Final Extinction of the Normans
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