Guiscard
Guiscard Norman rulers in Sicily: see Robert Guiscard ; Roger I .
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The Battle of Civitate: June 18th, 1053. (Months Past).
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2003; ; 635 words
; ...their half-brother Robert. Then in his early...himself the nickname Guiscard, meaning 'the crafty...Nicholas II invested Robert Guiscard as Duke of Apulia and...island from Islam. Robert Guiscard and yet another brother...
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Echo memories - The 'beautiful mansion' that saw history unfolding
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 11/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...connections in 1268 when one Guiscard De Charron became the Lord...the name of Tanfield Lea.Guiscard De Charron left a son, another Guiscard, whose only daughter, Joan...colliery was owned by Sir Robert Eden.Two early wooden wagonways...
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Echo Memories - The beautiful mansion that saw history unfolding
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 11/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...connections in 1268 when one Guiscard De Charron became the Lord...the name of Tanfield Lea.Guiscard De Charron left a son, another Guiscard, whose only daughter, Joan...colliery was owned by Sir Robert Eden.Two early wooden wagonways...
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Letters.
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...military tactics employed by the Normans including Robert Guiscard at Civitate in 1053 and in 1066 at Hastings. It was...according to the chronicler William of Apulia, Robert Guiscard was unhorsed three times (as was Duke William of...
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Hubert Houben. Rogier II of Sicily. A Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italian Culture; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Sicily when his father died. A vassal to the heirs of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, his father's older brother...eventually inherited Norman Apulia when William of Apulia, Robert Guiscard's grandson, died childless. The early years of...
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Green peace
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/29/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...off Fiscardo, Kefalonia, a corruption of the name of Robert Guiscard, the Norman invader who met stiff resistance when he attacked and took Kefalonia in 1082. Guiscard died of the fever on board his ship off the town which...
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The capture of Jerusalem. (Israel, First Crusade)(includes bibliography)(Confronting the Crusades)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Raymond of Toulouse, Godfrey of Bouillon. Robert Duke of Normandy, Robert Count of Flanders, Stephen of Blois, Hugh of Vermandois and Bohemond, son of Robert Guiscard. But there were many others with their own warbands...
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Echo memories - Grand homes that became places of learning
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 6/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...owners at various points in history include Guiscard de Charron in the 1200s, followed by...and 1901. In 1894, it was the home of Robert Duncome Eden and the Eden family remained...era. He employed the Helmsley architect Robert Stout to build the house, but the extravagant...
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Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 1/1/2006; ; 498 words
; ...truly take on a distinctive personality of its own. Figures such as the Norman brothers and adventurers Roger and Robert Guiscard, the Arab geographer al-Idrisi, and the endlessly curious Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II helped create a culture...
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Roger II of Sicily: a Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Roger II forged one of the longest lasting European political units out of the conquests of his Norman forbears, Robert Guiscard (d. 1085) and Roger I (d. 1101), while largely sustaining a quadrilingual culture of Greek and Latin Christians...
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Robert Guiscard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Guiscard The Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard, Count and Duke of Apulia (1016-1085), was the most...principalities for themselves. Of the early life in Normandy of Robert Guiscard, very little is known. In the 1030s his older brothers...
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Guiscard, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Guiscard, Robert ( c. 1015–85) Norman warrior. He was the son of Tancred de Hauteville, and with his brother Roger established himself...
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Guiscard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Guiscard Norman rulers in Sicily: see Robert Guiscard ; Roger I .
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Roger I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roger I (Roger Guiscard), c.1031-1101, Norman conqueror...Italy in 1058 to join his brother, Robert Guiscard , in conquering Apulia and Calabria...Palermo he became count of Sicily under Robert's suzerainty. Robert's death...
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Alexius I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...empire was the Norman invasions (1081-85) under Robert Guiscard and his son, Bohemond I . Alexius obtained Venetian...to defend the Balkan Peninsula until the death of Robert Guiscard, when the Normans temporarily withdrew (1085...
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