William of Apulia information

William of Apulia (Latin: Guillelmus Apuliensis) was a poet and chronicler of the Normans, writing in the 1090s. His Latin epic, Gesta Roberti Wiscardi...

Norman state founded by William of Hauteville in 1043 composed of the territories of Gargano, Capitanata, Apulia, Vulture, and most of Campania. It became...

separate times, according to William of Apulia. Honored for his actions at Civitate, Guiscard succeeded Humphrey as Count of Apulia in 1057, over his elder...

267 The Battle of Civitate was fought on 18 June 1053 in southern Italy, between the Normans, led by the Count of Apulia Humphrey of Hauteville, and...

Apulia and Calabria (then under Borsa's son William II) and Taranto (which had been given to Bohemond as a consolation for being deprived of Apulia)...

the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi of William of Apulia (dated 1088–1110) and the Chronica monasterii S. Bartholomaei de Carpineto of a monk named Alexander, written...

a Lombard princess, the daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno and second wife of Duke Robert Guiscard of Apulia. Her heritage made her a vital asset...

Fortore at Arenula. The battle was either indecisive (William of Apulia) or a victory for Melus (Leo of Ostia). Tornikios then took command himself and led...

Loud, The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (Routledge, 2013), p. 136. William of Apulia (1096–99). "The Deeds of Robert Guiscard"...

IV of Salerno "Duke of Apulia and Calabria". He promptly awarded their elected leader, William Iron Arm, with the title of count in his capital of Melfi...

Constantinople. In 1016, according to the Norman chronicler William of Apulia, Melus went to the Shrine of Saint Michael at Monte Gargano to intercept some Norman...

Ishmael of Montepeloso. Passianos met Melus on the Fortore at Arenula. The battle was either indecisive (William of Apulia) or a victory for Melus (Leo of Ostia)...

legally called "Count of the Normans in all Apulia and Calabria" (Comes Normannorum totius Apuliae e Calabriae), and so William is usually titled likewise...

lost ancient annals of Bari up to 1051. William of Apulia appears to have used these same annals. Lupus also used the lost annals of Matera. Perhaps most...

Duke of Apulia.[citation needed] After his death Norman officials led by Matthew of Ajello supported his cousin Tancred to succeed him, instead of Constance...

primary sources for the Norman Conquest of southern Italy--the other two being the histories of William of Apulia and Geoffrey Malaterra. Amatus describes...

chronicler William of Apulia in his The Deeds of Robert Guiscard says that he "though now only a young man, already shows courage worthy of an adult."...

Count of Sicily in 1105, became Duke of Apulia and Calabria in 1127, then King of Sicily in 1130 and King of Africa in 1148. By 999, Norman adventurers...

the south of Italy, the Byzantines turned in desperation to the Normans' own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX, and, according to William of Apulia, begged him...

sons: Roger IV, Duke of Apulia (1152–1161) Robert III, Prince of Capua (1153–c. 1160) William II of Sicily (1153–1189) Henry, Prince of Capua (1158–1172)...

to William of Apulia, "equalled in his virtues both the duke and his father." In 1071, Jordan briefly rebelled against his father with the support of his...

Lombard rebels in Melfi by camping near Montepeloso. According to William of Apulia, prior to battle Exaugustus made a speech to the troops as follows:...

son of Asclettin of Acerenza. The historians Amatus of Montecassino and William of Apulia are the main contemporary sources for the career of Rainulf...

re-fortifying Bisceglie and Barletta, as recorded by the chronicler William of Apulia (book II, lines 30–32): Ditior his Petrus consanguinitate propinquus...

time in 1084, when he is briefly mentioned (dux Mabrica) by William of Apulia as commander of the Byzantine fleet stationed at Corfu. Kazhdan 1991, p. 1317;...