By Gordon S. Brown
This wealthy and infrequently dramatic examine makes a speciality of the 8 sons of Tancred of Hauteville, specifically Robert Guiscard, who has been referred to as “the such a lot excellent army ruler among Julius Caesar and Napoleon,” and his youngest brother Roger, who conquered Sicily. It discusses how they multiplied their lands all through southern Italy, after which took Sicily from its Muslim rulers. The brothers, usually in clash with one another, challenged either the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire, turned the most supporters of the reformed Papacy, and based a wealthy, subtle nation that lasted until eventually the 19th century.
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