The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The East
AD Scope Of Chapter LVI
840-1017 Conflict of the Saracens, Latins, and Greeks in Italy
871 Conquest of Bari
890 New Province of the Greeks in Italy
983 Defeat 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
l046 Oppression 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-l085 Birth and Character of Robert Guiscard
1054-l080 His Ambition and Success
1060 Duke 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
1081 The Emperor Henry III. invited by the Greeks
1081 - 1084Besieges Rome, Flies before Robert
1084 Second Expedition of Robert into Greece
1085His Death
110l-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
1146 His Invasion of Greece,
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
1156 Peace with the Normans
1185 Last 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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