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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Norman military leader who conquered much of southern Italy and protected Pope Gregory VII from the invading armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1084).
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Foremost of his countrymen in courage and capacity was the adventurer Robert de Hauteville, better known as Robert Guiscard, substantially the founder of that Neapolitan kingdom which we have seen absorbed into the new kingdom of Italy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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Robert Guiscard was one of several brothers who came to Italy from Normandy to work as mercenaries and gain their fortune.
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The Career of Robert Guiscard, according to the Annales Lupi Protospatharii admin | September 27, 2009
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 » September 2009
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Robert Guiscard was one of several brothers who came to Italy from Normandy to work as mercenaries and gain their fortune.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 » September 2009
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Muslims remained in control of Sicily, but the Normans saw their prospects improve with the arrival of Robert de Hauteville, a military leader of great energy and ability known to history as Robert Guiscard, or Robert "the shrewd one."
New Book Notice 2009
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The main armies followed separate routes to Constantinople; the march of Bohemund eldest son of Robert Guiscard, the Norman adventurer who had earlier made himself Duke of Apulia in Italy, and then attacked the Byzantine Empire, described by the Anonymous, who accompanied him, is given here.
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This year the city of Salerno was besieged by Robert Guiscard, the Duke of the Normans, and taken by him.
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Muslims remained in control of Sicily, but the Normans saw their prospects improve with the arrival of Robert de Hauteville, a military leader of great energy and ability known to history as Robert Guiscard, or Robert "the shrewd one."
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Gaita, for example, the wife of Robert Guiscard, a redoubted hero, and the parent of a most heroic race of sons, was herself an Amazon, fought in the foremost ranks of the Normans, and is repeatedly commemorated by our Imperial historian, Anna Comnena.
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Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, had then raised all his forces.
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