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    Leo Marsicanus (meaning "of the Marsi") or Ostiensis (meaning "of Ostia"), also known as Leone dei Conti di Marsi (1046, Marsica – 1115/7, Ostia), was...
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    walls named after Leo and for the Renaissance painting Battaglia di Ostia by Raphael. Starting in 827, Muslim forces began the conquest of Sicily and from...
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    Damiani, 1057–1072 Gerald of Ostia, 1072–1077 Odo I de Lagery, 1078–1088 (became Pope Urban II) Odo II, 1088–1102 Leo of Ostia, ca. 1103–1115 Lamberto Scannabecchi...
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  • up Ostia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ostia may refer to: Ostia (Rome), a municipio (also called Ostia Lido or Lido di Ostia) of Rome Ostia Antica...
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    Chronica sacri monasterii casinensis [it], was written by two of its own, Cardinal Leo of Ostia and Peter the Deacon (who also compiled the cartulary). By...
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  • Leo Passianos (died 22 June 1017) was the Byzantine general sent by the Catapan of Italy Leo Tornikios Kontoleon to fight the Lombard rebel Melus of Bari...
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    Much of this information was borrowed from Amatus by Peter the Deacon for his continuation of the Chronicon Monasterii Casinensis of Leo of Ostia, written...
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  • city. Pope Leo organized a league of Italian cities who fought and won the sea Battle of Ostia against the Saracens. A Roman by birth, Leo received his...
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    by Leo of Ostia. According to both Chalandon and Lord Norwich, Peter is a poor historian and writer, much inferior to Leo. Reputedly a descendant of the...
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    decoration of the rebuilt abbey church. According to chronicler Leo of Ostia the Greek artists decorated the apse, the arch and the vestibule of the basilica...
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  • battle was either indecisive (William of Apulia) or a victory for Melus (Leo of Ostia). Tornikios then took command himself and led them into a second encounter...
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    Damian, 1060–1072 Gerald of Ostia, 1072–1077 Odo I de Lagery, 1080–1088 (became Pope Urban II) Odo II, ca.1088–1102 Leo of Ostia, ca.1106–1115 Lamberto...
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  • Drengot family (category Norman conquest of southern Italy)
    Orderic Vitalis and William of Jumièges name Osmond; Ralph Glaber names Rudolph; Leo of Ostia, Amatus of Montecassino, and Adhemar of Chabannes name Gilbert...
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  • Latin adjectival form of Ostia. It also refers to medieval Roman Catholic cardinals: Leo of Ostia (died c. 1116), historian Henry of Segusio (died 1271)...
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  • death. The Chronicon Monasterii Casinensis of Leo of Ostia records him as Gregorius de Alberico. The placement of this passage implies his death around 1058...
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    Pope Leo IV contained the fire with his benediction. The Battle of Ostia was inspired by the naval victory of Leo IV over the Saracens at Ostia in 849...
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  • Antipope Victor IV (1138) (category Year of birth unknown)
    Archbishop Gerard of Angoulême; the bishops Leo of Ostia and Galo of St. Pol-de-Leon; and the cardinals Robert of S. Eusebio and Gregory of SS. XII Apostolorum...
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    Skinner, 33, based on Leo of Ostia and the Chronica Monasterii Cassinensis. Mary Stroll, The Medieval Abbey of Farfa: Target of Papal and Imperial Ambitions...
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    The Battle of Ostia (Battaglia di Ostia) is a painting by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The painting was part of Raphael's commission...
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  • daughter, Eva or Anna, married John VI of Naples. Amatus of Montecassino. Ystoire de li Normant. Leo of Ostia and Peter the Deacon. Chronicon Monasterii...
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  • of Monte Cassino from c. 529 until 1138, written by: Leo of Ostia (1046–c.1116) Peter the Deacon (fl. 1115–1131) Historia belli sacri, chronicle of the...
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    Tortoreto (category Municipalities of the Province of Teramo)
    ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019. ISTAT data. See Leo of Ostia, Chronicon monasterii Casinensis. Niccola...
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  • survival in the event of a long siege. According to the much later chronicler Leo of Ostia, he signed a pact with the prince of Benevento and Capua, Atenulf...
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  • Rerum italicarum scriptores (category Historiography of Italy)
    Ambrosiana, one an account of the Frankish kings (dated c. 1028) and the other of the law of the Lombards (c. 1013). Leo of Ostia (Books 1–3) & Peter the...
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  • Nazario sul Melfa. Its rebuilding was credited to Adam by the historian Leo of Ostia, but on 12 April 1032 Pandulf IV and his son, Pandulf VI, confirmed the...
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  • Casinensis of Leo of Ostia, William (Guilelmus), whom Leo calls comes civitatis montis Sancti Michahelis archangeli ("count of the city of Saint Michael the...
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    sections of the scheme at Salerno Cathedral, created around 1085 by a close colleague of Desiderius. According to the abbey chronicler Leo of Ostia Desiderius...
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    acolyte, subdeacon, deacon and priest in the space of a day by Sico, the cardinal-bishop of Ostia, who then proceeded to consecrate him as bishop on 6...
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    Santi Vito e Modesto, Rome (category Churches of Rome (rione Esquilino))
    cardinal to receive this title was Leo of Ostia, a Benedictine monk. In that same period a legend describing the martyrdom of St. Vitus became popular. This...
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  • p 297, calls him Landon. Chalandon, p 297 Peter the Deacon, IV, 10. Leo of Ostia and Peter the Deacon. Chronicon Monasterii Casinensis. Chalandon, Ferdinand...
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