• Gaufredo (or Geoffrey, or Goffredo) Malaterra (Latin: Gaufridus Malaterra) was an eleventh-century Benedictine monk and historian, possibly of Norman...
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    Italy as a young man in the summer of 1057. The Benedictine monk Goffredo Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger to "Joseph and...
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  • (born 1901), Italian Olympic biathlete Goffredo Lombardo (1920–2005), Italian film producer Goffredo Malaterra, eleventh-century Benedictine monk and...
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    Norwegian background for Rollo was first explicitly claimed by Goffredo Malaterra (Geoffrey Malaterra), an 11th-century Benedictine monk and historian, who wrote:...
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  • is known as the mother of Robert Guiscard and Roger I of Sicily. Goffredo Malaterra recorded her name as Frensendis and Orderic Vitalis as Fredesendis...
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  • count. When Mauger died later that decade (in 1054, according to Goffredo Malaterra), the county passed to William, who gave it to Geoffrey. In 1059,...
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    Norman invasion of Malta is an account by the 11th-century historian Goffredo Malaterra. This highly acclaims the actions of Count Roger. In later centuries...
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  • Culture in the Medieval West. Routledge. p. 198. ISBN 9781351893923. Goffredo Malaterra. The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of Duke Robert...
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    death in 1091. The 1091 date comes from Goffredo Malaterra and a Palermitan necrology which derives from Malaterra. "Mili S. Pietro (Messina)". Archived...
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    Gaufredo Malaterra, De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius at The Latin Library Gaufredo Malaterra (Geoffroi...
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    "Norseman, Viking". The 11th century Benedictine monk and historian, Goffredo Malaterra, characterised the Normans thus: Specially marked by cunning, despising...
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    individual.” Geoffrey Malaterra, "The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of his Brother Duke Robert Guiscard", Goffredo Malaterra, fl. 1097, "De...
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  • count of Apulia, but he did not long survive to hold it. According to Goffredo Malaterra, he died in 1054, though other chroniclers have him dying in 1057...
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    Eremburga's child was Princess Muriel. According to Goffredo Malaterra, Eremburga died in 1089. Goffredo Malaterra's words: "Eremburga filia Gulielmi comitis Mortonensis"...
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  • The castle is only known from documents such as the writings of Goffredo Malaterra. The castle was destroyed in the 1693 Sicily earthquake, and no remains...
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  • the 11th century the personal chronicler of the Great Count Roger, Goffredo Malaterra, who narrated the Norman conquest of Sicily; he lists it, with the...
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    south to the Mezzogiorno to seek their fortunes there. According to Goffredo Malaterra's chronicle, Aubrey or Alverardus, the fourth son by Tancred's second...
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    his absence causing panic and confusion with his army, according to Goffredo Malaterra. The two quickly returned to the peninsula and with the support of...
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  • 1095. Some of these are presented below. Italian works Goffredo Malaterra. Goffredo Malaterra (fl. 1099) was a Benedictine monk and historian who wrote...
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    brothers William and Drogo to the Mezzogiorno circa 1035 on the basis of Goffredo Malaterra; however, he may have arrived later, in 1044, during the reign of...
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  • that his father was Armand of Mortain.[citation needed] According to Goffredo Malaterra, Geoffrey conquered most of his lands with his own energy (sua strenuitate)...
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    I of Sicily son of Tancred of Hauteville. According to historian Goffredo Malaterra, after being besieged in the neighboring town of Troina for four months...
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  • the Mezzogiorno and made his fortunes there. Van Houts 2000, p. 61. Goffredo Malaterra. The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of Duke Robert...
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    11th century), was a Neoplatonic philosopher of Calabrian origin. Goffredo Malaterra (fl. 11th century), a Benedictin and historian, was the author of...
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  • and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard, Translation of GOFFREDO MALATERRA, De Rebus Gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae Comitis et Roberti...
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    Vitalis, monk of Saint-Évroult, writer of the Historia ecclesiastica. Goffredo Malaterra, monk, preacher, and historian, was a monk there in his youth. Serlon...
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  • appeared in De rebus gestis Rogerii et Roberti by Benedictine historian Goffredo Malaterra. Pauler argued the episcopal see Ioviensis is a result of distortion...
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    is Tancred of Hauteville, a minor baron of Normandy. According to Goffredo Malaterra's chronicle, Aubrey or Alverardus, the fourth son by Tancred's second...
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  • here may refer to: Galfredus Malaterra fl. 1097, a chronicler in Normandy; a.k.a. Goffredo Malaterra, Geoffroi Malaterra, Gaufredi Malaterræ, and Galfredus...
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    Sicily around 1076, according to the account of the Norman chronicler Goffredo Malaterra, and was given to the city of Caltagirone. According to Arab geographer...
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