Robert "Guiscard" de Hauteville, sometimes Robert "the Guiscard" (/ɡiːˈskɑːr/ ghee-SKAR, Modern French: [ɡiskaʁ]; c. 1015 – 17 July 1085), was a Norman...

Guiscard (French pronunciation: [ɡiskaʁ]) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Communes of the Oise department "Répertoire national...

Guiscard or de Guiscard may refer to: Guiscard, commune in the Oise department in northern France Antoine de Guiscard (1658–1711), French refugee, spy...

the Conqueror joined the Byzantines in their struggle against the Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia, in Southern Italy. The earliest reported date of the arrival...

experienced military leader of the crusade. Bohemond was the son of Robert Guiscard, Count of Apulia and Calabria, and his first wife, Alberada of Buonalbergo...

Guiscard Bustari was a Florentine Italian adventurer and ambassador, who was employed by the Mongol Il Khan ruler Ghazan. In the summer 1300, Guiscard...

1061). He was later invested with part of Sicily by his brother, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, in 1071. By 1090, he had conquered the entire island....

Antoine de Guiscard (1658 – 17 March 1711), also known as the Marquis de Guiscard or the Abbé de la Bourlie, was a French refugee, spy and double agent...

the 1090s. His Latin epic, Gesta Roberti Wiscardi ("The Deeds of Robert Guiscard"), written in hexameters, is one of the principal contemporary sources...

The County of Sicily was created by Robert Guiscard in 1071 for his younger brother Roger Bosso. Guiscard himself had received the title Duke of Sicily...

the wife of Tancred of Hauteville. She is known as the mother of Robert Guiscard and Roger I of Sicily. Goffredo Malaterra recorded her name as Frensendis...

Salerno as his liege. To further strengthen ties and legitimacy, Robert Guiscard also married Lombard Princess Sikelgaita in 1058. Following the death of...

Apulia, Vulture, and most of Campania. It became a duchy when Robert Guiscard was raised to the rank of duke by Pope Nicholas II in 1059. The duchy was...

no proof that allows to connect the related knight Robert Guiscard with this village. Guiscard refers more probably to a Guichard de Montfort. The first...

knife got stuck. Several Councillors, including Ormonde, stabbed Guiscard in return. Guiscard implored Ormonde to finish the deed, but Ormonde replied that...

Helena, born Olympias, was a daughter of the Norman duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard, and the Lombard noblewoman Sikelgaita. From 1074 until 1078, she was the...

duchess of Apulia as the first wife of Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia (1059–1085). She married Guiscard in 1051 or 1052, when he was still just a robber...

Emperor Michael VII. He participated in the Norman campaigns of Robert Guiscard to overthrow the Byzantine Empire. By 1081, the Byzantine Empire was in...

Fredesenda), he had seven more sons and at least one daughter: Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia and Calabria (1057), then duke of Apulia...

Komnenos (r. 1081–1118), and the Normans of southern Italy under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. The battle was fought outside the city of...

Normans under Guiscard and his son Bohemund of Taranto, who captured Dyrrhachium and Corfu and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly. Guiscard's death in 1085...

Robert Guiscard and Sikelgaita, a Lombard noblewoman. His ambitious mother arranged for Roger to succeed his father in place of Robert Guiscard's eldest...

(died September 1100) was an Italo-Norman nobleman. A nephew of Robert Guiscard through one of his sisters, he was the count of Conversano from 1072 and...

Robert Guiscard leads a Norman army (36,000 men) north and enters Rome; the city is sacked, and Henry IV is forced to retreat. Robert Guiscard returns...

Northumberland are descended. Percy married Eleanor Harbottle, daughter of Guiscard Harbottle of Beamish, County Durham (d. Battle of Flodden Field), by his...

Subsequently, Rome was sacked and burned by the Normans under Robert Guiscard who had entered the city in support of the Pope, then besieged in Castel...

the early 11th century, and was completely captured by the Norman Robert Guiscard in 1053. Paul the Deacon refers to Benevento as the "Samnite Duchy" (Ducatum...

III, his betrothal to Olympias, the daughter of Robert Guiscard, was broken, which Robert Guiscard used as a pretext to invade the Byzantine Empire. John...

(2005). The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria & Sicily & of Duke Robert Guiscard his brother, Geoffrey Malaterra. Translated by Loud, Graham A. p. 3. Archived...

immediately faced an invasion of western Balkans by the Normans under Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemond. Despite initial defeats, Alexios secured an alliance...