Guiscard, in his final enterprise, mounts an…

1081 CE

Guiscard, in his final enterprise, mounts an attack on the Empire, taking up the cause of Michael VII, who had been deposed in 1078 and to whose son Guiscard's daughter had been betrothed.

Guiscard's great fleet, with probable papal backing, sails against the empire in May 1081 with sixteen thousand men, including thirteen hundred Norman knights, supported by a large body of Saracens, some dubious Greeks and a well-drilled army of several thousand heterogeneous foot soldiers.

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Bari Puglia Italy View →

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Alexios I Komnenos View → Domenico Selvo View → Pope Gregory VII View → Robert Guiscard View →

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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Saracens View → Venice, Duchy of View → Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Normans View → German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Doukid dynasty View → Apulia, Norman Duchy of View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored View →

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Norman Conquest of Southern Italy View → Investiture Controversy View → Norman invasion of the Balkans, First View →

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Weapons View →

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Commerce View → Watercraft View → Labor and Service View → Conflict View → Faith View → Government View → Technology View →

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