…moves slowly down the coast to Corfu,…

…moves slowly down the coast to Corfu, where the imperial garrison surrenders at once.

Roger Borsa, the twenty-one year-old son of Guiscard and his Lombard second wife, Sikelgaita, takes part in the capture of Corfu.

At Sikelgaita's instigation, Robert had earlier named Roger Borsa as his heir rather than Bohémond, who no doubt felt early in life that he would have no patrimony because of his half brother and so would have to seek lands and fortune in the weakened condition of the Empire.

Having establishing a bridgehead for reinforcements from Italy, Guiscard's first target is Durazzo, the chief port of Illyria.