Robert Guiscard has meanwhile continued to expand …
Years: 1071 - 1071
Robert Guiscard has meanwhile continued to expand the small county left by Humphrey into a duchy, extending from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian sea.
The capture of Bari, the last remaining imperial stronghold, in April 1071 after a three-year siege results, in the end of Constantinople’s rule in southern Italy, together with the hope of an imperial reconquest of Sicily.
Locations
People
Groups
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Sicily, Emirate of
- Normans
- Italy, Catepanate of
- Apulia, Norman Duchy of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Doukid dynasty
