Ernesto Pontieri
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LOCATION: Naples, Italy
Professor of Medieval and Modern History, University of Naples. Author of Tra i Normanni nell' Italia meridionale.
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Robert was a Norman adventurer who settled in Apulia, in southern Italy, about 1047 and became duke of Apulia (1059). He eventually extended Norman rule over Naples, Calabria, and Sicily and laid the foundations of the kingdom of Sicily. Robert was born into a family of knights. Arriving in Apulia,…
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