Robert Guiscard

Robert Guiscard (1015-1085), also Robert de Hauteville, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, was a Norman adventurer, born at Coutances, in Normandy. Along with his brothers, sons of Tancred de Hauteville, he, the sixth of twelve, following others of the family, invaded South Italy. He won renown by his great prowess, and in the end the dukedom of Apulia. He engaged in war with the Emperor of the East, but returned to suppress a revolt in his own territory. When Pope Gregory VII was besieged in San Angelo by Henry IV of Germany he came to the rescue and the emperor made off.

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