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Tancred, depicted as a monkey, enjoys the imprisonment of Roger, his chief enemy in this illumination from the Liber ad honorem Augusti of Peter of Eboli (1196).
Tancred, depicted as a monkey, enjoys the imprisonment of Roger, his chief enemy in this illumination from the Liber ad honorem Augusti of Peter of Eboli (1196). Peter of Eboli or Petrus de Ebulo (flourished ca 1196&ndash1220 was a Didactic Versifier and Chronicler who wrote in Latin.

Roger, count of Andria and Great Chamberlain of Sicily, was a claimant for the Sicilian throne after the death of William II in 1189. A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing a household. The following is a list of monarchs of Sicily. Counts of Sicily Sicily was granted pending its Christian reconquest to Robert Guiscard as "duke" William II (French language Guillaume II, 1155 &ndash November 11 1189 Palermo) called the Good, was king of Sicily He is claimed by some to have been a great-grandson of Drogo of Hauteville, but this cannot be proven. Drogo of Hauteville (c1010 &ndash 10 August 1051) succeeded his brother William Iron Arm, with whom he arrived in southern Italy c

Roger, along with Romuald Guarna, Archbishop of Salerno, was sent by William in 1177 to attend discussions in Venice following the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's defeat at Legnano—a victory in which Roger had participated—in the previous year. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the The Holy Roman Emperor (Römischer Kaiser or Römisch-Deutscher Kaiser Romanorum Imperator was the elected monarch ruling over the many varying numbers of states Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 &ndash 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned The Battle of Legnano was fought on May 29 1176 between the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, led by emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the Together, the Sicilian envoys assented to the Treaty of Venice. The Treaty or Peace of Venice, 1177, was an important peace treaty between the Papacy and its allies the north Italian city-states of the Lombard

Roger initially resisted the claims of Tancred of Lecce in favour of those of Constance, daughter of the late Roger II, and wife of Henry VI, son of Barbarossa, though he was a candidate himself. Tancred (died February 20, 1194) was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194 Constance of Sicily (1154 &ndash November 27, 1198) was the heiress of the Norman kings of Sicily and the wife of Henry VI Holy Roman Emperor Roger II ( 22 December 1095 &ndash 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his Henry VI (November 1165 – 28 September 1197) was King of Germany from 1190 to 1197 Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197 and King He had most of the barons of the peninsula on side, but Tancred's chancellor, Matthew of Ajello, was spreading sordid tales of his private life and the count's support eroded fast. Matthew of Ajello (Matteo d'Ajello was a high-ranking member of the Norman court of the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century Roger joined with Count Richard of Carinola and Henry Testa, the marshal of Henry VI, and invaded Apulia. Henry of Kalden or Henry Testa of Bappenheim was a Ministerialis in the service of the German kings Henry VI, Philip, Marshal (also sometimes spelled marshall in American English, but not in British English) is a word used in several official titles of various branches Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea They captured Corneto, but at the siege of Ariano, Richard, Count of Acerra, tricked the count of Andira and captured him (1190). Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and in Antiquity Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the Province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. Ariano Irpino (formerly Ariano di Puglia or simply Ariano) is a municipality in the province of Avellino, in the Campania region of Richard, count of Acerra, was the brother of Sibylla, queen of Tancred of Sicily. He executed him soon after.

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