Guiscard
Americannoun
noun
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The cathedral of Salerno retains still the fine atrium by Robert Guiscard in 1077.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
If you regard only the worth and virtue of your courtiers, and consider that of Guiscard, you will find him the only noble person, and these others a set of poltroons.
From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)
But to return to Robert Guiscard, who shares the historical honours of the place, together with the great Pope Gregory VII., of whom we shall speak presently.
From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)
After the division of the Roman empire, it continued attached to Byzantium till 1082, when it was captured by Robert Guiscard, who died, however, before he could repress the revolt of 1085.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Robert Guiscard received his mortal wound before the walls of the city as his troops swept over the ramparts at the first assault after an eight months' siege.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
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