Robert Guiscard

[ French raw-ber gee-skar ]

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noun

He had made legitimate the claims already established by conquest of Robert Guiscard and others of the Norman conquerors.

That prince was engaged in an attempt to raise the siege of Dyrrhachium, then invested by Robert Guiscard.

Robert Guiscard had burned the city in 1084, but he had not destroyed everything.

The conquests of Robert Guiscard, instigated by promises of the popes, furnished the first ground of their feudal claims.

Thus, on his arrival at Cephalonia, he informs us that Robert Guiscard died there.

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