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Robert Guiscard

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[raw-ber gee-skar] / rɔ bɛr giˈskar /

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In 1071 it was captured by Robert Guiscard.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

It seems, however, to have fallen and to have been broken in pieces, nearly three hundred years later, during the terrible conflagration caused by the Norman troops of Robert Guiscard.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

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

Robert Guiscard founds the Norman Sovereignty in Italy, § 95, 1.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Robert Guiscard in Naples and Sicily, 180, note.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey