The Normans are most famously remembered as the last conquerors of England. But they conquered anoth
The Normans are most famously remembered as the last conquerors of England. But they conquered another island too – Sicily. In 1059, around the First Crusade, some Normans were given title to Sicily by the pope, partially because he wanted someone to take if from the infidel Muslims and partially because he wanted the Normans to stop raiding his lands. (The mosaic is Roger II, son of the conqueror Roger I, being crowned King of Sicily on Christmas Day 1130. Before that he had been a paltry Duke.) -- source link
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