catapan of Italy, Michael Doukeianos, appointed Arduin the ruler of Melfi. Melfi, however, soon joined other Apulian Lombards in a revolt against Byzantine... 5 KB (563 words) - 23:10, 25 March 2024 |
Mary Melfi is a Canadian writer of Italian descent. She is a prolific poet, novelist, and playwright. Melfi was born in Casacalenda, a small mountain town... 8 KB (907 words) - 03:30, 11 October 2023 |
Apulia. By 1040 the Byzantines had lost most of that province. In 1042 Melfi was chosen as the Norman capital, and in September of that year the Normans... 32 KB (3,701 words) - 11:14, 6 April 2024 |
apparent to the Kingdom of Sicily. William I of Hauteville returned to Melfi in September 1042 and was recognized by all the Normans as supreme leader... 13 KB (914 words) - 20:27, 4 May 2024 |
contingent. Boioannes decided on trying to isolate the Lombard rebels in Melfi by camping near Montepeloso. According to William of Apulia, prior to battle... 3 KB (480 words) - 19:08, 30 November 2021 |
alliance between the Normans and Guaimar. At Melfi in 1043, Guaimar divided the region (except for Melfi itself, which was to be governed on a republican... 63 KB (8,171 words) - 02:58, 10 May 2024 |
advanced north into Norman territory, laying siege to the walled town of Melfi in the heart of the Norman county. He was aided in this by the revolt of... 5 KB (623 words) - 07:05, 14 June 2021 |
(1041). In 1042, Drogo was one of the twelve Norman leaders who met at Melfi to elect his brother William their first count under Guaimar's suzerainty... 6 KB (658 words) - 11:33, 24 August 2023 |
Richard was raised to the title of Duke by Pope Nicholas II at the Synod of Melfi at the end of August. In the first few years of marriage, Sikelgaita appears... 20 KB (2,538 words) - 07:44, 31 March 2024 |
After six more years, and three more anti-Norman popes, the Treaty of Melfi (1059) marked the recognition of the Norman power in South Italy. There... 21 KB (2,965 words) - 08:21, 25 January 2024 |
under Maniakes. Dokeianos also offered the rule of strategic fortress of Melfi to the Milanese mercenary Arduin, with the title of topoteretes. Arduin... 10 KB (1,304 words) - 11:56, 23 December 2023 |
Kent, in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest Office of Jennifer Melfi, on The Sopranos Marnie Michaels, on Girls Thomas Ball (1819–1911), sculptor... 162 KB (19,895 words) - 03:49, 4 March 2024 |
besieging Benedict in Galeria and, in 1059, Nicholas convened a synod at Melfi where he confirmed Robert Guiscard as duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily... 12 KB (1,743 words) - 14:38, 30 March 2024 |