catapan of Italy, Michael Doukeianos, appointed Arduin the ruler of Melfi. Melfi, however, soon joined other Apulian Lombards in a revolt against Byzantine...

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...

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...

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...

contingent. Boioannes decided on trying to isolate the Lombard rebels in Melfi by camping near Montepeloso. According to William of Apulia, prior to battle...

Apulia from 1134 until his death. Roger's first public act took place at Melfi in 1129, where, though still a child, he accepted the fealty of some rebellious...

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...

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...

(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...

Calabria (1043). Guaimar, in accordance with good feudal theory, granted them Melfi and the republican model on which it was set up. The feudal grounding was...

elected leader, William Iron Arm, with the title of count in his capital of Melfi. The Drengot family thereafter attained the principality of Capua, and Emperor...

Editori. p. 380. Powell J.M. (1971). The Liber Augustalis or Constitutions of Melfi Promulgated by Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231 (1st ed...

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...

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...

under Maniakes. Dokeianos also offered the rule of strategic fortress of Melfi to the Milanese mercenary Arduin, with the title of topoteretes. Arduin...

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...

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...