Reginald Front-de-Boeuf

For who does not know that the race of the Normans declines no labour in the continual practice of valour?

[Reginald Front-de-Boeuf @RFrontdeBoeuf]

This page is dedicated to the greatest warriors of Medieval Europe!

From Ireland to Jerusalem they thundered across the battlefield terrorising their foes!

'For who does not know that the race of the Normans declines no labour in in the continual practice of valour?'

Onward!

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On this day in the year of our Lord 1097,

Bohemond camps with the vanguard of the First Crusade army at Dorylaeum while Kilij Arslan and his Turkic army approaches!

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On this day in the year of our Lord 1080,

Pope Gregory VII and Robert Guiscard reached a deal in which the Pope recognised Guiscard's holdings in Italy.

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On this day in the year of our Lord 1119,

Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch, upon learning that the host of the invading emir Ilghazi is so close, sends his treasury away and takes up a defensive position at Athareb and prepares to face the enemy!

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On this day in the year of our Lord 1098,

The warriors of the First Crusade, having recently captured Antioch, sent Peter the Hermit and a Persian speaking envoy to tell the Turkoman atabeg of Mosul, Kerbogha, to withdraw and take his relief army with him or face destruction.

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‘Doing it in the sun of Southern Italy was probably more fun than doing it in Hauteville’

- Chris Wickham on the Norman conquerers

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This day in the year of our Lord 1088 saw the death of William de Warenne.

A companion of William the Conqueror, de Warenne took part in the battle of Mortemer, in which the Normans thrashed the King of France, and the Battle of Hastings and also fought the rebels of Ely!

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This day in the year our Lord 1185 saw the city of Dyrrachium surrender to the Italo-Normans under Richard, Count of Acerra and Tancred, future king of Sicily.

This was the first engagement of the Third Norman Invasion of the Balkans.

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A Norman lord is ambushed by Welsh bandits

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Norman mercenaries gambling in Constantinople

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The Norman arrival in Sicily!

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The Norman siege of Bari