Italo-Norman wars

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The Italo-Norman wars were a series of 11th-century conflicts in southern Italy and surrounding regions, in which Norman adventurers and mercenaries fought local powers and the Byzantine and Papal authorities to establish Norman rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf medieval conflict
series of wars
cause Norman search for land and wealth
fragmentation of Lombard rule
power vacuum in southern Italy
weakening of Byzantine control in Italy
conflictType conquest war
consequence formation of a Latin Christian kingdom in Sicily
integration of southern Italy into Western Latin Christendom
hasPart Battle of Civitate
Battle of Durazzo (1081)
Battle of Montepeloso
Norman campaigns in the Balkans
Norman conquest of Sicily
Norman conquest of southern Italy
Siege of Bari (1068–1071)
conflicts with Lombard princes
conflicts with the Byzantine Empire
conflicts with the Papacy
historicalPeriod High Middle Ages
location Adriatic Sea region
Apulia
Calabria
Campania
Sicily
Tyrrhenian Sea region
linked to: Tyrrhenian region

southern Italy
mainParticipants Byzantine Empire
Emirate of Sicily
Lombard principalities
Normans
Papal States
opponent Byzantine Empire
Emirate of Sicily
Lombard principalities of southern Italy
Papal States
local Italian nobility
relatedTo Norman conquest of England
Norman conquest of Sicily
Norman expansion
result decline of Byzantine power in southern Italy
establishment of Norman rule in Sicily
establishment of Norman rule in southern Italy
rise of the Kingdom of Sicily
weakening of Lombard principalities
significantCommander Drogo of Hauteville
George Maniakes
Humphrey of Hauteville
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Leo IX
Pope Nicholas II
Robert Guiscard
Roger I of Sicily
William Iron Arm
startTime 11th century

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Battle of Civitate partOf Italo-Norman wars
Byzantine–Latin conflicts significantEvent Byzantine–Sicilian conflicts
linked to: Italo-Norman wars
Battle of Cannae (1018) partOf Byzantine–Lombard–Norman struggles in southern Italy
linked to: Italo-Norman wars
Giorgio Maniace conflict Byzantine–Norman conflicts in southern Italy
linked to: Italo-Norman wars