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| | Roger II, king of Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Pope Honorius II, who had just ended, victoriously, his quarrel with the Empire, had little drift with the unruly Norman power. |
 | | In August 1128 the Pope was forced to grant Roger II, his uncle’s title, ‘duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily’, thus establishing the unity of the mainland of Mezzogiorno and Sicily. |
 | | Roger II returned to Sicily in 1130, and on 25 December 1130, Pope Anaclectus II, who due to his controversial authority, was forced to ally with Roger, crowned him king of Sicily and ratified all his possessions, including Capua and the honour of Naples, not yet conquered. |
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