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	William I of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Italy as it existed at the ascension of William I of Sicily in 1154.
		William I (died May 7, 1166), called the Bad or the Wicked, was the second king of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own.
		William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Hugo Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_I_of_Sicily (920 words)

	William of Palerne Criticism and Essays
		William of Palerne, an English translation of the late twelfth-century French romance, Le Roman de Guillaume de Palerne, was commissioned circa 1350 by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.
		When William's evil uncle, in an effort to become heir to the crown, attempts to have young William murdered, the little boy is rescued by the werewolf (Alphouns).
		William is eventually taken under the wing of the Roman emperor, and falls in love with the emperor's daughter, Melior.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/william-palerne (951 words)

	Sicilian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Elymians settled in the western Sicily, in Eryx (Erice), Segesta, and Entella.
		An unsuccessful rebellion of the Sikels in southern Sicily, led by Ducetius.
		Sicily passed briefly to the house of Savoy.
	dieli.net /SicilyPage/History/SicilianHist.html (3127 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tancred
		1194, king of Sicily (1190-94), illegitimate son of Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II of Sicily.
		On the death of his cousin, William II of Sicily, Tancred was crowned (1190) king.
		William II (William the Good), c.1153-1189, king of Sicily (1166-89), son and successor of William I. He married (1177) Joan, daughter of Henry II of England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Tancred (687 words)

	William
		King William I of England (William the Conqueror, William the Bastard)
		Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent)
		William of Tyre, Bishop in the Holy Land
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William.html (55 words)

	Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William Grylls Adams, professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London, was important for his role in the discovery of the photoelectric effect.
		William Grylls Adams was born on the 16 February 1836 in Laneast near Launceston, Cornwall, into a family of prosperous farmers, and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.
		When William Grylls Adams and his student, Richard Evans Day, discovered that an electrical current could be started in selenium solely by exposing it to light, they felt confident that they had discovered something completely new.
	www.geocities.com /neveyaakov/electro_science/adams.html (444 words)

	Best of Sicily - Early and Medieval History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was the Greeks whose mythology and folklore would assert the greatest influence on Sicily, and Sicily's museums are filled with religious artifacts and statues reflecting the important culture whose language, philosophy and law would form the very foundations of Western civilization.
		Greek myths associate the cult of Demeter, goddess of grain, with the city of Enna, high in the mountains of central Sicily; her daughter, Persephone, was abducted in a valley nearby.
		But though Sicily's Church was gradually becoming Latinized, and the Pope approved of the local crusade against the Muslims (and Frederick's own Crusade to the Holy Land), the Papacy was not always happy with the sovereign's use of power.
	www.bestofsicily.com /history2.htm (1777 words)

	Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sicily is well known as a region of art: many poets and writers were born here, starting from the Sicilian School in the early 13th century, which inspired much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard.
		Sicily was ruled as an independent kingdom by relatives of the kings of Aragon until 1409 and then as part of the Crown of Aragon.
		Sicily was the scene of major revolutionary movements in 1820 and 1848 against Bourbon denial of constitutional government.
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Sicily (3415 words)

	History of the Town of Butera
		However, the generosity of William's terms and the persuasiveness of Simon, convinced the Barons to surrender.
		William was again busy with events on the mainland but resolved to attend to Sicily first.
		Since William, with his own astrologers, was able to predict these times as well, the tactic most likely did more harm than good.
	members.tripod.com /a.butera/town_his.htm (670 words)

	Norman Succession in Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, the death of William II in 1189 without a surviving son or brother set the stage for conflict.
		However, upon Tancred's death and the accession of his son William III, Henry VI seized the throne of Sicily by force of arms, bringing the Kingdom of Sicily within the powerful ambit of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Upon Henry VI's death in 1197 the throne of Sicily passed to his remarkable son Frederick II, who was to become widely regarded as one of the most brilliant rulers in the history of European monarchy.
	www.boglewood.com /sicily/normansuccession.html (187 words)

	William II of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William II (1153–1189), called the Good, was king of Sicily and Naples from 1166 to 1189.
		William was only thirteen years old at the death of his father William I, when he was placed under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Navarre.
		To secure the peace, he sanctioned the marriage of his aunt Constance, daughter of Roger II, with Frederick's son Henry, afterwards the emperor Henry VI, causing a general oath to be taken to her as his successor in case of his death without heirs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_II_of_Sicily (696 words)

	History of Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the intervention of the Greeks in Sicily, the Phoenicians retired themselves in western Sicily, were they had their strongest settlement, which were near the Elimi (Segesta), that were their friends and on whom they could rely upon for help against potential enemies.
		William, called The Iron Arm, the oldest of the five brothers, was elected Count by his brothers and took charge of the whole army and became the undisputed leader of the Puglie.
		William, called The Bad, had many problems with the papacy, with the Roman and the Byzantine Empire, and with the aristocracy of all Southern Italy, who were bickering and fighting among themselves.
	home.att.net /~ilsiciliano/page28_history_of_sicily.htm (17748 words)

	William
		William is the modern English form of a Norman name, Willelm, comming from the Germanic name Wilhelm, or Willahelm.
		William was a later Germanic name and did not appear in England in the Anglo-Saxon period.
		It was brought to the island with William the Conqueror and the Norman French in 1066.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/w/william.html (436 words)

	WWII Campaigns: Sicily
		Thus the decision to invade Sicily represented an uneasy compromise between coalition partners, a compromise that left the commanders in the field with an imperfect understanding of the ultimate purpose of the operation.
		By happy coincidence, Sicily's other major ports—Palermo, Catania, Augusta, and Syracuse—are also clustered in the northwestern and southeastern corners of the island, as were the majority of the island's thirty major airfields.
		William Eagles, "to see that the British did not capture the city from us after we had taken it." Shortly after Patton accepted the city's surrender, a column of British vehicles slowly wound its way through Messina's crooked streets.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/72-16/72-16.htm (7851 words)

	Timeline Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		1000-1100 Sicily was in the possession of the Fatimid caliph of Cairo.
		Manfred, the bastard son of Emperor Frederik II, king of Sicily, was killed.
		The plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, appears in several varieties: bubonic (which involves swelling of the lymph glands), pneumonic (which involves the lungs) and septicemia (which involves severe infection in the bloodstream).
	timelines.ws /countries/SICILY.HTML (1425 words)

	An English Lion in Sicily - Best of Sicily Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If he's read a little about medieval Sicily, he already knows that the Normans landed at Messina just a few years before their conquest at Hastings, and that a few knights actually fought at both battles.
		Robert "Guiscard" de Hauteville and his knights may have come from humbler stock than William "the Conqueror" and his companions, but the sunny Mediterranean emirate it took them a decade to conquer was far wealthier than the cloudier Kingdom of England William siezed from the Saxons.
		Heraldry, the systematic and hereditary use of symbols on knights' shields, originated in the middle of the twelfth century.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art3.htm (662 words)

	Sicily July 10 - August 17, 1943
		The first target was the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean.
		In the drops on Sicily, the Americans were especially scattered, but both the Americans and the British caused great confusion among the Germans and accomplished their mission of covering the landings against counterattack.
		Sicily revealed many weaknesses of combined operations, but was a needed victory for the Allies.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/sicily.htm (575 words)

	Normans in Sicily
		This is an overview of the History of Norman Sicily and not meant to substitute for proper research.
		To be brief, by 1046 the Arabs of North Africa had significant holdings in the Mediterranean which included Sicily and Southern Italy.
		The whole conquest is pretty much complete by 1090, with Roger I becoming Count of Sicily and his son Roger II becoming King of Sicily and Southern Italy in 1130, which by then also includes Greece and parts of North Africa.
	www.medievalcrusades.com /normansicily.htm (465 words)

	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Summary
		William was young but childless, so to cement the alliance Frederick had his son Henry (later Henry VI) marry Constance, William's aunt and heiress to his throne.
		The next visit to Italy in 1163 saw his plans for the conquest of Sicily ruined by the formation of a powerful league against him, brought together mainly by the taxes collected by the imperial officers.
		She was betrothed to William II of Sicily but died before they could be married.
	www.bookrags.com /Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (3439 words)

	In Memory of William Thomas Scanlon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William fought in the battles in the vicinity of Troina Sicily in August 1943.
		William was awarded the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for his actions under fire, two of the U.S. Army's highest medals for valor.
		William was also awarded Two (2) purple hearts for wounds received on two (2) different occasions by hostile action while engaging the enemy.
	www.honorguard.org /scanlon.html (475 words)

	AllRefer.com - William II, king of Sicily (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William II, king of Sicily, Italian History, Biographies
		William II (William the Good), c.1153–1189, king of Sicily (1166–89), son and successor of William I. He married (1177) Joan, daughter of Henry II of England.
		As an ally of Pope Alexander III and the Lombard League, he was at war with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, but in 1184 he made peace in order to resume the attempts of his grandfather, Roger II, to conquer the Byzantine Empire.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Will2Scly.html (240 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gervase of Tilbury
		During his youth he entered the service of Henry of Guienne, later he travelled in many parts of Europe, for a time studied canon law at Bologna, where for a brief period he also taught, and was afterwards at the court of King William II of Sicily till 1189.
		Upon the death of King William he settled permanently in Arles and was appointed Marshal of the Kingdom of Arles in 1198 by King Otto IV; in virtue of this office he accompanied the king to Rome in 1209 on the occasion of his coronation as emperor.
		During the years 1210-1214 he composed the "Otia imperialia" for the instruction and entertainment of the emperor, who was excommunicated by the pope in the latter part of 1210, and in 1214, after his defeat at the battle of Bouvines, was forced to retire to the principality of Brunswick.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06536c.htm (406 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tancred, king of Sicily (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		1194, king of Sicily (1190–94), illegitimate son of Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II of Sicily.
		The Sicilian crown was, however, claimed by Constance, who was William's aunt.
		Her husband, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, made an unsuccessful expedition against Tancred in 1191 and, soon after Tancred's death, deposed (1194) Tancred's infant son, William III.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tancred1.html (207 words)

	William Robinson (1804-1859)
		William and family left Indiana between 1843 and 1850.
		William Jr was born in Indiana in 1843.
		William left Iowa after 1850 census and filed for Federal land in Franklin County Missouri, Nov 1, 1851.
	members.fortunecity.com /johndmcmullen/Robinson41301.html (2799 words)

	Sicily - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Palermo, largest city and chief port of Sicily
		attempt by Henry III to gain Sicily throne for son
		He was given command by Emperor Justinian I...
	encarta.msn.com /related_761564985_16.17.0/Belisarius.html (40 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		The news was brought by Genoese merchants to Rome in October, followed closely by the Archbishop of Tyre, come to plead for aid.
		King William II of Sicily was one of the first monarchs to hear the news and he immediately sent a fleet to the Holy Land.
		William of Sicily was the first to respond, when he sent a fleet to Tripoli.
	the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/thirdcru.html (5366 words)

	Roger II Coronation Regalia
		These tell us that the robe was created in Palermo under King William II (1153/116-1189) in the year 1181.
		In 1194 the alb, along with the coronation robe (and the blue chasuble) was inherited by the Hohenstaufen dynasty and thus passed to the empire as part of the treasure of the Norman kings.
		Along the upper and lower border run a Latin and Arabic inscriptions indicating it was made for William II in the Royal Workshop of Sicily.
	medieval.webcon.net.au /extant_alb_william_ii.html (282 words)

	82nd Airborne Division During WW II - Campaigns - Sicily
		Led by Col. James M. "Slim Jim" Gavin, the 505th PIR, and the 3rd Battalion of the 504th PIR were organized into a Regimental Combat Team.
		Their first objective was to parachute into an area around Gela on the southern shore of Sicily to close off roads leading to the beaches and secure the drop zone for the next operation.
		C-47 aircraft and took off for Sicily from the dusty airstrip near Kairouan, Tunisia.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /division/campaigns/sicily.html (870 words)

	William Stanley Haseltine ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		William Stanley Haseltine, Ruins of the Roman Theatre at Taormina, Sicily, 1889
		William Stanley Haseltine - Marina Piccola, Capri c.
		Ward, Haseltine and Haseltine (1992) William Stanley Haseltine, 1835-1900: Herbert Haseltine, 1877-1962
	wwar.com /masters/h/haseltine-william_stanley.html (408 words)

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