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	William II of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William II (1153 - 1189), king of Sicily, was only thirteen years old at the death of his father William I when he was placed under the regency of his mother, Marguerite of Navarre.
		To secure peace with the emperor 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.
		Durazzo was captured (June 11, 1185) and in August Thessalonica surrendered to the joint attack of the Sicilian fleet and army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_II_of_Sicily (586 words)

	William I of Sicily
		William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided.
		William, however, was not devoid of military energy; landing in Italy he destroyed the Greek fleet and army at Brindisi (May 28, 1156) and recovered Bari.
		William married Margaret of Navarre, daughter of Garcia IV Ramirez of Navarre.
	www.ukpedia.com /w/william-i-of-sicily.html (485 words)

	William II's foreign policy (England of the Plantagenets) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The relations between Henry II Plantagenet and William II of Sicily were in the framework of a complex diplomatic game acted out, at a European level, in the confrontation between the Pope and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
		William II of Sicily, supported by the Pope, was an important interlocutor.
		William married Joanna (11 years old), the daughter of Henry II of England, and Eleanor of Acquitaine in Palermo.
	www.mondes-normands.caen.fr /angleterre/histoires/medit/8/medit8_6.htm (314 words)

	Norman Succession in Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		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.
		Henry II and Philip II patched up their quarrel and made peace on the very battlefield, and a number of nobles took the cross on the spot.
		William of Sicily was the first to respond, when he sent a fleet to Tripoli.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/thirdcru.html (5366 words)

	Roger_II_of_Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When William the duke of Apulia, son of Roger Borsa and grandson of Robert Guiscard, died childless in June of 1127, Roger claimed all Hauteville possessions and the overlordship of Capua.
		However the union of Sicily and Apulia was resisted by Honorius II and by the subjects of the duchy itself.
		Roger II married secondly to Sibyl of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, but she died a year later in 1150.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Roger_II_of_Sicily (1009 words)

	William II of Sicily -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Until the king came of age in 1171 the government was controlled first by the chancellor Stephen of Perche, cousin of Marguerite (1166-1168), and then by Walter Ophamil, archbishop of (The capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years) Palermo, and Matthew d'Ajello, the vice-chancellor.
		Champion of the (The government of the Roman Catholic Church) papacy and in secret league with the (A member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century) Lombard cities he was able to defy the common enemy, (Click link for more info and facts about Frederick I, Barbarossa) Frederick I, Barbarossa.
		This step, fatal to the (An inhabitant of Normandy) Norman kingdom, was possibly taken that William might devote himself to foreign conquests.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_ii_of_sicily1.htm (349 words)

	Paradise. Canto XX. Dante Alighieri. 1909-14. The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the pupil is David; and, in the circle round it, Trajan, Hezekiah, Constantine, William II of Sicily, and Ripheus.
		William II, called “the Good,” King of Sicily, at the latter part of the twelfth century.
		His loss was as much the subject of regret in his dominions, as the presence of Charles II of Anjou, and Frederick of Arragon, was of sorrow.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/20/320.html (926 words)

	William II of Sicily: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about William II of Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1189), king of Sicily, was only thirteen years old at the death of his father William I when he was placed under the regency of his mother, Marguerite of Navarre[?].
		To secure peace with the emperor he sanctioned the marriage of his aunt Constance, daughter of Roger II, with Frederick's son Henry, afterwards the emperor Henry V, causing a general oath to be taken to her as his successor in case of his death without heirs.
		The "Voyage" of Ibn-Giobair[?], a traveller in Sicily in 1183-1185, shows William surrounded by Moslem women and eunuchs, speaking and reading Arabic and living like "a Moslem king."
	www.encyclopedian.com /wi/William-II-of-Sicily.html (525 words)

	1167 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily
		William Marshal, "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted
		England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154 - 1189).
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1167 (206 words)

	woodgate - pafg128 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William II the Good King of Sicily [Parents] was born in 1166.
		William I the Conqueror King of England [Parents] was born in 1027/1028 in Falaise,Normandy,France.
		William II Rufus King of England was born in 1056/1060 in Normandy,France.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~woodgate/pafg128.htm (378 words)

	List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constance of Sicily 1194-1198, married to Henry VI
		Ferdinand IV (III of Sicily) 1759-1806 (continued to reign in Sicily until 1815, when he was restored in Naples as well)
		Ferdinand I (formerly Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily) 1815-1825
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Naples_and_Sicily (143 words)

	Articles - Joan of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was a younger sister of William, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda of England, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Leonora of Aquitaine.
		Following William's death in 1189, she was kept a prisoner by the new king, Tancred of Sicily.
		Born in 1321 at the Tower of London, Joan was the youngest daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France.
	lastring.com /articles/Joanna_of_England?mySession=661c58d8f371caeac... (1149 words)

	Crusades and Pilgrimages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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, saving Tripoli and Tyre.
		While King William II of Sicily was the first to respond to the appeal, sending a fleet, the first army actually to depart was led by the emperor of the Romans, Frederick I, whom the Italians had nicknamed "Barbarossa."
		King William II of Sicily had promised a fleet to accompany the crusaders, but William had died in November of 1189, and the succession was in dispute.
	www.kenanderson.net /bible/the_crusades.html (1727 words)

	The Light & the Dark: VADEMECUM - THE STAUFER ERA II
		When King William II of Sicily died in 1189, Constance was the only one with a hereditary right to the throne.
		He was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Germany, of Burgundy, of Lombardy, and of Sicily, the suzerain of the Kings of England and Bohemia, and the Protector of the Roman Church.
		Frederick II died on December 13, 1250, in Apulia of dysentery.
	home.wanadoo.nl /piet.fontaine/volumes/staufer_2.htm (3426 words)

	SICILY
		(The treacherous whirlpools and undertoe in the strait inspired the ancient legend of Scylla and Charybdis.) Sicily is a triangular island, bounded on the Southwest by the Mediterrean Sea, on the North by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the East by the Ionian Sea.
		Sicily is comprised of nine regions (Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, and Trapani) and many smaller islands (the Egadi Islands, the Lipari Islands, the Pelagie Islands which include Lampedusa, Pantelleria island, and Ustica island).
		Sicily passed briefly to the house of Savoy (1713) and then to the Austrian Habsburgs (1720), but in 1734, during the War of the Polish Succession, both Sicily and Naples were conquered by the Spanish Bourbon prince Charles.
	www.leonardociampa.com /SicilyArticle.html (3021 words)

	WWII Campaigns: Sicily
		While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose.
		World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years.
		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.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/Brochures/72-16/72-16.htm (7851 words)

	AllRefer.com - William II, king of Sicily (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		When he died childless, his kingdom was claimed by his aunt Constance, whom he had designated as his successor, but the crown went instead to his cousin Tancred of Lecce.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Will2Scly.html (240 words)

	William II of Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1174 and 1175 he made treaties with Genoa and Venice and his marriage in February 1177 with Joan, daughter of II of England">Henry II of England, marks his high position in European politics.
		To secure peace with the emperor he sanctioned the marriage of his aunt Constance, daughter of II of Sicily">Roger II, with Frederick's son Henry, afterwards the emperor Henry V, causing a general oath to be taken to her as his successor in case of his death without heirs.
		The troops then marched upon the capital, but the troop of the emperor II Angelus">Isaac Angelus overthrew the invaders on the banks of the Strymon (September 7, 1185).
	www.termsdefined.net /wi/william-ii-of-sicily.html (597 words)

	EUSTATHIUS (OF THESSALONICA) - LoveToKnow Article on EUSTATHIUS (OF THESSALONICA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was outspoken and independent, and did not hesitate to oppose the emperor Manuel, when the latter desired an alteration in the formula of abjuration necessary for converts from Mahommedanism.
		In 1185, when Thessalonica was captured by the Normans under William II.
		His best known work is his Commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (irape~q3oXai, critical compilations), valuable as containing numerous extracts from the scholia of other critics, whose works have now perished.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EU/EUSTATHIUS_OF_THESSALONICA_.htm (391 words)

	Ancestors of Dylan James Schiele
		She was married to Berenger II King of Italy.
		William I, The Conqueror Duke of Normandy was born on 14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Calvados, France.
		Children were: William Fredrick Williams, Cindy Louise Williams, Walter Daniel Williams.
	jjhnsn.tripod.com /dylan/d172.htm (1009 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - William II (of Sicily)
		William I (of Sicily) (1120-66), Norman king of Sicily (1154-66).
		The son of King Roger II, William continued his father's policy of excluding the...
		William II (of Germany and Prussia): Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (picture)
	encarta.msn.com /William_II_(of_Sicily).html (194 words)

	Tancred, king of Sicily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The Sicilian crown was, however, claimed by Constance, who was William’s aunt.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ta/Tancred1.html (126 words)

	Normans in Sicily
		This is an overview of the History of Norman Sicily and not meant to substitute for proper research.
		By 1059 Pope Nicholas II gives Robert Guiscard (known as Robert “the Resourceful” or “the Weasel” depending on which accounts you read) Apulia and Calabria and whatever else he can hold for his pledge of service to the Pope.
		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)

	My Lines - Person Page 374 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She married Vladimir Izyaslavich, son of Izyaslav II Mstislavich, Prince of Pereyaslavl and Kiev, in 1150.
		Vladimir Izyaslavich was the son of Izyaslav II Mstislavich, Prince of Pereyaslavl and Kiev.
		Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London was the son of Sir Gerard II Braybrooke Kt., M.P. and Isabel Hampden.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p374.htm (8242 words)

	Heinrich VI (1165-1197) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		German king and Holy Roman emperor of the Hohenstaufen dyansty who increased his power and that of his dynasty by his acquisition of the kingdom of Sicily through his marriage to Constance I, posthumous daughter of the Sicilian king Roger II.
		In November 1189, William II of Sicily died, leaving his father's half sister Constance heiress to the Sicilian kingdom, then consisting of the island of Sicily and the southern part of the Italian peninsula.
		Meanwhile in Sicily a nationalist party unwilling to be governed by a German emperor chose Tancred, an illegitimate son of Constance's brother Roger, as king of Sicily.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/EmperorHeinrich-VI/EmperorHeinrich-VI.html (533 words)

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