13.3 The Battle of Civitate 1053 AD, Part 3

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 18 January 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Normans arrive in Italy first as pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land, then as mercenaries. It is not long before they begin to acquire territories and titles on the peninsula in their own right.www.historyeurope.net

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0:03.5	Bampa!
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0:26.2	Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game-specific rules apply.
0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Welcome to a history of Europe.
0:48.3	Key Battles, the Battle of Chivotate Part 3 of 4.
0:55.8	In the previous two weeks I described the history of Italy from the fall of the Western Roman Empire until the year 1025.
1:04.9	At this point, the Byzantine Empire was in the ascendancy in southern Italy, but still faced almost constant conflict with the
1:12.8	various Lombard dukes, as well as the Arabs, the Emperor in Germany, and the Pope. Also, the
1:20.4	first Norman mercenaries were beginning to have a significant effect on the fighting between the
1:25.7	various sides vying for power, happy to switch
1:28.7	sides as it suited them.
1:32.4	I will say more about the origins of the Normans in the next podcast on the Battle of Hastings.
1:39.0	It's enough to say here that they were descendants of Viking raiders, who in the early
1:43.5	9th century settled in a region of
1:46.0	northern France that came to be called Normandy. After only two or three generations,
1:53.0	they had adopted the French language and faith and culture of Christendom.
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