Norman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lar

Episode 20 - The Norman Achievement

The Principality of Antioch outlasted the Norman Kingdom of Sicily by a century, and its founder...

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Episode 19 - Bohemond - Part 2 - Bohemond in the East

The First Crusade fell like a present into Bohemond's lap. Italy wasn't big enough for his...

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Episode 18 - Bohemond - Part 1

A great father can be both a blessing and a curse, and no one was more aware of that than...

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Episode 17 - Stupor Mundi

Frederick II was the most polarizing figure to rule as king of Sicily. To some he was the...

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Episode 16 - Tancred of Lecce

Tancred of Lecce came to the throne of Sicily in its darkest hour. Mocked by his critics as the...

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Episode 15 - William the Good

William II presided over a golden age of internal peace and prosperity, and when he died suddenly...

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Episode 14 - William the Bad

If Roger II had been the 'baptized Sultan', his son William forgot the water. Despised by his...

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Episode 13 - Rogerios Rex

In the Spring of 1133 the new Norman Kingdom of Sicily seemed about to be shattered. Roger II,...

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Episode 12 - Rise of a King

Roger II was never supposed to inherit his father's possessions. He was the youngest of 18...

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Episode 11 - The Great Count

Roger de Hauteville was a strange conqueror. The youngest of twelve sons he was the last to come...

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Episode 10 - The Byzantine Wars

By 1071 Robert Guiscard had risen to the height of power in Italy. The grumbling Lombards had...

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Episode 9 - The Rise of Robert Guiscard

Robert Guiscard arrived in Italy as a simple knight, hoping to benefit from his brother's wealth...

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Episode 8 - William Iron-Arm

In Duke Richard II's Normandy an impoverished knight named Tancred de Hauteville struggled to...

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Episode 7 - After Hastings

King Harold wanted nothing more than a peaceful reign, but was destined to spend his time on the...

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Episode 6 - The Two Harolds

England on the eve of the Conquest was torn between the old King Edward the Confessor and the...

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Episode 5 - William the Conqueror

The young Duke William seemed destined not to survive his childhood. Orphaned before he was ten,...

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Episode 4 - Magnificent Devil

The reign of Robert I began under the dark suspicion of murder and descended into chaos as the...

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