Stelle magnus dolor omnes Normannos invas...; (De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100), I, 12) [4107]

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Keywords	Ethnonym: Apuli, [wurzel: Apul] Keyword: comes, [wurzel: comit] Ethnonym: Normanni, [wurzel: Normann]
ID	4107
Text	De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra
Quotation	magnus dolor omnes Normannos invasit ... Hic fratrem suum Umfredum Abagelardum comitem, apud castrum quod Lavel dicitur, virum prudentissimum, consilio Apuliensium et Normannorum ordinavit, Robertum vero Guiscardum in Calabria posuit, firmans ei castrum in valle Cratensi, in loco qui Scribla dicitur, ad debellandos Cusentinos et eos qui adhuc in Calabria rebelles erant.
Translation	All the Normans were prostrate with grief … On the advice of the Apulians and Normans he appointed his brother Humphrey Abelard, a man of great wisdom, as count at a castrum called Lavello and he sent Robert Guiscard to Calabria, granting him a castrum in the Crati valley called Scribla, from which to attack the people of Cosenza and all those who were still holding out in Calabria.
Quotation source	I, 12
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