Stelle Longobardi igitur Apulienses, genu...; (De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100), I, 13) [4108]

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Keywords	Ethnonym: Apuli, [wurzel: Apul] Ethnonym: Langobardi, [wurzel: langobard] Ethnonym: Normanni, [wurzel: Normann] Keyword: genus, [wurzel: gener]
ID	4108
Text	De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra
Quotation	Longobardi igitur Apulienses, genus semper perfidissimum, traditionem per universam Apuliam silenter ordinant, ut omnes Normanni una die occiderentur … Normannosque, qui periculum traditionis evaserant, sibi alligans, in vindictam fraternae necis insurgit
Translation	The Apulian Lombards are always a most treacherous race, and they conceived a secret plot to murder all the Normans throughout Apulia on the same day … those Normans who had escaped this dangerous conspiracy bound themselves to him.
Quotation source	I, 13
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Comment	They bound themselves to Humphrey Abelard. Descriptor for the Lombards: genus semper perfidissimum.