Stelle Calabrenses denique, genus semper ...; (De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100), I, 28) [4112]

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Text De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra
Quotation Calabrenses denique, genus semper perfidissimum, cum viderent, fratribus inter se dissidentibus, sese a nemine visitari, coeperunt jugum Normannorum a se excutere et servitium, quod juraverant, vel tributum minime persolvere. Unde et simulatione fidelitatis traditione composita, castrum Neocastrense accipientes, sexaginta Normannos, qui ad tuendum ibi castrum relicti erant, una die peremerunt.
Translation The Calabrians are always a most untrustworthy people. When they saw that the brothers were at loggerheads with each other and that neither of them therefore would visit their land, they began to throw off the Norman yoke, and refused to pay the tribute and service which they had sworn to give. An agreement was negotiated to surrender a fortress called Neocastro, with the Calabrians simulating good faith, but that same day they slew the sixty Normans who had been left as its garrison.
Quotation source I, 28
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Comment The Calabrians began to throw off the Norman Yoke. Latin descriptor for Calabrians: genus semper perfidissimum.