| Quotation |
Anno ergo MXCI Rogerius dux, contra Cusentinos diu rebelles indignatus, exercitu ab omni Apulia coadunato, fratre Boamundo secum accepto, ipsos mense majo obsessum ire disponens, avunculum comitem a Sicilia, ut, sibi auxilium ferendo, illuc occurrere non differat, invitat. Ille, amore nepotis, ab omni Sicilia multa Saracenorum millia excitans, sed et militum copias conducens, quo invitabatur haud segniter accelerat |
| Translation |
In the year 1091, enraged with the prolonged rebellion of the inhabitants of Cosenza, Duke Roger raised an army from all over Apulia, and brought his brother Bohemond with him, intending to go there to besiege the town in the month of May. He requested his uncle the Count of Sicily to come there, without fail, to bring him help. Because of his affection for his nephew, the count raised many thousand Saracens from every part of Sicily and, bringing with him a strong force of knights, at once journeyed to the place where he had been asked to go |
