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Count Of Syracuse
Count of Syracuse may refer to: * Jordan of Hauteville (1060–1092), count of Syracuse (1091–1092); reconquest from Arab holding in 1091 * Tancred, Count of Syracuse (12th century; ) * Simon, Count of Syracuse (12th century; ) * Alamanno da Costa (died 1229), count of Syracuse (1190s–stripped 1208) * Prince Leopold, Count of Syracuse (life 1813–1860), count of Syracuse (1816–1860) See also * Tyrant of Syracuse * Duke of Syracuse * List of mayors of Syracuse, Sicily * Syracuse (other) {{SIA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Of Hauteville
Jordan of Hauteville (–1092) was the eldest son and bastard of Roger I of Sicily. A fighter, he took part, from an early age, in the conquests of his father in Sicily. Jordan is named as son of Count Roger's first marriage in ''Europäische Stammtafeln'' but, according to Geoffrey Malaterra, his mother was a concubine of Roger I. Her origin is unknown. In 1077, at the siege of Trapani, one of two Saracen strongholds remaining in the west of the island, Jordan led a sortie which successfully surprised the guards of the garrison's grazing animals. Its food supply now cut off, the city soon surrendered. He was present at the siege of Taormina in 1079 and, in 1081, with Robert of Sourdeval (or Sourval) and Elias Cartomensis (a Saracen turncoat), he retook the city of Catania from the last emir of Syracuse, Italy, Syracuse, Benavert, Ibn Abbad, in another surprise attack. The next year, while his father was away helping Robert Guiscard, his brother the Duke of Apulia, Jordan was left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
