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Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
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Battle of Civitate
1053 battle between the Normans and a coalition of Swabian, Italian, and Lombard forces
The Battle of Civitate was fought on 18 June 1053 in southern Italy, between the Normans, led by the Count of Apulia Humphrey of Hauteville, and a Swabian-Italian-Lombard army, organised by Pope Leo IX and led on the battlefield by Gerard, Duke of Lorraine, and Rudolf, Prince of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Normans
European ethnic group
The Normans were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia. The Norse settlements in West Francia followed a series of raids on the French northern coast mainly from what is now Denmark,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Humphrey of Hauteville
Count of Apulia and Calabria from 1051 to 1057
Humphrey of Hauteville, also nicknamed Abelard, was the third Norman Count of Apulia. He succeeded his brother Drogo.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pope Leo IX
Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
Pope Leo IX, born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054. Leo IX is considered to be one of the most historically significant popes of the Middle Ages; he was instrumental in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)