Battle of Brindisi (1156)

Battle of Brindisi (1156)
	Part of Byzantine–Norman Wars
	; William I of Sicily
Date	28 May 1156
Location	Brindisi
Result	Sicilian victory
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Kingdom of Sicily
Commanders and leaders
Robert of Loritello; Alexios Komnenos	William I

The Battle of Brindisi (1156) was fought by the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily over control of Southern Italy.

The battle was part of a Byzantine campaign orchestrated by the emperor

Roger II and the succession of the William 'the Bad'.^[1] While the Byzantine forces managed to take control of numerous southern Italian cities, including Bari, the defeat at Brindisi, inflicted at the end of a protracted Byzantine siege of the city, effectively put an end to the Byzantine attempt at reconquest.^[2]

Following the defeat, the Byzantine diplomat Alexios Axouch arrived at the Byzantine base of Ancona in order to negotiate a favorable treaty with William. He was incredibly successful, and his negotiations allowed Manuel to exit the war with honor, despite a series of large-scale, successful Norman raids of the Aegean coasts of Greece and the consolidation of Norman Sicily under William.^[2]