Italo-Normans
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The Italo-Normans (Italian: Italo-Normanni), or Siculo-Normans (Siculo-Normanni) when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. While maintaining much of their distinctly Norman piety and customs of war, they were shaped by the diversity of southern Italy, by the cultures and customs of the Greeks, Lombards, and Arabs in Sicily.
History
Normans first arrived in Italy as pilgrims, probably on their way to or returning from either
Italo-Normans were the primary Norman mercenaries in the employ of the
.In 1130 under
When founded in 1130, this Italo-Norman kingdom united the whole of Southern Italy under the same rule for the first time since Justinian's brief reconquest of the peninsula as a whole. The Norman dynasty established by
Italo-Norman families
- Hauteville family
- Drengot family
- Filangieri family
- Paulo family Baroni di Sessa[2]
- Pellegrino family Baroni di San Demetrio (Adrano, Sicily)
- Parisi or Parisio family Conti di Aderno (Adrano, Sicily)
- Sanseverino family
- Trittoni family,[3] deriving from the Anglo-Norman surname "Tritton"
Notes
Further reading
- Loud, Graham A. The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (series The Medieval World) Essex: Longman 2000.
See also
- Norman conquest of southern Italy
- Byzantine–Norman wars
- Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture
- Normans in France
- Anglo-Norman, the Normans in England
- Cambro-Norman, the Normans in Wales
- Hiberno-Norman, the Normans in Ireland
- Scoto-Norman, the Normans in Scotland