Ibn ‘Abbād, also known as Benavert, was the last
Emir of Sicily. He was the Emir of
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, and from 1072 to 1086 he led the last
Arab
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resistance against the
Normans
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, who were
conquering Sicily.
In 1075 he defeated
Jordan of Hauteville Jordan of Hauteville (after 1055 – 12/18/19 September 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.
In 1077, at the siege of Trapani, one of tw ...
, the son of
Grand Count Roger I, at
Catania
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, and he reconquered the city in 1081. In 1085 he led some expeditions to
Reggio, in
Calabria
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. On 25 May 1086, while Roger I was besieging Syracuse, he fell into the sea while jumping from one boat to the other, and died because of his heavy armor. His wife and his son fled to the city of
Noto
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, which also fell together with
Butera
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, in 1091.
One of his descendants,
Muhammad ibn ‘Abbād, rebelled to Frederick of Sicily at the start of the 13th century, dying during the rebellion.
References
* Michele Amari, Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia, Catane, 1939
1086 deaths
11th-century Arab people
Emirs of Sicily
Year of birth unknown
Slave owners
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