Richard II of Aquila was an
Italo-Norman nobleman and count of
Fondi. He was descended from a prominent
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
family from
L'Aigle (Italianised as ''Aquila'', both meaning "eagle"). He was one of the premier rebels against
William I of Sicily during the first years of his reign. In May 1156, Richard betrayed the rebels of
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
and opened that city to the ravages of a vengeful William.
Sources
*
Hugo Falcandus Hugo Falcandus was a historian who chronicled the reign of William I of Sicily and the minority of his son William II in a highly critical work entitled ''The History of the Tyrants of Sicily'' (or ''Liber de Regno Sicilie''). The Latin of the work ...
''History of the Tyrants of Sicily''at
The Latin Library.
*
Norwich, John Julius. ''The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194''. London: Longman, 1970.
External links
1154–1166: Guglielmo il Malo — Maione — Matteo Bonello
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Italo-Normans
Norman warriors
Counts of Aquila
12th-century Italian nobility