A story about this figure's death says he was overcome with fever at Ather and asked for cold water, and when a native told his men that a cold spring was at a town called Jerusalem, he knew he was prophesied to die there. That story appears in a work about his deeds by the monk Geoffrey Malaterra. This man's older half-brother Drogo gave him a castle at Scribla, while his younger brother Humphrey joined him in battle against Pope Leo IX at the Battle of Civitate. Soon after that, he reconciled with the Papacy and was invested as duke at the Council of Melfi. More famously, he won the Battle o
A story about this figure's death says he was overcome with fever at Ather and asked for cold water, and when a native told his men that a cold spring was at a town called Jerusalem, he knew he was prophesied to die there. That story appears in a work about his deeds by the monk Geoffrey Malaterra. This man's older half-brother Drogo gave him a castle at Scribla, while his younger brother Humphrey joined him in battle against Pope Leo IX at the Battle of Civitate. Soon after that, he reconciled with the Papacy and was invested as duke at the Council of Melfi. More famously, he won the Battle of Dyrrachium in 1081 over the force of Alexius Comnenus, and took an epithet meaning "the clever." For 10 points, name this son of Tancred de Hauteville, a knight from Normandy who became duke of Apulia.
A story about this figure's death says he was overcome with fever at Ather and asked for cold water, and when a native told his men that a cold spring was at a town called Jerusalem, he knew he was prophesied to die there.
Robert Guiscard