Pope Honorius II preached a crusade against this man, who, after being crowned on Christmas Day 1130, quickly found himself having to fight a coalition of Louis VI of France, Henry I of England, and the emperor Lothair.
Pope Honorius II preached a crusade against this man, who, after being crowned on Christmas Day 1130, quickly found himself having to fight a coalition of Louis VI of France, Henry I of England, and the emperor Lothair. The Arab geographer Idrisi and the historian Nilus Doxopatrius were present at his court and he made the Kingdom of Sicily a leading maritime power. The nephew of Robert Guiscard, FTP, who was this first king of Sicily, who united all the Norman conquests into one kingdom.
Pope Honorius II preached a crusade against this man, who, after being crowned on Christmas Day 1130, quickly found himself having to fight a coalition of Louis VI of France, Henry I of England, and the emperor Lothair.
{Roger II} or {Roger the Great}