Norman Consolidation in Southern Italy

Name: Norman Consolidation in Southern Italy
Start: 1090
End: 1099

Type Event Region Southern Italy Time 1090–1099

In the 1090s, the Normans further consolidated their rule over Apulia, Calabria, and other areas in southern Italy, with lords like Roger Borsa and B…

Timeline

1090–1095Bari · ApuliaRoger Borsa, as Duke of Apulia, continued to integrate the eastern territories of the peninsula in the 1090s, managing relations with Pope Urban II and local Lombard nobles, and consolidating Norman overlordship in Apulia.
1096–1099Taranto · ApuliaNorman lords such as Bohemond expanded their influence toward Taranto and Calabria; by the late 1090s the territorial divisions among Norman branches in the south of the peninsula were becoming clearer, creating conditions for political mobilization on the eve of the First Crusade.

Sources

The Normans in the South, 1016–1130 — John Julius Norwich (1967)
The Age of Robert Guiscard: The Normans in the South — G. A. Loud (2000)