- The
Drengots were a
Norman family of mercenaries, one of the
first to head to
Southern Italy to
fight in the
service of the Lombards. They
became the most...
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Rainulf Drengot (also Ranulph, Ranulf, or Rannulf; c. 990 – June 1045) was a
Norman adventurer and
mercenary in
southern Italy. In 1030 he
became the...
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Osmond Drengot (c. 985 – 1
October 1018) was one of the
first Norman adventurers in the Mezzogiorno. He was the son of a petty, but rich, lord of Carreaux...
- Gargano.
Another story involves the
exile of a
group of
brothers from the
Drengot family. One of the brothers,
Osmund (according to
Orderic Vitalis) or Gilbert...
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Rudolph Drengot was one of the
Drengot family of
Norman adventureres who came to
Southern Italy with his brothers, Gilbert, Asclettin, Osmond, and Ranulf...
- and
Rainulf Drengot,
Count of Aversa, and
offered both an alliance. With the
unification of the
Norman families of
Altavilla and
Drengot,
Guaimar gave...
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Norman mercenaries to
battle their rivals; Duke
Sergius IV
hired Rainulf Drengot to wage war on
Capua for him. By 1137, the
Normans had
attained great influence...
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descendants of
Tancred of
Hauteville and the
Drengot family. A
group of
Normans with at
least five
brothers from the
Drengot family fought the
Byzantines in Apulia...
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Richard Drengot (c. 1025 – died 1078) was the
count of
Aversa (1049–1078),
prince of
Capua (1058–1078, as
Richard I) and duke of
Gaeta (1064–1078). Richard...
- Hauteville,
Rainulf Drengot and
Guimond de
Moulins pla****
important parts in the
conquest of
southern Italy and the Crusades. The
Drengot lineage, de Hauteville's...
