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Hugo Falcandus

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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). [1]

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Admiral

Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.

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Basilica of St Denis

The Basilica of Saint Denis (Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis) is a large medieval abbey church in the city of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris.

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Cacography

Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.

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Eugenius of Palermo

Eugenius of Palermo (also Eugene) (Eugenius Siculus, Εὐγενἠς Εὐγένιος ὁ τῆς Πανόρμου, Eugenio da Palermo; 1130 – 1202) was an amiratus (admiral) of the Kingdom of Sicily in the late twelfth century.

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Evelyn Jamison

Evelyn Mary Jamison (24 February 1877 - 1972) was a British medievalist who devoted herself mainly to the study of the history of the Normans in Sicily.

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Foucaud

Foucaud is a surname.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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John Julius Norwich

John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, (15 September 1929 – 1 June 2018), known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, travel writer and television personality.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Palermo

Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.

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Roger II of Sicily

Roger II (22 December 1095Houben, p. 30. – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon.

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Tacitus

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (–) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.

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The Latin Library

The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts.

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Thucydides

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης,, Ancient Attic:; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.

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William I of Sicily

William I (1120 or 1121 – May 7, 1166), called the Bad or the Wicked (Gugghiermu lu Malu, was the second King of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own in 1166. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira of Castile. William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Hugo Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided.

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William II of Sicily

William II (December 1153 – 11 November 1189), called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Falcandus

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