Sack of Rome

When

May 1084

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

41.89° N, 12.51° E

Description

1084 by the Normans under Robert Guiscard

Placed at the town its title names, Rome.

Norman forces sack Rome

In May 1084, Italo-Normans sacked Rome, the result of the Pope Gregory VII's call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard. The pope had been besieged in the Castel Sant'Angelo by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in June 1083 and called for aid from Guiscard, who was then fighting the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sack of Rome: Duke Robert Guiscard leads a Norman army (36,000 men) north and enters Rome; the city is sacked, and Henry IV is forced to retreat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Robert Guiscard, Normand allié de Grégoire VII se présente devant Rome”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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