Italo-Normans

Palazzo dei Normanni, the palace of the Norman kings in Palermo.
Bronze lion attributed to an Italo-Norman artist (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

The Italo-Normans (Italian: Italo-Normanni), or Siculo-Normans (Siculo-Normanni) when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to Southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. While maintaining much of their distinctly Norman piety and customs of war, they were shaped by the diversity of Southern Italy, by the cultures and customs of the Greeks, Lombards, and Arabs in Sicily.


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