ABSTRACT
Chapter One examines the military contribution of southern Italy and Sicily to the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath. In so-doing, the problems relating to identification and the factors used to identify individuals are considered. It argues that there was an emergent Italo-Norman identity, shaped by the process of conquest and settlement in southern Italy and Sicily, which was recognised by contemporaries as being different to that of Normandy-Norman. The chapter identifies the ways in which this difference emerged during the First Crusade shaping both the actions and interactions of the leading participants, and how it was reflected in the practices of the early rulers of Antioch. The chapter concludes with a case study of Richard of the Principate and Roger of Salerno, which highlights the problems of identifying individuals and their actions within the extant contemporary material.
