| โ | Normans, remember why we came to Italy. We will be ruthless, we will conquer, we will take and kill, and make a name for ourselves in this land like our father's fathers did in Normandy! Join me and I will lead us to greatness! | โ |
| —Congratulating his men in Guiscard Arrives | ||
Robert Guiscard (c. 1015 โ 17 July 1085) is an cavalry hero unit in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Lords of the West. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health. Robert is one of the four protagonists of the The Hautevilles campaign.
Campaign appearances[]
The Hautevilles[]
- Guiscard Arrives: Robert leads his Norman band into southern Italy, in order to establish his own realm.
- Bohemond and the Emperor: Robert advises his son, Bohemond, on how to campaign into the Byzantine Empire. After leaving, he leaves his wife Sikelgaita to help Bohemond.
Victors and Vanquished[]
- Komnenos: Robert is situated in front of a Norman Castle in suothern Italy, directing raids into the Byzantine Empire. It's necessary to defeat the Normans, in order to secure the Byzantine Empire.
- Mstislav: Bogatyr Alyosha Popovich is a renamed Robert Guiscard. He will join Mstislav upon being discovered, on the western path towards Halych.
- Stephen: Norman Knights under Stephen are renamed Robert Guiscard. They can be trained in the same fashion as normal Knights.
History[]
Robert (c.โ1015 โ 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, who went on to become count and then duke of Apulia and Calabria (1057โ1059), duke of Sicily (1059โ1085), and briefly prince of Benevento (1078โ1081) before returning the title to the papacy.
His sobriquet "Guiscard", in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered "the Resourceful", "the Cunning", "the Wily", "the Fox", or "the Weasel". In Italian sources he is often Roberto II Guiscardo or Roberto d'Altavilla (from Robert de Hauteville), while medieval Arabic sources call him simply Abฤrt al-dลซqa (Duke Robert)
He was the elder brother of Roger Bosso, and was the father to his bastard son Bohemond.
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