22 INTRODUCTION. 
Besides visiting his Norman friends, a princi 
object in Robert’s return to Italy was to consult. th 
physicians of Salerno for a wound which he | 
received in his right arm from an arrow su 
have been poisoned, and which had degenerated i 
collection, vol. i. p. 578. sect. 32. Albertus Aquensis, lib: 
eap. liii. liv. Ordericus Vitalis, in Duchesne’s Gesta 2 
man migsiaig P- 780. In anno 1100, consules (comites Rober 
suis reciperunt se, et A Normannis in Italia amici 
litér suscepti sunt. Rogerius Sicilie comes, ejusque 0! 
ius, Apulia dux, atque Goiffredus de Conversano, 2 
Guiscardi ducis, aliique compatriote seu cognati eorum, § 
nia dux, generosam virginem adamavit Sibyllam, 
: Conversand filiam, desponsavit, et secum in Neustriam addt 
Fuit predicta comitissa puler’ facie, honestis moribus, 8% 
predita, et aliquando, absente duce, ipsa melius per se 0 
provincia, tam privata quam publica, disponebat quan i 
facerat si adesset. Vixit autem in Normannia parvo temp 
invidia et factione quarundam nobilium feeminarum decepta- _ 
