Island south of Italy. In the Cid’s time it was ruled by Muslim and Greek Christian rulers nominally vassals of the Sultan of Tunis, but was progressively reconquered in 1061 to 1090 by the Norman prince Roger I (1031 - 1101).
Then he told him that the land beyond sea was in such state that they weened it would be lost, and that the Christians would win it, so great a Crusade had gone forth against it from Germany, and from France, and from Lombardy, and Sicily, and Calabria, and Ireland, and England, which had won the city of Antioch, and now lay before Jerusalem.