To the south of Rome, the Normans showed how frightening they were to both Arabs (in Sicily) and Byzantine (on land). What do you say want to go around again poster. A Latino hegemony (in the West) in the Middle Ages will provide leverage in resolving the Pope’s dispute over the supremacy of Patriarch Constantinople, which has led to the Great breakaway in 1054, a rift could not be solved by the power of the Franks. In the Byzantine Empire, the weakness of the Eastern Emperor was revealed by the disastrous defeat of the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the Asian territory of the empire in western Anatolia and the surrounding area of Constantinople fell. . A sure sign of Byzantine’s desperation was the call of Alexios I to his pope-enemy to ask for aid. But Pope Gregory is now busy with the issue of Investiture Controversy and cannot call on the German emperor (the main force of the Crusader), so a jihad has never been formation (in the time of Pope Gregory).
