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THE ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE - outriders poetry project

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© 2009 Max Wickert<br />

In those days Gerard of the Thickets son Guiscard, with his brother Miles, set out after their father<br />

Gerard’s death and seized the lordship of Apulia. Guiscard assumed the rule of Apulia from Reggio<br />

to Gaeta, and Miles that of Otranto to Manfredonia. He called himself Prince of Taranto, and was<br />

not content with this, wherever he was for a long time imprisoned at Durazzo, as is told in the book<br />

Meschin of Durazzo 77 , which concerns his son. Here end all the stories regarding Aspramont and<br />

Gerard of the Thicket.<br />

77 Meschin of Durazzo: This is a puff for Andrea’s long romance, Guerrin Meschin, which enjoyed a popularity<br />

rivaling that of the Reali.

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