Norman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth

Norman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth


Episode 8 - William Iron-Arm

May 28, 2010

In Duke Richard II's Normandy an impoverished knight named Tancred de Hauteville struggled to provide for his twelve sons. The eldest of them - William - declined his inheritance and headed to southern Italy to seek his trade as a mercenary. He was the fi