Serlon II of Hauteville
Serlon II of Hauteville is the son of Serlon de Hauteville and the grandson of Tancrède de Hauteville. Born in Cotentin towards the end from the Years 1030, it probably follows his/her uncle Roger Bosso in southernmost Italy towards 1057 and one finds it in the Années 1060 in Sicily at the sides of this last, combatant the Arabo - Moslem and the pirate Sarrasins.
It takes part in particular in the famous battle of Cérami (1063) where, according to the legend, 136 Normands dare to clash with 50.000 Moslems, and are victorious! And where Saint Georges in person intervened, all in white, armed with a lance and overlapping at the sides or the fronts with the Norman Cavalier S! He dies in a ambush in Sicily in 1072, close to Nicosie, betrays by a lord buckwheat, named Ibrahim, with whom he had bound of friendship. Taken refuge in top of a rock with its small troop, he prefers to fight valiantly until death. Its corpse will be decapitated, its head sent to a emir.
On the place of the massacre large a Croix in its memory will be high, and today still this place names " Pietra di Serlone/Serlo/Sarlo" , or " Pietra di Sarno".
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