The Saracens initially concentrated their attacks on Sicily and Byzantine Italy, but soon Radelchis I of Benevento called in more mercenaries who destroyed Capua in 841.

The Saracens called him Melek-Ric or Malek al-Inkitar – King of England.

In the 9th century, Arab pirates ( called Saracens by the French ) and then the Normans invaded Provence.

Troisi started his artistic career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called " I Saraceni " (" The Saracens ") and, later, " La Smorfia " ( from the name of the " book of the numbers " traditionally used in Naples for lottery and tombola, but also meaning " the face ", as in " to make a face ").

The crisis was aggravated by the beginning of Saracen ravages, the first Saracens having been called in by Radelchis and subsequently Siconulf in their decade-long war.

William's career battling Saracens is sung in epic poems in the 12th and 13th century cycle called La Geste de Garin de Monglane, some two dozen chansons de geste that actually center around William, the great-grandson of the largely legendary Garin.

Writing on Islam's claim of Abrahamic ancestry, John explained that the Arabs were called " Saracens " ( Greek Σαρακενοί, Sarakenoi ) because they were " empty " ( κενός, kenos, in Greek ) " of Sarah ".

The purpose the journey was to attend a diet after being summoned by the Frankish King Charles III, the Fat, to settle the succession to the Holy Roman Empire and discuss the rising power of the Saracens.

However, the Frankish aristocracy is more concerned with the attacks by the Northmen in their country than the war with the Saracens in southern Italy.

He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son, Louis, and remained in his new kingdom, engaging in alternate quarrels and reconciliations with his brothers and in futile efforts to defend his lands from the attacks of the Northmen ( as Vikings were known in Frankish writings ) and the Saracens.

Pope Leo IV used his estate workers, inhabitants from the surrounding countryside and Saracens captured after the sea battle of Ostia in 849, with funding from an imperial Frankish donation, to construct the wall, which ran in an enclosing U-shape from the riverbank at Hadrian's Mausoleum, soon to be Christened the Castel Sant ' Angelo, up the slopes of the Vatican hill encircling the basilica and descending again to the river.

The " Chinon Parchment suggests that the Templars did indeed spit on the cross ," says Sean Martin, and that these acts were intended to simulate the kind of humiliation and torture that a Crusader might be subjected to if captured by the Saracens, where they were taught how to commit apostasy " with the mind only and not with the heart ".

" It is less wicked to brandish your sword against Saracens ," Baldrick's Urban cries, comparing them to the Amalekites.

Arabic nakers, the direct ancestors of most timpani, were brought to 13th century Continental Europe by Crusaders and Saracens.

Saracens amalgamated with neighbouring club Crusaders two years later.

* Saracen's Head and Turk's Head: Saracens and Turks were among the enemies faced by Crusaders.

He has played for Canterbury and the Tasman Makos in the National Provincial Championship and its successor, the Air New Zealand Cup ; the Crusaders in Super Rugby ; Saracens in the Guinness Premiership ; and internationally for the All Blacks.

The Saracens allowed the port to be used as a safe haven for pirates who operated against Imperial shipping and raided Imperial territory around the Aegean.

Saracens used to play at Chase Side ( also known as Clocktower Park ).

It is also used as Saracens Amateurs ' training ground.

Saracens used to play at Bramley Road on Chase Side ( also known as Clocktower Park ).

These warriors had been used to counter the threat posed by the Saracens, who, from their bases in Sicily, raided South Italy without much resistance from the Lombard and Byzantine rulers of the affected lands.

However, although Outremer ( Jerusalem's name under the crusaders ) was lost to the Saracens, the claim to the title of King of Jerusalem continued to be passed down through several generations, until almost every monarch in Europe used the title.

Peter used the newly translated material in his own writings on Islam, of which the most important are the Summa totius heresis Saracenorum ( The Summary of the Entire Heresy of the Saracens ) and the Liber contra sectam sive heresim Saracenorum ( The Refutation of the Sect or Heresy of the Saracens ).

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

Records of its use in later naval battles against the Saracens are more sporadic, but it did secure a number of victories, especially in the phase of Byzantine expansion in the late 9th and early 10th centuries.

In 982 Emperor Otto II suffered a disastrous defeat against the Saracens in Italy.

Otto II's campaign against the Saracens ended in 982 following a disastrous defeat.

Sometime after 841 Gregory rebuilt and fortified parts of the port of Ostia against the attacks of Saracens, renaming it Gregoriopolis.

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

In August a council or synod of some importance was held at Benevento, which renewed the excommunication of the antipope Clement III and the condemnation of lay investiture, proclaimed a kind of crusade against the Saracens in northern Africa and anathematised Hugh of Lyons and Richard, Abbot of Marseilles.

* Emperor Nikephoros I of Byzantium suffers a major defeat against the Saracens at the Battle of Krasos.

* Western Emperor Louis II allies with eastern Emperor Basil I against the Saracens.

* Pope John VIII requests the help of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia, against attacks by the Saracens in Italy.

It fell into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under Charles Martel for having sided with the Arabs against him.

On 19 December 1442, Eugene replied by issuing the bull Illius qui, in which he granted full remission of sins to those who took part in any expeditions against the Saracens.

On 26 July 2012, English club Saracens announced that they will take their October 20 Heineken Cup pool match against Racing Métro 92 to Brussels.

Ademarus died in Corsica while fighting against the Saracens.

He then engaged in further fighting against the Saracens of Aleppo but neither side managed a decisive victory.

Hugh was an emissary of Prince Raymond of Antioch seeking Western aid against the Saracens after the Siege of Edessa, and his counsel incited Eugene to call for the Second Crusade.

In 1221 Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre, returned from the disastrous Fifth Crusade with good news: King David of India, the son or grandson of Prester John, had mobilized his armies against the Saracens.

William of Tyre claims that Raymond seduced Eleanor to get revenge on her husband, who refused to aid him in his wars against the Saracens, and that " contrary to royal dignity, she disregarded her marriage vows and was unfaithful to her husband.

It fought against the neighbour / rival Amalfi and the Saracens, and in 1133 it was conquered by the Norman Roger II of Hauteville, and thenceforth Sorrento's history followed that of the newly created Kingdom of Naples ( known to contemporaries as Kingdom of Sicily ; it is dubbed Kingdom of Naples to distinguish it from the island-based polity ).

In his efforts to restore order in Italy, Louis met with considerable success both against Italy's turbulent princes and against the Saracens who were ravaging southern Italy.