The
Italo-Normans, or
Siculo-Normans when referring to
Sicily and
Southern Italy, were the
Italian-born descendants of the first
Norman conquerors to travel to
southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. While maintaining much of their distinctly
Norman piety and customs of war, they were shaped by the diversity of southern Italy, by the cultures and customs of the
Greeks,
Lombards, and
Arabs in Sicily.