. The Normans in Europe . , under the Lords of theIsles, owned allegiance to iVorway, but was virtually independent. Of these Anglesea and Ireland fell to England in the reign of Henry IL,Man long enjoyed semi-independence under its ownlords, while the Hebrides were ceded to Scotland inthe latter half of the thirteenth century. In Italy the Norman kingdom of Apulia and Sicilystill belonged to the descendants of Robert Guiscard,and maintained constant intercourse with this line of kings it continued until the end of thetwelfth century, when their dominion passed away, withthe hand

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. The Normans in Europe . , under the Lords of theIsles, owned allegiance to iVorway, but was virtually independent. Of these Anglesea and Ireland fell to England in the reign of Henry IL,Man long enjoyed semi-independence under its ownlords, while the Hebrides were ceded to Scotland inthe latter half of the thirteenth century. In Italy the Norman kingdom of Apulia and Sicilystill belonged to the descendants of Robert Guiscard,and maintained constant intercourse with this line of kings it continued until the end of thetwelfth century, when their dominion passed away, withthe hand of Constance the Norman heiress, to theEmperor Henry VI. In Palestine the Norman nobles still held some fiefs;and the Frankish name was to continue there, but withfast declining power, until the end of the thirteenth cen-tury (1291). In Russia the descendants of Ruric still saton the throne of Kiev, until they should be subdued bythe Tartar invasion of the same century (1240). Thus the end of the Norman period in England. 1

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