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pearls and jewels, however precious, might be easily removed; but one hundred and sixty horses were laden with the gold and silver of Sicily. The young king, his mother and sisters, and the nobles of both sexes, were separately confined in the fortresses of the Alps; and, on the slightest rumor of rebellion, the captives were deprived of life, of their eyes, or of the hope of posterity. Constantia herself was touched with sympathy for the miseries of her country; and the heiress of the Norman line might struggle to check her despotic husband, and to save the patrimony of her new-born son, of an emperor so famous in the next age under the name of Frederic the Second. Ten years after this revolution, the French monarchs annexed to their crown the duchy of Normandy: the sceptre of her ancient dukes had been transmitted, by a granddaughter of William the Conqueror, to the house of Plantagenet; and the adventurous Normans, who had raised so many trophies in France, England, and Ireland, in Apulia, Sicily, and the East, were lost, either in victory or servitude, among the vanquished nations.
Chapter LVII:
The Turks.
Part I. The Turks Of The House Of Seljuk. -- Their Revolt Against Mahmud Conqueror Of Hindostan. -- Togrul Subdues Persia, And Protects The Caliphs. -- Defeat And Captivity Of The Emperor Romanus Diogenes By Alp Arslan. -- Power And Magnificence Of Malek Shah. -- Conquest Of Asia Minor And Syria. -- State And Oppression Of Jerusalem. -- Pilgrimages To The Holy Sepulchre. From the Isle of Sicily, the reader must transport