At this time in the court of Apuliacane in southern Italy, like King Edmund of Sweden, the freshly baked King Caesar of Sicily. Morality. Ottwell was tormented between joining William's side or the Pope's side.

At first, Caesar fell out with William over Norman adventurers and immigrants, and then completely fell out with William because of his own ambitions, and finally fell to Pope Leo IX's side for the Sicilian crown.

Eventually, his ambition was rewarded when Pope Leo IX himself was crowned King of Sicily in Rome in the autumn of 1050, allowing him to rightfully rule Naples and Sicily in Italy.

You must know that at this time, there are only a handful of countries that actually have crowns, only England, Scotland, France, Castile, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Poland have a few thirteen crowns, and there are no other kingdoms.

Even Yaroslav, the once vast and powerful wise man, was never crowned Slavic king by the Pope, he was still only the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, and in the European countries, he was just a barbarian chieftain.

Other Norman titles, such as William's titles, were not recognized by the European powers and the Pope, and his official titles were to be given to the King of England and the Duke of Normandy.

In the eyes of others, William was nothing more than an illegitimate son and a bandit leader, and even if he did such a great thing, he was not recognized by others at all.

It is this contempt and discrimination against illegitimate children that is the root cause of the continuous outbreak of wars, and no one is willing to endure the contempt and ridicule of others.

However, after falling out with William for so long, Caesar started to reconcile with William.

Ever since he had received the precious Sicilian Crown from Pope Leo IX, he had nothing more to ask for from the Pope, except, of course, the city of Rome.

But Pope Leo IX, after crowning Caesar, saw Sicily as his motive and instructed him to do this and that.

Normans are naturally freedom-minded, but also the most profit-oriented, they can abandon the Nordic polytheistic beliefs in order to settle in Normandy, Caesar can fall out with William for the Sicilian crown, and of course they can choose to make peace with William for more interests.

Of course, the more important reason for Caesar's desire to make peace with William was that he wanted more Norman adventurers from William, and he needed more Normans to join his command in order to consolidate the Norman rule in the Kingdom of Sicily.

The rule of the Normans in the Kingdom of Sicily can be said to be a model of outnumbering, with Caesar based on a small number of Normans and dozens of times the number of Italians.

Although his rule was still relatively stable at this time, it was only by relying on the strong fighting power and prestige of the Normans that he was able to suppress the Italians.

However, such an outnumbered model of rule was always unhealthy, and it was impossible to completely control the entire Kingdom of Sicily with thousands of Norman adventurers, as illustrated by the rising rebellions in the Kingdom of Sicily.

It is believed that when the Normans lose their name, or when their combat effectiveness declines, and they become corrupt and degenerate, his and the Normans' rule will be greatly challenged.

It was with this concern that Caesar tried to reconcile with William, trying to get more Norman nobles and adventurers from William in order to expand his ruling base.

Caesar's father, Tancrede, was a nobleman in Mortan, and his three brothers took him on an adventure to Sicily, where he endured numerous hardships to achieve such a brilliant achievement.

During this period, he was joined by three groups of Normans, some of whom were brought from Mortin by the House of Ottville, and the other were Norman nobles who had been purged in the rebellion more than a decade earlier, and most of them were old-fashioned Norman nobles from Mortan and Cotentin, who were exiled to Apulia by William.

The last part, of course, were the Norman adventurers who were unsatisfactory under William and tried to venture to Sicily.

Since the first two Normans were completely cut off, the last group of Normans who volunteered to venture into Sicily became his most important source of troops.

Eventually, however, these Normans were gradually dwindled under William's ban, to the point of exhaustion, and he desperately needed the arrival of Norman adventurers to replenish the Normans he had lost in the wars.

However, as the saying goes, "catching up is not a deal", if Caesar wanted to get the psychological performance of the Norman adventurer too urgently, it would make him pay more, and William would not agree to his request because he was too eager.

In order to better achieve the goal, Caesar had to make a good deal between the Pope and William in order to obtain better conditions and benefits.

That said, the conditions proposed by Pope Leo IX were also quite attractive, and the inclusion of the Archdiocese of Benevento under his rule was also a very good package for him.

Compared to Pope Leo IX's offer, William's quid pro quo was somewhat unattractive.

It was just a few thousand pounds of silver and gold and favorable terms of trade, which was too different from Pope Leo IX's bid.

In order to let William and the Pope show the bottom line and raise the offer, Caesar pretended to be a wavering posture and expressed a closer attitude to the Pope from time to time.

In charge of Sicily is Walter. Sir Giffard, a cunning old scoundrel, was a well-known diplomat in the Foreign Office and trusted by William.

This time, he was tasked with the mission entrusted to him by William, and was responsible for winning over Caesar and Sicily to join William's camp.

However, what he didn't expect was that Caesar, the king of Sicily, was so difficult, as if he was deliberately teasing him, constantly flattering the pope, but he did not cut off contact with him, and expressed some closeness from time to time.

Caesar's journey, Sir Walter also knew very well, was nothing more than an offer to get more benefits, and what he wanted - to lift the ban on Norman adventurers from venturing to Italy, which his Majesty could not agree.

Sir Walter thought about it and decided to take two preparities, first he wrote a letter to William about the situation and Caesar's intentions, and then he began to implement his original plan.

At noon on the second day, it was the busiest time for the taverns of the Kingdom of Sicily, and the Normans were frequent visitors to these places, as the wealthiest group in the Kingdom of Sicily, they had the highest spending power and were the most popular objects of the tavern owners.

In the tavern, there were several stealthy Normans who frequented the tavern and other places, talking to other Normans from time to time, spreading rumors that their king Caesar would prepare to take them to battle with William's Normans.

At the same time, some people stood up with righteous words, saying that the Normans did not fight the Normans and could not kill each other for the sake of the Pope.

Soon, these words spread throughout the Kingdom of Sicily, and even many Norman nobles believed them and went to the Sicilian court to persuade Caesar to change his mind.