William I of Sicily
1126 –May 7, 1166
Sovereign
Lived 40 years
- Born in
- Palermo
- Passed away in
- Palermo
William I (1120 or 1121 – 7 May 1166), called the Bad or the Wicked (Sicilian: Gugghiermu lu Malu), was the second king of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own in 1166. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira of Castile.
William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Hugo Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided. Recent scholarship has also stressed that William inherited a mainland political order still dependent on the cooperation of counts and major barons in Apulia and the Terra di Lavoro, making his reign especially vulnerable to aristocratic coalitions and provincial revolt.
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_Sicily