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=== Death === On 17 July 1085, Guiscard died of a fever in Cephalonia, at Atheras, north of [[Lixouri]]. His remains were brought back to Italy, and he was buried in the [[Hauteville family|Hauteville]] family mausoleum, the [[Abbey of Santissima Trinità, Venosa|Abbey of Santissima Trinità]] in [[Venosa]]. The town of [[Fiskardo]] in Cephalonia is named after him. On his epigraph there are four Latin verses; the last one reads "''Hic terror mundi Guiscardus''", which translates to "''Here (lies) Guiscard, terror of the world''".<ref>James van Wyck Osborne, ''The Greatest Norman Conquest'' (1937), p. 396.</ref><ref>Loud, p. 223.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jeanne |first=G.-R. |date=1986 |title=L'évocation romantique d'un héros normand |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/etnor_0014-2158_1986_num_35_4_2694 |journal=Études Normandes |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=19–30 |doi=10.3406/etnor.1986.2694}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Aubé |first=Pierre |title=Roger II de Sicile: un Normand en Méditerranée |date=2016 |publisher=Perrin |isbn=978-2-262-06396-2 |series=Collection Tempus |location=Paris}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stroock |first=William |date=2011 |title=How to fight and win like a Norman: Strategy and tactics of the Norman |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48577881 |journal=Medieval Warfare |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=13–15 |jstor=48577881 |issn=2211-5129}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Taviani-Carozzi |first=Huguette |title=La terreur du monde: Robert Guiscard et la conquête normande en Italie; mythe et histoire |date=1996 |publisher=Fayard |isbn=978-2-213-59598-6 |location=Paris}}</ref>[[File:Tomba degli Altavilla.jpg|right|thumb|[[Hauteville family]] mausoleum, where Robert Guiscard was buried. [[Abbey of the Santissima Trinità (Venosa)|Trinity Abbey]] in [[Venosa]], Italy.]]
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