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He was the leader of the troops committed by Guaimar IV Of Salerno to Giorgio Maniace 's Sicilian expedition in 1038 . According to Amatus Of Montecassino , he refused to surrender a captured horse to the Byzantine general and Maniace consequently had him stripped and beaten. Whatever happened, Arduin and his Salernitan contingent along with the Normans (also sent by Guaimar) and the Varangian s (sent by Emperor Constantine IX ) abandoned Sicily and returned to the mainland. On the peninsula, the Byzantine Catepan Of Italy , Michael Doukeianos , appointed him '' Topoterites '' of Melfi . He soon revolted against Greek authority in Apulia and he and his Normans joined the rebellion-in-progress of Argyrus . First, the nominal leader of the insurrection, Atenulf, Prince Of Benevento , defected to the Greeks and then Argyrus, his successor. The Normans, bypassing Arduin (who may also have been bought off by the Greeks), chose their own successor to Argyrus, William Iron Arm , and Arduin faded completely out of view. |
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