By the 11th century mainland southern Italian powers were hiring Norman mercenaries, who were Christian descendants of the Vikings. It was the Normans, under Roger de Hauteville, who became Roger I of Sicily, that captured Sicily from the Muslims. He was in total control of the entire island by 1091.
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