1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Avengers

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3
Avengers
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​AVENGERS, or Vendicatori, a secret society formed about 1186 in Sicily to avenge popular wrongs. The society was finally suppressed by King William II., the Norman, who hanged the grand master and branded the members with hot irons.

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