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Roger of Lauria (c. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian admiral in Aragonese service, who was the commander of the fleet of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tactician of the Middle Ages.
Jun 11, 2020 · by Craig Nakashian Posted on June 11, 2020. Charles D. Stanton. Roger of Lauria (c.1250-1305) “Admiral of Admirals” (The Boydell Press, 2019) 346 pp. $115.00.
Jun 10, 2021 · It was the greatest conflagration in Europe during the last quarter of the thirteenth century, setting a pattern for conflict between the rival houses of Anjou and Aragon that persisted for the rest of the Middle Ages. The leading figure in the struggle was Roger of Lauria, the ‘admiral of admirals’ who served the Aragonese Crown.
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Sep 10, 2019 · Roger of Lauria – Admiral of Admirals. September 10, 2019 by KristysStanton. Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman.
Mar 21, 2024 · Ruggiero di Lauria (born c. 1250, Lauria, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [Italy]—died 1304/05, Valencia, Spain) was an Italian admiral in the service of Aragon and Sicily who won important naval victories over the French Angevins (house of Anjou) in the war between France and Aragon over the possession of Sicily in the 1280s.
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By Susan Rose, published January 2021. Abstract. Roger of Lauria, the commander of the galley fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon in the last years of the thirteenth century, was portrayed as a great hero by many contemporary chroniclers of his exploits.
Roger of Lauria is immortalized in both Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. To place him in proper perspective, his career should be compared to that of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson who won three pitched battles at sea as a fleet commander: the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and, of ...
