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Roger of Lauria (c. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian knight who served the Crown of Aragon as admiral of the Aragonese navy during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tactician of the Middle Ages. He is known as Ruggero or Ruggiero di Lauria in Italian and Roger de Llúria in Catalan.
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.
- Guy Perry, Guy Perry
- 2021
Ask the Chatbot a Question Ask the Chatbot a Question 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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Roger of Lauria—the greatest naval commander of his age—racked up an unbroken string of victories in the late 13th century. Alamy. And if Roger of Lauria is less of a household name than those other titans, it is because the war in which he blazed such a victorious course is shrouded in the mists of the byzantine medieval Mediterranean power-politics of a long-gone century.
Sep 10, 2019 · Roger of Lauria – Admiral of Admirals. 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. It sparked a bloody conflagration that would ultimately involve every part of the Mediterranean.
The title ‘Admiral of Admirals’ was an actual honorific first applied in 1133 by King Roger II of Sicily in its Latin form ( amiratus amiratorum) to his gifted adviser, George of Antioch.¹ Amiratus was derived from the Arabic word amir (‘emir’), literally meaning ‘commander’. In other words, King Roger used the title to designate ...
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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 ...
