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Apr 18, 2024 · father Roger I. daughter Constance. Roger II (born December 22, 1095—died February 26, 1154, Palermo [Sicily]) was the grand count of Sicily (1105–30) and king of the Norman kingdom of Sicily (1130–54). He also incorporated the mainland territories of Calabria in 1122 and Apulia in 1127.
On 30 October 1137, at the Battle of Rignano (next to Monte Gargano ), the younger Roger and his father, with Sergius of Naples, met the defensive army of Duke Ranulf. It was the greatest defeat of Roger II's career. Sergius died and Roger fled to Salerno. It capped Ranulf's meteoric career: twice victor over Roger.
- 1105 – 27 September 1130
- Roman Catholicism
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May 18, 2018 · Roger II (1095-1154), king of Sicily from 1130 to 1154, was the most able ruler in 12th-century Europe. He organized a multiracial, multinational kingdom in which Arabic, Byzantine, Lombard, Jewish, and Norman cultures produced a brilliant cosmopolitan state.
Mar 23, 2014 · by Anthony Di Renzo | Mar 23, 2014. Roger II, Sicily’s greatest king, died 860 years ago on February 26. The nephew of Robert Guiscard and son of Count Roger I, Roger II came to the throne at the age of nine and wrested control from his regent when he was sixteen. Crushing all opposition, Roger ruled Sicily until his death at the age of fifty ...
- Anthony Di Renzo
Roger was born around 1095, which would have put Alfonso at about 58 years of age at the time. By then, the Spanish king had already distinguished himself in a number of ways that would have made ties to his dynasty attractive to an emerging power situated on the fringes of the Muslim world.
- Dawn Marie Hayes
Feb 25, 2014 · Roger II died at the age of 58 in 1154, leaving behind a prosperous, stable kingdom, but his greatest legacy was the amalgamation of the best of the various cultures of his realm, an invaluable contribution to Western civilization which would see its full flowering in the better known Renaissance which was yet to come.
Dec 27, 2021 · The history of this mantle goes beyond the Sicily of Roger II. When Roger II’s grandson, Frederick II (1194 – 1250), regained the throne of Sicily and became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1215 to 1250, he took the firm decision to be crowned with the majestic mantle of caliphal inspiration of his grandfather.
