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Roger II was a son of Roger I, Great Count of Sicily, and Adelaide of Savona. Count Roger was a younger brother of Robert "Guiscard" ("the crafty") de Hauteville, overlord of Sicily and much of the Italian peninsula south of Rome, with Salerno as its largest city. Born 22 December 1095, young Roger was educated by erudite Greek and Arab tutors ...
Moving forward to what Roger II was able to do economically for the kingdom, when he rose to power in the early twelfth century, he decided his first order of business was to create a new currency and appointed commissioners to enforce the use of the monetary system. 18 Roger II also used Sicily’s location in the Mediterranean to his advantage.
May 22, 2023 · Roger II’s royal mantle encapsulates his rulership perfectly and through a careful selection of materials, fuses together two monumental eras in Sicily’s history. Intended to be a historical heirloom, the mantle was created in 1133 for his sons to inherit, and later formed a crucial element to the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor.
Jan 12, 2008 · Roger II of Sicily (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) Illustrated Edition. This is a scholarly and up-to-date narrative of the epic reign of the "Norman" King Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily during the first half of the twelfth century. It is a thoughtful analysis of the kingdom's mixed east-west culture and the development of its ...
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Dec 29, 2021 · Print. One of the most successful, but little known kings who reigned during the Middle Ages was Roger II (1095-1154) who controlled the island of Sicily along with Apulia and Calabria in Southern Italy. Historically Sicily had been occupied by Greek settlers and then Byzantine, followed by Muslim dominance from 827 to 1061.
Feb 27, 2020 · Roger II (c. 1095-1154), Sicily's first king, was an anomaly for his time. An ambitious new ruler who lacked the distinguished lineage so prized by the nobility, and a leader of an extraordinarily diverse population on the fringes of Europe, he occupied a unique space in the continent's charged political landscape.
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the 800th anniversary of the death of King William II of Sicily, the grand-son of Roger II. The papers delivered at this conference showed what progress had been made in research on the foundation of the Norman state in Sicily since the publication of the pioneering works of Erich Caspar (1904) and Ferdinand Chalandon (1907). When it was suggested
