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Roger I of Sicily at the battle of Cerami—victorious against 35,000 Saracens—in 1061.
Roger I of Sicily at the battle of Cerami—victorious against 35,000 Saracens—in 1061.

Roger I (1031 – June 22, 1101), called Bosso and the Great Count, was the Norman Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. The following is a list of monarchs of Sicily. Counts of Sicily Sicily was granted pending its Christian reconquest to Robert Guiscard as "duke" He was the last great leader of the Norman conquest of southern Italy. The Norman conquest of Southern Italy spanned most of the eleventh century involving many battles and many independent players conquering territories of their own

Roger was the youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fredisenda. Tancred of Hauteville was an eleventh-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known He arrived in Southern Italy soon after 1055. Geography Southern Italy forms the lower "boot" of the Italian peninsula containing the ankle (Abruzzo and Molise and southern Lazio the toe (Calabria and the heel

Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to "Joseph and Benjamin of old," says of Roger: "He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel. Goffredo (or Geoffrey) Malaterra was an eleventh century Benedictine monk and Chronicler of Norman origin Robert Guiscard (from Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, often rendered the Resourceful, the Cunning, the Wily Joseph or Yosef (יוֹסֵ Standard Yosef Tiberian Yôsēp̄, يوسف Yusuf; "He Benjamin ( in the Book of Genesis, is a son of Jacob, the second (and last son of Rachel, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin He was far-seeing in arranging all his actions, pleasant and merry all with men; strong and brave, and furious in battle. " Roger shared the conquest of Calabria with Robert, and in a treaty of 1062 the brothers in dividing the conquest apparently made a kind of "condominium" by which either was to have half of every castle and town in Calabria. Calabria ( Latin: Brutium) is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of

Robert now resolved to employ Roger's genius in reducing Sicily, which contained, besides the Muslims, numerous Greek Christians subject to Arab princes who had become all but independent of the sultan of Tunis. Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion Tunis ( Arabic: تونس Tūnis) is the Capital of the Tunisian Republic and also the Tunis In May 1061 the brothers crossed from Reggio and captured Messina. After Palermo had been taken in January 1072, Robert Guiscard, as suzerain, invested Roger as Count of Sicily, but he retained Palermo, half of Messina, and the north-east portion (the Val Demone). Palermo ( Sicilian: Palermu, Greek: Panormus, al-Madinah during Muslim rule is a historic City in Not till 1085, however, was Roger able to undertake a systematic crusade.

In March 1086 Syracuse surrendered, and when in February 1091 Noto yielded, the conquest was complete. Syracuse (Siracusa Sicilian: Sarausa, Classical Greek: / transliterated Syrakousai) is a historic City in Noto (Latin Neetum and Netum; Notu in Sicilian, Nuotu in the local dialect is a city Much of Robert's success had been due to Roger's support. Similarly, when the leadership of the Hautevilles passed to Roger, he supported his nephew Duke Roger against Bohemund, Capua, and other rebels. Roger Borsa (1060/1061&ndash February 22, 1111) was the son and successor of Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror of Southern Italy Bohemond I (also spelled Bohemund or Boamund; c 1058&ndash 3 March 1111) Prince of Taranto and Prince of Antioch In return for his aid against Bohemund and the rebels, the duke surrendered his share in the castles of Calabria to his uncle in 1085, and in 1091 his inheritance in Palermo. Roger's rule in Sicily was more absolute than Robert Guiscard's in Italy. At the enfeoffments of 1072 and 1092 no great undivided fiefs were created, so the mixed Norman, French and Italian vassals all owed their benefices to the count. No feudal revolt of importance therefore troubled Roger.

Politically supreme, the count also became master of the insular church. The Papacy, favouring a prince who had recovered Sicily from Greeks and Muslims, in 1098 granted Roger and his heirs the Apostolic Legateship of the island. Nuncio is an ecclesiastical Diplomatic title, derived from the ancient Latin word Nuntius, meaning "envoy Roger created new Latin bishoprics at Syracuse, Girgenti, and elsewhere, nominating the bishops personally, while he turned the archbishopric of Palermo into a Catholic see. Syracuse (Siracusa Sicilian: Sarausa, Classical Greek: / transliterated Syrakousai) is a historic City in Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Roger practised general toleration towards Arabs and Greeks, allowing to each race the expansion of its own civilization. In the cities, the Muslims, who had generally secured such rights in their terms of surrender, retained their mosques, their kadis, and freedom of trade; in the country, however, they became serfs. Roger drew the mass of his infantry from the Muslims. Saint Anselm, visiting him at the siege of Capua, 1098, found "the brown tents of the Arabs innumerable". Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 &ndash April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval Philosopher, theologian, and church official The Siege of Capua was a military operation involving the states of medieval Southern Italy, beginning in May 1098 and lasting forty days Nevertheless, the Latin element began to prevail, as Lombards and other Italians flocked to the island in the wake of the conquest, and the conquest of Sicily proved decisive in the steady decline of Muslim power in the western Mediterranean from this time.

Roger, the "Great Count of Sicily," died on June 22, 1101, in his seventieth year and was buried in S. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Trinità of Mileto. Mileto (Miletos is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about 60 km southwest

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Family

Roger's eldest son was a bastard named Jordan, who predeceased him. In Common law, legitimacy is the status of a Child that is born to parents who are legally married to one another or that is born shortly after the Jordan of Hauteville (born after 1056 - died 12/18/ 19 September 1092) was the eldest son and bastard of Roger I of Sicily. His second son, Geoffrey, may have been a bastard, but may also have been a son of his first or second wife. Geoffrey or Godfrey was the second eldest son of Roger I of Sicily. Whatever the case, he was a leper with no chance of inheriting.

Roger's first marriage took place in 1061, to Judith, daughter of William, Count of Évreux and Hawisa of Échauffour. She died in 1076, leaving all daughters:

  1. A daughter, married Hugh of Gircea (or Gercé)
  2. Matilda, married Raymond IV of Toulouse
  3. Adelisa, married Henry, Count of Monte Sant'Angelo
  4. Emma (d. Raymond IV of Toulouse sometimes called Raymond of St Gilles (c Henry (died probably 21 December 1102) was the Count of Monte Sant'Angelo, with his seat at Foggia, from November 1081 1120), briefly engaged to Philip I of France; married firstly the count of Clermont and secondly Rudolf, Count of Montescaglioso

In 1077, Roger married a second time, to Eremburga of Mortain, daughter of "William, Count of Mortain" (probably William Warlenc). Philip I ( 23 May 1052 &ndash 29 July 1108) called the Amorous or the Fat, was King of France from 1060 Counts of Clermont-en-Beauvasis first appear in the early 11th century Rudolf (also Rudolph, Ralph, or Raoul) (died 1108 called Maccabeus, Maccabeo, or Maccabees, was the second count of The County of Mortain was a medieval county in France centered on the town of Mortain. Their children were:

  1. Mauger, Count of Troina
  2. Matilda, married Guigues III, Count of Albon
  3. Muriel, married Josbert de Lucy
  4. Constancia, married Conrad of Italy
  5. Felicia, married King Coloman of Hungary
  6. Violante, married Robert of Burgundy, son of Robert I of Burgundy
  7. Flandina, married Henry del Vasto
  8. Judith, married Robert I of Bassunvilla

Roger's third and last wife was Adelaide del Vasto, niece of Boniface, Lord of Savona. Mauger was the third eldest and probably eldest legitimate son of Roger I of Sicily. Constanze of Sicily (died 1138 was the Queen consort of Conrad II of Italy. Conrad II ( 12 February 1074 &ndash 27 July 1101) was the second son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Coloman I the Book-lover (I (Könyves Kálmán) also spelled Koloman (c Robert I Capet (1011 &ndash March 21 1076) was Duke of Burgundy between 1032 to his death Henry del Vasto (died before 1141) was a son of Manfred del Vasto Margrave of Western Liguria, and brother of Adelaide, countess of Sicily Robert I of Bassunvilla (also Basunvilla and Bassonville) (died in 1138 or 1140 was a Norman baron from Molise. Adelaide del Vasto ( Adelasia, Azalaïs) (c 1075 &ndash April 16, 1118) was the third wife of Roger I of Sicily and mother of Boniface del Vasto was the Margrave of Western Liguria from 1084 to 1125 the son and successor of Otto. They married in 1087. Their children were:

  1. Simon, Count of Sicily
  2. Matilda, married Ranulf II, Count of Alife
  3. Roger II, Count, later King, of Sicily
  4. Maximilla, married Hildebrand VI (of the Aldobrandeschi family)

Roger I in media

Roger I appears in the game Crusader Kings in the court of Robert Guiscard,Duke of Apulia. Simon of Hauteville (1093 - 1105 called Simon de Hauteville in French and Simone D'Altavilla in Italian was the eldest son and successor of Roger the Great Ranulf II (or Rainulf, Italian: Rainolfo d'Alife; died 30 April 1139) was the count of Alife and Caiazzo, and Roger II ( 22 December 1095 &ndash 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his Robert Guiscard (from Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, often rendered the Resourceful, the Cunning, the Wily This is a list of Counts and Dukes of Apulia and Calabria in Southern Italy from the 11th century to the 12th century He also appears in the game Medieval II: Total War as the King of Sicily.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone

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Preceded by
—		 Count of Sicily
1071–1101		 Succeeded by
Simon
The following is a list of monarchs of Sicily. Counts of Sicily Sicily was granted pending its Christian reconquest to Robert Guiscard as "duke" Simon of Hauteville (1093 - 1105 called Simon de Hauteville in French and Simone D'Altavilla in Italian was the eldest son and successor of Roger the Great
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