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- Roger I (Italian: Ruggero I, Arabic: رُجار, Rujār; Maltese: Ruġġieru, c. 1031 – 22 June 1101), nicknamed Roger Bosso and The Great, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101. He was a member of the House of Hauteville, and his descendants in the male line continued to rule Sicily down to 1194.
Hauteville family
The Hauteville was a Norman family originally of seigneurial rank from the Cotentin. The Hautevilles rose to prominence through their part in the Norman conquest of southern Italy. By 1130, one of their number, Roger II, was made the first King of Sicily. His male-line descendants ruled Sicily u…
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Roger I (Italian: Ruggero I, Arabic: رُجار, Rujār; Maltese: Ruġġieru, c. 1031 – 22 June 1101), nicknamed Roger Bosso and The Great, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101. He was a member of the House of Hauteville, and his descendants in the male line … See more
Roger was the youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fredisenda. Roger arrived in Southern Italy in the summer of 1057. The Benedictine monk, Goffredo Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and … See more
Politically supreme, the count also became master of the insular church. The Papacy, favouring a prince who had recovered Sicily from Greeks … See more
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• Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016–1130. London: Longmans, 1967. See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Images of Roger I of Sicily
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