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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 and Muslims, in 1098 granted Roger and … See more
Roger's eldest son, Jordan, predeceased him. Roger's second son, Geoffrey, possibly illegitimate, was a leper with no chance of inheriting.
Roger's first marriage took place in 1062, to Judith d'Évreux. She died in 1076, leaving daughters: See more• Aubé, Pierre. Roger II de Sicile. Un Normand en Méditerranée. Payot, 2001.
• Alex Metcalfe. The Muslims of Medieval Italy. Edinburgh, 2009. See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Roger I of Sicily - Air.Wiki
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