ROGER II

c.1095–1154, count (1101–30) and first king (1130–54) of Sicily, son and successor of Roger I. He conquered (1127) Apulia and Salerno and sided with the antipope Anacletus II against Pope Innocent II. In 1130, Anacletus crowned Roger king. Innocent rallied Holy Roman Emperor Lothair II and other allies against Roger but was defeated in 1139. Naples and Capua recognized Roger's sovereignty; Innocent was obliged to invest him with the lands that, for the next seven centuries, were to constitute the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. Roger also conquered the coast of Africa from Tunis to Tripoli. He established a strong central administration and attempted to fuse the disparate ethnic groups in his kingdom. Prosperity returned to Sicily, and Roger's brilliant court at Palermo was a center of the arts, letters, and sciences. Roger was succeeded by his son, William I.

See E. Curtis, Roger of Sicily (1912, repr. 1973); J. J. Norwich, Kingdom in the Sun (1970).

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...Abolitionists -- Congresses I. Anstey, Roger II. Bolt, Christine III. Drescher...Continental model of reform remains. II On the question of the relationship...fall within two broad categories. Roger Anstey, Brian Harrison, G. M. Ditchfield...
...later in life, that Roger Sherman and George...knew. 1 II The name Sherman...behind his age. II It was a world...into which in 1721 Roger Sherman was born...Shermans family. II William Sherman, brother of Roger, on his arrival...
...ethics. 2. Christian ethics. 3. Hutchinson, Roger, 1935-. I. Airhart, Phyllis D. Phyllis Diane , 1953-. II. Legge, Marilyn J. III. Redcliffe, Gary Lorne...Gary L. Redcliffe 1 1. Roger Hutchinson as Ethicist and Educator in an...
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...20 3 Young Roger 25 4 Letters...13 The Musical Idea II 172 14 Teacher...musical instruction her son Roger received at Harvard. But Ruths...Northhampton Alexander II in Russia persuaded Prussian...
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...for my mothers father, William Roger Flood, and I was very close to...musician who had served in World War II. I became the assistant first...type of empire since World War II. There was considerable resentment...authority on the Congo of Leopold II, I also coedited an account of...
...Hyde Brereton: Part II. by Roger G. Miller The...commander." 125 Roger G. Miller is a historian...Army in World War II (Washington, D.C...1946), p. 3. (12.) Roger G. Miller, "A Pretty...American World War II Generals Got Their...
...Complete Writings of Roger Williams," VII, 6...179. (21) Ibid., II, 256: IV, 222. (22...Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious...Complete Writings, II, 241-276. (33) John...Complete Writings, II, 260. (36) Morgan, Roger Williams: The Church...
...treatise on the property of terms. Thus when Roger Bacon is writing his Summulae dialectices...expressed in the subject or predicate, and (ii) expressing what is signified by the statement...few. (1) "La Summulae dialectices de Roger Bacon. 1-2: De termino, De enuntiatione...
...Ministry of Information during World War II. She had served from 1945 to 1958 as the...recent decades than there was after World War II. ASUs history department has allowed me...The journal kept going through World War II despite paper rationing. The news section...
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The Death of Roger II of Sicily: February 26th, 1154...and son of Count Roger I of Sicily, Roger II succeeded to Sicily at the age of nine...disputed between Innocent II and Anacletus II in 1130, Roger supported the latter in return for a...
...Greatest Traitor the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler...and the Strange Death of Edward II Paul Doherty Constable 262 pp...Mortimer are in agreement: Edward II did not die at Berkeley. While Roger and Isabella said in public that...
...Melville, Montaigne, and Moliere. In the "applications" part of his book, Roger concentrates on three cases studies: the decision to build and use the atomic bomb in World War II; the human genome project and the prospect of genetic engineering; and...
...protect the life of the mother. Roger Williams warned religious groups...can perform. Pope John Paul II condemned abortion, birth control...Montesquieu. Moreover, unlike Roger Williams, whose beliefs had...would have aroused the ire of Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson...
...FEBRUARY the Jesuit theologian Roger Haight, former professor at Weston...theology. Building on Vatican II, Pope John Paul II acknowledged...Ecclesia in Asia" Pope John Paul II sought to incorporate some of...the CDFs decision to prohibit Roger Haight from teaching as a Catholic...
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...Roger defends Pete The Whos lead singer, Roger Daltrey, lashed out at Londons Fleet Street...would expect from either of us." Eminem II While Smokey Robinson mulls over working...sgalupo@washingtontimes.com. The Whos Roger Daltrey (left) says embattled band member...
...very satisfying for all of us to see him so serene, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles said after paying his respects. ``His...his reign and to prevent forgeries The body of Pope John Paul II lies in state in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. The Vatican...
...bang, it hits you right between the eyes, says Roger, 58. Hes describing the disused Grade II listed structure that runs straight across the...as Jardines Park and Vegetable Gardens, says Roger, who owns organic food label Sharpham Park and...
...wartime Combined Operations phonetic alphabet which employed Roger to clarify the letter R, the first letter of received. Graeme...a national level were introduced in Germany during World War II as a means of making their postal system, and war effort, more...
...at Messiah Lutheran Church, 25225 Ivanhoe Road, Wauconda. Jack Roger Halvorsen sailed from this life on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. His...salty sailor, having served in the Navy during both World War II and the Korean War. After forty years as a patent attorney for...
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ROGER II c.1095 1154, count (1101 30...Anacletus II against Pope Innocent II . In 1130, Anacletus crowned Roger king. Innocent rallied Holy Roman Emperor Lothair II and other allies against Roger but was defeated in 1139. Naples...
...ethnic groups in his feudal domain justly and tolerantly. In 1098, Roger was made papal legate. His son succeeded him as Roger II. See J. J. Norwich, The Other Conquest (1967). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
...the French fleet off Catalonia. Roger also served James (later James II of Aragon), Peters successor...who bestowed it on Charles II of Naples; James agreed to help...the island. Devoted to Aragon, Roger fought with the Angevins against...
FLOR, ROGER DE d. c.1306, German commander of Spanish...subsequently served as vice admiral under Frederick II of Sicily and after 1302 became the leader...service of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II against the Turks. This Catalan company won...
GUILLEMIN, ROGER CHARLES LOUIS gey maN , 1924 , French-American physiologist, b. Dijon, France. Educated in France, he fought for the resistance during World War II. He taught primarily at Baylor Univ. (1953 70), until he became a researcher...
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