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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Anti-Slavery, Religion, and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey
Book by Christine Bolt, Seymour Drescher, Roger Anstey; W. Dawson, 1980
Subjects: Abolitionists--Congresses, Anstey, Roger, Slaves--Emancipation--Congresses
...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...
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Roger Sherman: Signer and Statesman
Book by Roger Sherman Boardman; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1938
Subjects: Sherman, Roger--1721-1793
...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...
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Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson
Book by Roger C. Hutchinson, Phyllis D. Airhart, Marilyn J. Legge, Gary L. Redcliffe; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002
Subjects: Hutchinson, Roger--1935-, Pluralism (Social Sciences), Religion And Ethics
...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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Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way
Book by Frederik Prausnitz; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Composers--United States--Biography, Sessions, Roger--1896-
...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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Roger Williams: Prophet and Pioneer
Book by Emily Easton; Houghton, Mifflin, 1930
Subjects: Williams, Roger--1604?-1683
...II. THE LONDON OF ROGER WlLLIAMSS BOYHOOD...I. SIR EDWARD COKE, ROGER WILLIAMSS PATRON...II. COKE AND BACON...of New England. II THE LONDON OF ROGER WILLIAMSS BOYHOOD...
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Interview with William Roger Louis
Journal article by Roger Adelson; The Historian, Vol. 62, 2000
Subjects: Historians--Interviews, Louis, William Roger--Interviews, University of Texas--Officials and employees
...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...
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A "Pretty Damn Able Commander" Lewis Hyde Brereton: Part II
Journal article by Roger G. Miller; Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001
Subjects: Air warfare, Brereton, Lewis Hyde--Biography, Generals--Biography, United States. Air Force--Personalities, World War II, 1939-1945
...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...
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Roger Williams: Pioneer on America's Journey towards Religious Liberty
Journal article by Virginia C. Barfield; Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2006
Subjects: Freedom of religion--Political aspects, Puritan clergy--Religious aspects, Puritan clergy--Works, Rhode Island--Social aspects, Williams, Roger--Religious aspects, Williams, Roger--Works
...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...
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Roger Bacon on the Division of Statements into Single/multiple and Simple/composed
Journal article by Thomas S. Maloney; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 56, 2002
Subjects: Bacon, Roger--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Logic--History, Philosophy, Medieval
...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...
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Interview with Roger Adelson
Journal article by Joy Margheim; The Historian, Vol. 58, 1996
Subjects: Adelson, Roger--Interviews, Historians--Interviews
...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
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Roger II, King of Sicily, Sicily--History
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...
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The Greatest Traitor the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327-1330
Magazine article by Nigel Saul; History Today, Vol. 53, May 2003
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II (Book)--Book reviews, The Greatest Traitor The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327-1330 (Book)--Book reviews
...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...
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Roger Shattuck, 1923-2005
Magazine article; New Criterion, Vol. 24, January 2006
Subjects: Critics--Appreciation, Critics--Biography, Cultural criticism, Shattuck, Roger--Appreciation
...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...
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Unto Caesar: Religious Groups That Have Allied Themselves with Politicians, and Vice Versa, Have Ignored at Their Peril the Lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. History
Magazine article by Ethan Fishman; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Autumn 2007
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Social policy, Founders (Originators)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, President of the United States--Social policy, Religion and politics--Laws, regulations and rules, United States Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments, Williams, Roger--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...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...
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Roger Ebert
Magazine article by Matthew Rothschild; The Progressive, Vol. 67, August 2003
Subjects: Ebert, Roger--Interviews, Film critics--Interviews
...get over here, were all in the same boat. However, whats interesting is its now going on sixty years since the end of World War II, and the Nazis are still the only dependable villains because nobody else can be demonized now because were so politically correct...
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Roger Defends Pete
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 8, 2003
Subjects: Daltrey, Roger, Townshend, Pete
...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...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II: Tears as Father 'Goes Home
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 4, 2005
Subjects: John Paul II, Pope
...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...
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Cup That Cheers for Roger
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 3, 2009
...wet Glorious Goodwood to take the Stewards Cup. Welsh trainer Roger Charlton (left) was very keen on the chestnuts chances in the...fancied him in the Wokingham, but the ground was too loose. "II took him back to Ascot last weekend. He didnt break at all well...
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Rhyme, No Reason; in a Viennese Whirl: Roger Allam (Right) as the Theatrical Impresario Max Reinhardt
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 13, 2008
...spendthrift consumed esteem, sponging up adoration. Yet, by WorldWar II, his travelling (to America) was that of the wandering, exiled...Salzburg. Things reach cruising altitude only when we see Reinhardt (Roger Allam)rehearsing his servants for a dinner at the mansion. Mr...
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Never over till It's Roger, out; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 17, 2006
...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...
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Roger II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...
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Roger I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Roger of Loria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Flor, Roger De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...
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Guillemin, Roger Charles Louis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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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