Roger, byname Roger Borsa, Italian Ruggiero Borsa, (born c. 1060—died 1111), Norman duke of Apulia from 1085 to 1111, son of Robert Guiscard.
He had certainly received it from his father by 1134. Roger's first public act took place at Melfi in 1129, where, though still a child, he accepted the fealty of some rebellious barons along with his father and his younger brother Tancred. An extremely religious man, Robert was distrustful of the Greek clergy because of their ties with Byzantium.
According to English historian John Julius Norwich, his nickname came from "his early-ingrained habit of counting and recounting his money.".
The capture of Bari in April 1071 resulted in the end of Byzantine rule in southern Italy. Even the Byzantine court drew closer to him and went as far as trying to establish a familial relationship with Robert. Robert responded to the city’s plea for help in 1073 and successfully defended it; in December 1076 he took Salerno from Gisulf and made it the capital of his duchy. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Category:Roger of Apulia. Roger of Torre Maggiore Archbishop of Split Cathedral of Saint Domnius, Split, Dalmatia ProvinceSplit DioceseArchdio (See Bohemond I). [edit] Rule Soon after his succession, probably in 1058, Guiscard separated from his wife Alberada because they were related within the prohibited degrees to marry Sichelgaita, the sister of Gisulf II of Salerno, Guaimar's successor. During his rise he repressed with an iron hand not only the claims of Humphrey’s sons but also the uprisings of towns and lords that were fretting under the restraints imposed upon them.
With his brother Guy and his half brother Bohemond, Roger participated in Robert Guiscard’s capture of Byzantine Corfu, off the coast of Greece, in 1083. On the other hand, his generosity toward the Latin church was bountiful. In 1059 he entered into a concordat at Melfi with Pope Nicholas II. Loud This poem, one of our principal contemporary sources for the Norman Conquest of Italy, was composed between 1096 and 1099.
At that time, late in 1140, Roger's bride to be, Elizabeth, arrived from the court of her father, Theobald II of Champagne. Geoffrey Malaterra, The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of Duke Robert Guiscard his brother, Books One, Two, Three, Four.
On both sides of the Straits of Messina, despite a French-speaking nobility the Hauteville realm was a staggeringly exotic blend of Latin, Greek and Arab civilization. She bore him three sons: Louis, who died young in August 1094; William, who succeeded him; and Guiscard, who died young in August 1108.
He eventually extended Norman rule over Naples, Calabria, and Sicily and laid the foundations of the kingdom of Sicily.
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They had one son: Tancred Palamera Heir Sicily.
The schism that took place between the Greek and Latin churches in 1054 temporarily worsened the relations between the Byzantine emperors and the papacy, and eventually the papacy realized that Norman conquests over the Byzantines could work to its advantage. Robert was born into a family of knights. With the support of Jordan I of Capua, Bohemund rebelled against his brother and took Oria, Otranto, and Taranto. He was the Duke of Apulia from 1134 until his death. He took part in his father's campaigns beginning in 1137, when he distinguished himself in the campaign against Ranulf of Alife, whom Pope Innocent II and the Emperor Lothair II had invested as rival duke of Apulia.