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Name: Roger, II
Birth Date: 1095
Death Date: February 26, 1154
Place of Birth: Sicily
Place of Death: Sicily
Nationality: Sicilian
Gender: Male
Occupations: king

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Biography of Roger, II
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Roger II (1095-1154), king of Sicily from 1130 to 1154, was the most able ruler in 12th-century Europe. He organized a multiracial, multinational kingdom in which Arabic, Byzantine, Lombard, Jewish, and Norman cultures produced a brilliant cosmopolitan...


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Roger Ii of Sicily Summary
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1095-1154 Norman king of Sicily who established the first compulsory medical examinations for European doctors. Roger, whose reign began in 1130, waged a successful war against the Byzantine Empire, created a civil service, and made his capital at...
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Roger II (22 December 1095[1] – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, later became Duke of Apulia and Calabria (1127), then King of Sicily...


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Journal of Church and State
Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
01/01/2004: 819 words, approx. 3 pages
Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West. By Hubert Houben. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 231 pp. n.p. Roger II of Sicily is well known as the founder of the Norman kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century....
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The death of Roger II of Sicily: February 26th, 1154.
02/01/2004: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
THE NEPHEW OF Robert Guiscard and son of Count Roger I of Sicily, Roger II succeeded to Sicily at the age of nine in 1105 and took personal control in 1112, when he was sixteen. Subduing all opposition, he ruled it until his...
 


 

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