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Roger Brother: ROGER II, king of Sicily: b. about 1095; d. February 1154, second son of Roger I. His elder brother, Simon, died in 1102, and during his minority the government was administered first by his mother, Adelheid, a daughter of the Margrave Boniface of Montserrat, and then by Prince Robert of Burgundy. The free barons of the land, however, leagued with Pope Honorius II to break the Norman ascendency. They had no success, and the pope voluntarily confirmed Roger in the possession of Apulia and Calabria. Pope Anacletus extended the confirmation to Capua and Naples; and in 1130 Roger received the title of king.
ROGER I, count of Sicily: b. Normand;. about 1031; d. Mileto, Calabria, 1101. Roger brothers, Drogo, Humphrey, William ar: Robert Guiscard, had acquired fame in Itab and obtained possession of the county c: Aversa, when he was summoned thither by hi-brother Robert, and landed in Apulia in 10:" The two brothers, Robert, the eldest, and I1 . -the youngest, founded the kingdom of the . Sicilies.
Some of the Roman Catholics did not rant to wait for the end of the war; they also ranted complete independence. In 1916 a ;roup called the Irish Republican Brother-lood decided to start a rebellion at Easter. Another Irish patriot, Sir Roger Casement, lad gone to Germany to ask for help.
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