ROGER II

born Dec. 22, 1095 died Feb. 26, 1154, Palermo grand count of Sicily (110530) and king of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily (113054). He also incorporated the mainland territories of Calabria in 1122 and Apulia in 1127. Additional reading A full biography of Roger II in English is John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South (U.S. title, The Other Conquest, 1967), which takes the story of the Norman conquest of South Italy and Sicily up to Roger's coronation in 1130; and its sequel, The Kingdom in the Sun 11301194 (1970). Both volumes contain comprehensive bibliographies. See also F. Chalandon, Histoire de la Domination normande en Italie et en Sicile, 2 vol. (1907, reprinted 1960); and E.L.E. Caspar, Roger II. (11011154) und die Grndung der normannisch-sicilischen Monarchie (1904).