ROGER I., “grand count” of Sicily, the twelfth and youngest son of Tancred de Hauteville in Normandy, was born about 1031. He joined his brother Robert Guiscard (7.v.) in Italy in 1058, and after taking part with him in his conquests on the mainland passed over to Sicily in 1061. There such success attended his arms that in 1071 he took the title of count; in 1089 he became “grand count” and in 1098 received from the pope for himself and his successors the title of “legate apostolical” in Sicily. He died in 1101. See Sicily.

ROGER IL count of Sicily, son of the preceding, was born about 1093 and died in 1154. He obtained from the antipope Anacletus II. the title of king of Sicily in 1130, and was crowned in the same year. The title was afterwards confirmed in 1139 by Innocent II. See Sicily.