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Edits:

• Added Image of Roger I's Coat of Arms
• Added Information on Roger I's Bishop appointments " Of these bishops and other important clergy positions, a minority were French, and of those even fewer were Norman. Of the five new sees he founded, one bishop was Norman and three others were from other parts of France."
• Added Citation on "He was invested with part of Sicily and the title of count by his brother, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, in 1071"
• Added section on the death of Roger and the pass down of his rule between his sons Simon and Roger II "Roger I died on 22 of June 1101 in Mileto. Upon Rogers death his son, Simon of Hauteville, became the Count of Sicily, with his mother, Adelaide del Vasto, acting as his regent. At the age of 12 in 1105 Simon died and the title of Count passed to his younger brother, Roger II of Sicily, with Adelaide continuing on as regent, being the mother of Roger II as well."

Sources:

Burkhardt, Stefan, and Thomas Foerster. Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage : Exchange of Cultures in the 'norman' Peripheries of Medieval Europe. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2013.

Houben, Hubert. Roger Ii of Sicily : A Ruler between East and West. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Stanton, Charles. "Roger De Hauteville, Emir of Sicily." Mediterranean Historical Review 25, no. 2 (2010): 113-32

Barber, Malcolm, and Malcolm Barber. The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320. London: Routledge, 1992.