# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-ii-of-sicily
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:54:43.981Z

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name: "Roger II of Sicily"
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description: "He fused Norman knights, Greek bureaucrats, and Arab scholars into a Mediterranean kingdom so administratively advanced it made the Holy Roman Empire look like a franchise operation run by cousins."
tagline: "King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154"
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birthDate: "1095-12-22"
deathDate: "1154-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Roger II inherited the County of Sicily in 1105 as a boy, added the Duchy of Apulia and Calabria in 1127, and in 1130 convinced an antipope to crown him King of Sicily — the first king on the Italian peninsula in three centuries. By 1148 he'd taken enough of North Africa to style himself King of Africa. He ran a court in three languages, minted gold like Byzantium, and built a state apparatus that survived him by a century.