Roger's consort Adelaide brings settlers from the …
Years: 1098 - 1098
September
Roger's consort Adelaide brings settlers from the valley of the Po River to colonize eastern Sicily.
Roger as a secular ruler seems a reliable ally, since he is merely a vassal of his kinsman the Count of Apulia, himself a vassal of Rome, so it seems safe at the time for Urban to give him these extraordinary powers, which are later to lead to bitter confrontations with Roger I's Hohenstaufen heirs.
Locations
People
Groups
- Germans
- Oghuz Turks
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Normans
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Turkmen people
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Seljuq Empire (Isfahan)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Christians, Eastern Orthodox
- Sicily, County of
- Rum, Sultanate of
- Apulia, Norman Duchy of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
