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Roger Brother: ROGER II, king of Sicily: b. about 1095; d. February 1154, second son of Roger I. His elder brother, Simon, died in 1102, and during his minority the government was administered first by his mother, Adelheid, a daughter of the Margrave Boniface of Montserrat, and then by Prince Robert of Burgundy. The free barons of the land, however, leagued with Pope Honorius II to break the Norman ascendency. They had no success, and the pope voluntarily confirmed Roger in the possession of Apulia and Calabria. Pope Anacletus extended the confirmation to Capua and Naples; and in 1130 Roger received the title of king.
ROGER I, count of Sicily: b. Normand;. about 1031; d. Mileto, Calabria, 1101. Roger brothers, Drogo, Humphrey, William ar: Robert Guiscard, had acquired fame in Itab and obtained possession of the county c: Aversa, when he was summoned thither by hi-brother Robert, and landed in Apulia in 10:" The two brothers, Robert, the eldest, and I1 . -the youngest, founded the kingdom of the . Sicilies.See Also His Brother James:SIR JOHN RAMSAY (1580?-1626), later Viscount Haddington and earl of Holderness, is believed to have been involved in the so-called Gowrie conspir¬acy of 1600 against James VI of Scotland (James I of England). Although accounts of the affair are confused and contradictory, he is supposed to have saved the king's life by killing the main conspira¬tors, the earl of Gowrie and his brother, at Gowrie House in Perth.
He and his brother James, Jr., were born out of wed-to Rachel Faucitt (or Fawcett or other lings) Lavien and James Hamilton, a younger of the Laird of Cambuskeith. The father idoned them in St. Croix, and Alexander at age of about 12 took a job in Christiansted the New York merchants Nicholas Cruger David Beekman. His business acumen, quick igence, and literary precocity soon attracted ition. A letter he wrote describing a hurri-that gutted Christiansted on Aug. 30, 1772, published in the Royal Danish-American 'e about a month later.
On The Other Hand See His Brother Athenodorus:life. After studying rhetoric, Latin, and Roman law in his native city, Gregory and his brother Athenodorus departed from the famous law school at Beirut. At Caesarea in Palestine, however, they met the theologian Origen (q.v.). Attracted by his learning they spent five years, probably from 233 to 238, studying under his direction, and became Christians. They were consecrated by Phaedimus, bishop of Amasia (now in Turkey), and Gregory became the first bishop of Neocaesarea; the see of Athenodorus is unknown.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, ac¬cording to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhada¬manthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt. |
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