Roger de Flor

Type Figure Region Mediterranean Time 1267–1305 Also known as Ruggero di Flor、Roger von Blum、Roger de Floris

Roger de Flor (1267–1305) was an Italian-born Aragonese mercenary commander and a leading figure of the Catalan Company.…

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1267–1282Brindisi · ApuliaBorn at Brindisi, he sailed with fleets in his youth and was drawn into Mediterranean conflicts after the War of the Sicilian Vespers, accumulating naval and mercenary experience that laid the foundation for his later command of the Catalan Company.
1303–1305Constantinople · AnatoliaHe led the Catalan Company in the employ of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II, fighting Turkish tribes in Anatolia and winning several victories, before relations with the empire soured over disputes about pay and promised lands.
1305Adrianople · Ottoman frontierOn 4 April 1305 he was assassinated at Adrianople in a plot arranged by the Byzantines; his death provoked a fierce retaliation by the Catalan Company against Byzantium, known in history as the 'Catalan Revenge'.

Roger de Flor — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-de-Flor
The Catalan Expedition to the East — Ramon Muntaner (1328)