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Regency during Roger II's minority in Sicily

Type Event Region Italy Time 1105–1112

Around 1111 Count Roger II of Sicily was still a minor, and his mother Adelaide del Vasto ruled as regent, governing Sicily and Calabria in practice.…

Timeline

  1. 1105Sicily · SicilyAfter the death of Count Roger I of Sicily, the young Roger II inherited the county, and a regency became a necessary arrangement to preserve the legitimacy of Norman rule and the integrity of the territories.
  2. 1111Palermo · SicilyIn 1111 Roger II was about sixteen and had not yet fully assumed personal rule; his mother Queen Adelaide governed as regent, continuing the Arab-style fiscal system and the joint rule of the Norman military nobility.
  3. 1112Sicily · SicilyAround 1112 Roger II began to rule in his own right; the pluralistic governance and fiscal system maintained during the regency became an important legacy for his later establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily.

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