One group of chroniclers wrote early in John's life, or around the time of his accession, including Richard of Devizes, William of Newburgh, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto.

He crowned the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI on the day after his election in 1191 with a ceremony symbolizing his absolute supremacy, as described by Roger of Hoveden.

Roger of Hoveden wrote:

Roger of Hoveden claimed that Henry's corpse bled from the nose in Richard's presence, which was taken as a sign that Richard had caused his death.

Roger of Hoveden, in his Gesta Regis Ricardi, claimed that the rioting was started by the jealous and bigoted citizens, and that Richard punished the perpetrators, allowing a forcibly converted Jew to return to his native religion.

* Roger of Hoveden, Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene, ed.

* Roger of Hoveden on Richard the Lion-Hearted and King Philip II of France

In England, however, the Historia was expanded in Latin, with additional information from the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, and the chronicle of Roger Hoveden ; this version was written around 1220.

* Roger of Hoveden

At Perth, Roger of Hoveden reports, he faced a rebellion by six earls, led by Ferchar, Mormaer of Strathearn, who besieged the king.

Among the most notable examples of his work for the Rolls series are the prefaces to Roger of Hoveden, the Gesta regum of William of Malmesbury, the Gesta Henrici II, and the Memorials of St. Dunstan.

Henry of Huntingdon and after him Roger of Hoveden say the speech was made by Radulf Novell Bishop of Orkney as the representative of Thurstan.

* Riley, Henry-translation of Roger of Hoveden The History of England and of Other Countries of Europe from A. D. 732 to A. D. 1201 ( London, 1853 )-see link below

* Roger of Hoveden

" Tourneamentum "), the best is that of Roger of Hoveden, who described tournaments as " military exercises carried out, not in the knight's spirit of hostility ( nullo interveniente odio ), but solely for practice and the display of prowess ( pro solo exercitio, atque ostentatione virium ).

** Roger of Hoveden, ed.

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* Roger of Hoveden.

* Annals of Roger de Hoveden in English translation.

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Roger of Hoveden wrote " lapis supra lapidem non remansit " ( not a stone upon a stone remained ), indeed the Roman Commune's army took away the stones of the walls of Tusculum as spoils of war in Rome.

In 1187, Philip II and Richard were more than strong allies, as Roger of Hoveden reported:

These include Robert of Torigni's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and Gervase of Canterbury's works.

Although later Catholic historians and many other scholars disagree, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris wrote that Peter the Hermit was the true author and originator of the First Crusade, a view also recounted in the anonymous Gesta Francorum-written c. 1100-and by Albert of Aix in his Historia Hierosolymitanae Expeditionis

According to the Gesta Regis Stephani, a 12th-century historical text, Roger de Beaumont died on hearing the news that his wife had handed over the castle.

Abbas Benedictus ( died 1194 ), abbot of Peterborough, whose name is accidentally connected with the Gesta Henrici Regis Secundi and Gesta Regis Ricardi, among the most valuable of English 12th century chronicles, which are now attributed to Roger of Howden.

In the twentieth century, D. M. Stenton formulated the theory, developed further by David Corner, and now generally accepted, that the true author of the Gesta is, in fact, Roger of Howden.

Stubbs conjecturally identified the first part of the Gesta ( 1170 – 1177 ) with the Liber Tricolumnis, a register of contemporary events kept by Richard Fitz Neal, the treasurer of Henry II and author of the Dialogus de Scaccario ; the latter part ( 1177 – 1192 ) was ascribed by Stubbs to Roger of Howden.

* David Corner, " The Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica of Roger, Parson of Howden ", Bulletin of the Institute of Historical research, vol.

Some popular modern histories have claimed that he was fleeing vengeance after committing a private murder: this is due to a failure to recognise Branas's name, garbled into " Lyvernas " in the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( sometimes known as The Chronicle of Ernoul ), and Roger of Howden's abridgement of his own Gesta regis Henrici Secundi ( formerly attributed to Benedict of Peterborough ).

* Roger of Howden, Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis, ed.

* David Corner, " The Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica of Roger, Parson of Howden ", Bulletin of the Institute of Historical research, vol.

Roger of Hoveden wrote two important works: the Gesta Henrici II (" Deeds of Henry II ", alternatively titled Gesta Henrici et Ricardi, " Deeds of Henry and Richard ") and the Chronica, the latter a re-worked and supplemented version of the former.

King World chairman Roger King was reported in the New York Daily News as being embarrassed by the show's ratings and derision of being a ' bad Regis and Kelly clone ', and told the staff this upon the show's cancellation announcement, refusing to congratulate them on a good run.

The Formula One driver David Purley, best known for his attempt to save the life of fellow racing driver Roger Williamson during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix, was born in Bognor Regis, where he was killed after crashing his aerobatic biplane into the sea off Bognor Regis on July 2, 1985.

* 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by Muhammad al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154

* 1095 – Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily ( d. 1154 )

The King still lost, she was given shelter and food by servants of King Roger II of Sicily, until the King eventually reached Calabria, and she set out to meet him there.

* 1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

There were singer-lutenists at the court in Palermo following the Norman conquest of the island, and the lute is depicted extensively in the ceiling paintings in the Palermo ’ s royal Cappella Palatina, dedicated by the Norman King Roger II in 1140.

In 1992, he appeared as himself on Roger Waters's rock album Amused to Death, giving a mock commentary on the destruction of an oil rig on the song " Perfect Sense, Part II ".

* 1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.

He failed to prevent Roger II of Sicily from extending his power in southern Italy and was unable to stop Louis VI of France from interfering in the affairs of the French church.

Roger II of Sicily who forced Pope Honorius II to grant him the Duchy of Apulia

In July 1127, William II, Duke of Apulia, died childless, and almost immediately his cousin King Roger II of Sicily sailed to the mainland to occupy the duchies of Apulia and Calabria.

On 30 December 1127, Honorius preached a crusade against Roger II after having anointed Robert as Prince of Capua.

Trying to salvage something of the situation, Honorius sent his trusted advisor Cardinal Aymeric together with Cencio II Frangipane to negotiate with Roger secretly.

They refused, and Honorius asked Roger II of Sicily to punish the city in May 1130, but Honorius died before action was taken.

The geographical text of Muhammad al-Idrisi, compiled for the Norman King of Sicily Roger II in 1154 mentions itriyya manufactured and exported from Norman Sicily:

He was opposed to Innocent II ’ s concessions to King Roger II of Sicily and was in favor of the House of Plantagenet ’ s claim to the English throne, thus opposed to King Stephen of England.

In 1098, after a meeting at the Siege of Capua, Urban II bestowed extraordinary prerogatives on Roger, some of the very same rights that were being withheld from temporal sovereigns elsewhere in Europe.

By the Second Lateran council of 1139, at which King Roger II of Sicily, Innocent II's most uncompromising foe, was excommunicated, peace was at last restored to the Church.

Pisa could then, unhindered by Genoa, participate in the conflict of Innocent II against king Roger II of Sicily.