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See also:FLOR, See also:ROGER DI , a military adventurer of the 13th—14th See also:century, was the second son of a See also:falconer in the service of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II., who See also:fell at See also:Tagliacozzo (1268), and when eight years old was sent to See also:sea in a See also:galley belonging to the Knights See also:Templars. He entered the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and became See also:commander of a galley. At the See also:siege of See also:Acre by the See also:Saracens in 1291 he was accused and denounced to the See also:pope as a thief and an apostate, was degraded from his See also:rank, and fled to See also:Genoa, where he began to See also:play the pirate. The struggle between the See also:kings of See also:Aragon and the See also:French kings of See also:Naples for the See also:possession of See also:Sicily was at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time going on; and Roger entered the service of Frederick, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Sicily, who gave him the rank of See also:vice-See also:admiral. At the See also:close of the See also:war, in 1302, as Frederick was anxious to See also:free the See also:island from his See also:mercenary troops (called Almugavares), whom he had no longer the means of paying, Roger induced them under his leadership to seek new adventures in the See also:East, in fighting against the See also:Turks, who were ravaging the See also:empire. The emperor Andronicus II. accepted his offer of service; and in See also:September 1303 Roger with his See also:fleet and See also:army arrived at See also:Constantinople. He was adopted into the imperial See also:family, was married to a See also:grand-daughter of the emperor, and was made grand See also:duke and commander-in-See also:chief of the army and the fleet. After some See also:weeks lost in dissipation, intrigues and bloody quarrels, Roger and his men were sent into See also:Asia, and after some successful encounters with the Turks they went into See also:winter quarters at See also:Cyzicus. In May 1304 they again took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and rendered the important service of relieving See also:Philadelphia, then invested and reduced to extremities by the Turks. But Roger, See also:bent on advancing his own interests rather than those of the emperor, determined to found in the East a principality for himself. He sent his treasures to See also:Magnesia, but the See also:people slew his Catalans and seized the treasures. He then formed the siege of the See also:town, but his attacks were repulsed, and he was compelled to retire. Being recalled to See also:Europe, he settled his troops in See also:Gallipoli and other towns, and visited Constantinople to demand pay for the Almicsgavares. Dissatisfied with the small sum granted by the emperor, he plundered the See also:country and carried on intrigues both with and against the emperor, receiving reinforcements all the while from all parts of See also:southern Europe. Roger was now created See also:Caesar, but shortly afterwards the See also:young emperor See also:Michael See also:Palaeologus, not daring to attack the fierce and now augmented bands of adventurers, invited Roger to See also:Adrianople, and there contrived his assassination and the See also:massacre of his Catalan See also:cavalry (See also:April 4, 1306). His See also:death was avenged by his men in a fierce and prolonged war against the Greeks.
See Moncada, Expedition de los Catalanes y Aragoneses contre Turcos y Griegos (See also:Paris, 1840).
End of Article: FLOR, ROGER DI
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