Roger Borsa

Roger Borsa (c. 1061; † February 22, 1111 ) was from 1085 Duke of Apulia. He was a son of Robert Guiscard and his second wife Sikelgaita of Salerno and thus a member of the Norman Hauteville family.

He participated on the side of his father and his half-brother Bohemond in the conquest of the Byzantine possessions in southern Italy and the conquest of Corfu in 1083. After the death of his father in July 1085 he supplanted his brother and became Duke of Apulia and Calabria. However, Roger had not the strength of his father and wore out with battles against the warlike Norman barons to maintain his authority. Also succeeded Bohemund from the end of 1085, the South of Puglia to seize and especially to conquer Taranto. 1091 he called his uncle Roger I of Sicily to help in the uprising in Calabria to master. In 1096 he lost control of Amalfi.

During the First Crusade, he was the host of marauding Crusaders, most notably Duke Robert II of Normandy, which he recorded with him during his return in the autumn of 1099 to the spring of 1100.

In 1092 he married Adela of Flanders, the daughter of Count Robert I Of three sons survived only William, who became his successor in Puglia, but vorfand a state in resolution.