Roger of San Severino
Roger of San Severino (Italian Ruggiero di Sanseverino, † 1285), Count of San Severino and Marsico, was an Italian nobleman of Norman descent from the House Sanseverino in the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples. For King Charles I of Anjou, he was the Deputy Regent ( Bailli ) in the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( Acre ).
His father, Thomas ( Tommaso ) of San Severino was with Emperor Frederick II enemies and had to go into exile in the Papal States. Also, Roger and his older brother William ( Guglielmo ) opposed the Hohenstaufen rule, therefore, supported Charles of Anjou in the conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily and fought there in 1266 at the battle of Benevento against King Manfred with. He married Teodora di Aquino, sister of the famous church scholar Thomas Aquinas. Their son was the Count Tommaso di San Severino, who had founded in 1306 to the Charterhouse of Padula. 1271 Roger was appointed by King Charles to his Vicar in Rome.
In March 1277 Charles of Anjou had XXI with the mediation of Pope John. the prince's daughter Maria of Antioch bought her more than thin claim to the crown of Jerusalem and thus declared himself King of Jerusalem. Roger was appointed ( Bailli ) to his deputy and sent a fleet to Acre, where he arrived in September 1277. The actual reigning and recognized by the barons of Jerusalem was King Hugh III. of Cyprus, whose Bailli in Acre was again Balian of Ibelin. With the support of the Templars, the Venetians and the French regiment but Roger had an overwhelming military force at his side, which forced Ibelin to the task. Thus he was able to build the Angevin rule in Acre, the de facto capital of the kingdom, which commanded only by a narrow strip along the coast of Palestine. Here, however, Roger was in fact isolated, since the remaining barons in Tyre and Beirut still recognized the King of Cyprus.
Roger led the positive contacts proceeds to the Mamluk Sultanate in Cairo, Charles of Anjou had previously made. In October 1281, he visited the Sultan Qalawun personally in the camp to congratulate him for the victory that the Mamluks had previously worn in Homs on a Mongolian army of them. After the outbreak of the Sicilian Vespers in May 1282 Roger was retrieved by Charles of Anjou from Acre to assist him in the fight against Aragon in Italy. Roger left the Holy Land in September 1282 and left his seneschal Odo Poilechien as new Bailli back, but had to give up the Angevin rule in Acre 1286.