MILITARY PERSONNEL

Roger of Lauria

1245 - 1305

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Roger of Lauria (c. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian knight who served the Crown of Aragon as admiral of the Aragonese navy during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tactician of the Middle Ages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger of Lauria has received more than 102,825 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Roger of Lauria is the 524th most popular military personnel (up from 695th in 2019), the 1,393rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,698th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Roger of Lauria ranks 524 out of 2,058Before him are Stonewall Jackson, Bo'orchu, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ernst Lindemann, and Dmitry Pozharsky. After him are Stepa Stepanović, Živojin Mišić, Jacques MacDonald, Pál Maléter, Creighton Abrams, and Cao Zhen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1245, Roger of Lauria ranks 3Before him are Philip III of France, and Kunigunda of Halych. After him are Adam de la Halle, Nicholas of Tolentino, Al-Adil Kitbugha, Edmund Crouchback, and Ma Duanlin. Among people deceased in 1305, Roger of Lauria ranks 7Before him are William Wallace, Joan I of Navarre, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, Roger de Flor, John IV Laskaris, and Guy, Count of Flanders. After him are Nicholas of Tolentino, Moses de León, Jean de Meun, Emperor Kameyama, Maximus Planudes, and Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roger of Lauria ranks 1,393 out of 5,161Before him are Carlo M. Cipolla (1922), Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1835), Melozzo da Forlì (1438), and Leonardo Leo (1694). After him are Francesco Cilea (1866), Angelo Schiavio (1905), Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), Johnny Torrio (1882), Gennaro Gattuso (1978), and Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Roger of Lauria ranks 26Before him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (1869), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), Armando Diaz (1861), and Andreas Hofer (1767). After him are Giorgio Basta (1550), Ugo Cavallero (1880), Hermocrates (-500), Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781), Giovanni Andrea Doria (1539), and Ottavio Piccolomini (1599).