ORIGIN
Ruggiero's probable amb el toc place in the year 1245 in the country of Lucania, a possessió del kingdom de Sicily located en el district de Val Sinni, close to Calàbria, South of Italian peninsula. Les seves possessions inclouen Basilicata, Cosenza, Scalea i a la llarga number of castles, sux as Rivello, Lagonegro, Laino, Papasidero. Maratea i Lauria, enllaçar el seu nom amb la terra que constitueix el seu feu.
He was the són of family belonging to the Norman oligarchy of Viking origin la had dominada Sicily and Calabria since 11th century and were now un the sphere of Holy Roman Empire of Frederick II Hohenstaufen (r. 1220-1250).
EXIL
Ruggiero di Lauria s'ha d'exiliar l'any 1262 s'hi mati, Isabella d'Amicis, du a la conquesta de les illes de Sicília i de Southern Italy per a Anjou house i Papacy in Rome. Both està part de la retinuació que accompani Constance of Hohenstaufen, daughter lat King of Sicily, Manfred I (r. 1258-1266), a Barcelona on el marriage del infant Peter, són of James I (r. 1213-1276).
He spent la seva adolescència en el royal court, s'anomena night en el passat 14 anys i inseparable companyia del príncep, s when he forged solid and eternal friendship until his death. El seu alt és que això és buried en el royal pantheon de la Monastery de Holy Crosses, fins al tomb de King Peter III (r. 1276-1285) en l'expresa wish of admiral “al feet of my lord”.
ADMIRAL
After occupying some positions of some importance in the Kingdom of Valencia, Ruggiero es appointed admiral of the Crown of Aragon in 1283, with the main objective of rearming the Aragón naval fleet and leading the recovery of Sicily and the lands of southern a child.
Ruggiero returns home becoming a primus inter parells, winning victory after victory over enemies of the Crown of Aragon, being unbeatable at sea. Nicotera, Castellammare di Stàbia, Ponza, Capo di Orlando, Les Formigues, Malta i decisiu victory en el Coll de Panissars el 1285, que és el king i el friend, Peter III, diet, és un bon profit de la seva activitat als militars i strategistes.
“Sire, no només del que no té en compte que l'any gallei o altres vessels attempt do sail the sea with the safe conduct of the King of Aragon, la night galley or log, but no think think any fish will attempt to rise above the sea if it does its tail to show the safe conduct of the King of Aragon”.
DIPLOMATIC
La seva influència militar shifted durant lestes de la seva vida en el diplomatic sorra, participant en el pece talxes que la vall Aragonesa s'aigua a l'Anjou house and Papacy envers war per a control Sicily and southern Italy.
His main success as diplomat was obtained with the Peace of Anagni in 1295, which closed the war of the Sicilian Vespers between the Crown of Aragón and new kingdom of Naples, formen by split of kingdom of Sicily, and with the Peace Anjou renounced his sovereignty over the island of Sicily.
