Rugieri D'Amici
Ruggero de Amicis (also d'Amico or d'Amici) was a Kingdom of Sicily, Sicilian high administrator and diplomat under the Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II. He served as justiciar of western Sicily between 1239 and 1240, then as captain and master justiciar of all Sicily and Calabria from 1240 until 1241. He was Frederick's ambassador to Ayyubid dynasty, Ayyubid Egypt from 1241 until 1242. He was also active as a vernacular lyric poet, one of the earliest members of the Sicilian school. In 1246, he joined a conspiracy against the emperor and was arrested. He died in prison. Family Ruggero was probably a native of Messina. He held the fiefs of Cerchiara, Castiglione Cosentino, Castiglione and Francavilla Marittima, Francavilla, three fiefs at Cosenza and one fief at Oriolo, all in Calabria. He was married to Venia de Dragone and they had several children, including a son named Corrado and a daughter named Margherita. Ruggero's precise relationship to other person ...
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