Richard of Lauria (died 26 February 1266) was an Italian nobleman. He was the father of admiral
Roger of Lauria
Roger of Lauria (''c''. 1245 – 17 January 1305) was a Neapolitan admiral in Aragonese service, who was the commander of the fleet of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talent ...
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Biography
He was lord of
Lauria
Lauria is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, southern Italy, situated near the borders of Calabria. It is a walled, medieval town on the steep side of a hill, with another portion of municipal territory in the p ...
from 1254 and
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The town takes its name from its terraced layout on a hillside at the bottom of the Capo Scalea promonto ...
from 1266, and also held fiefs in
Basilicata
it, Lucano (man) it, Lucana (woman)
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(from 1239) and
Calabria
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. He married
Bella Amico, becoming baron of
Ficarra
Ficarra is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina, in the Monti Nebrodi. It is surrounded by woods of hazel and olive trees.
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Roger's daughter married
Corrado I Lancia Corrado may refer to:
Places
*Anticoli Corrado, comune in the City of Rome
*Monte Vidon Corrado, comune in the Province of Fermo People Given name
*See Corrado (given name) Surname
*Andrea Corrado (1873-1963), Italian ship owner
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, uncle of king
Manfred of Sicily. Under the latter, Richard was Great Justicier and War Captain of
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
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Richard died while fighting alongside Manfred in the
Battle of Benevento, in 1266.
Sources
*{{cite book, first=Vito Pasquale , last=Rossi, title=Uomini Illustri di Lauria, location= Moliterno, publisher=Porfidio, year=1985
13th-century births
1266 deaths
People from Lauria
Italian nobility
Italian military personnel killed in action
Jure uxoris officeholders