Cook Family Ancestry Simon Prince of Taranto [63794] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Roger I of Sicily Count of Sicily [6372]
(1031-1101)

Adelaide del Vasto Queen Consort of Jerusalem [63775]
(1075-1118)

Hugues I Count of Molise [63793]

Roger II the Great of Sicily King of Naples and Sicily [6371]
(-1154)

Doughter [63792]

Simon Prince of Taranto [63794]

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Simon Prince of Taranto [63794] ¹²⁷

bullet General Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Taranto

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Prince of Taranto, 1144. was created by his father Prince of Taranto in 1144, on the death of Roger III, Duke of Apulia , the eldest legitimate son of Roger II. the eldest legitimate son of Roger II.

• Deposed: Prince of Taranto, 1154. n 1154, the elder Roger died and the kingdom of Sicily passed to his fourth son William . This William dispossessed his half-brother Simon immediately, claiming that Taranto was too important a fief to go to an illegitimate son. Simon held a grudge against the king and was called upon by Matthew Bonnellus to lead the revolt in the capital city of Palermo in 1161.

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Simon Prince of Taranto [63794] ¹²⁷