Birth and death dates unknown · Historical figure of the Crusading era
Roger de Salerno
Roger de Salerno (Birth and death dates unknown) — Historical figure of the Crusading era. This dossier combines the biographical record with dated events and the listed primary and secondary sources.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DOSSIER
Life and historical role
Life and political setting
Roger de Salerno is documented as historical figure of the crusading era in records connected with Sarmin, Syria, Sarmada / Balat. The available sources do not support assigning unrecorded birth, death or family details.
Career during the Crusading era
The documented career is reconstructed below from the dated event records and their listed narrative sources.
Documented activity: a chronological record
On 14 September 1115, Roger de Salerno appears in the atlas record “Battle of Tell Danith” at Sarmin, Syria. The event is documented through Cambridge History of War, ‘Crusaders and settlers in the East, 1096–1291’, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ‘Haçlılar’, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ‘Crusades’. On 28 June 1119, Roger de Salerno appears in the atlas record “Battle of the Field of Blood” at Sarmada / Balat. The event is documented through Cambridge History of War, ‘Crusaders and settlers in the East, 1096–1291’, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ‘Haçlılar’, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ‘Crusades’.
Allies, opponents and geographical range
Roger de Salerno appears in the same records as Bursuk b. Bursuk, İlgazi. Co-occurrence does not always indicate alliance: the connection may involve command, dynastic rivalry, captivity, negotiation or direct conflict.
The principal geographical range represented in the atlas is Sarmin, Syria; Sarmada / Balat. These places record not only presence but also the supply lines, diplomatic contacts and limits of authority relevant to the biography.
Results of recorded decisions
The “Battle of Tell Danith” dossier records the consequences of this episode and identifies the source problems that limit a definitive reconstruction. Use this record as a starting point for comparing narrative sources, military practice, captivity, negotiation and the legal treatment of war.
The “Battle of the Field of Blood” dossier records the consequences of this episode and identifies the source problems that limit a definitive reconstruction. Use this record as a starting point for comparing narrative sources, military practice, captivity, negotiation and the legal treatment of war.
Sources and historiography
Latin chronicles and dynastic narratives make the person's role visible, while charters, treaties, letters and Arabic, Greek, Armenian or Syriac accounts provide independent controls. Later heroic portraits are evidence for memory and reception, not contemporary biography.
Names and titles vary between languages; variant spellings and titles should be searched together in catalogues and texts. Approximate dates remain marked as such, and later literary or visual fame is separated from contemporary testimony.
Biographical statements are tied to the sources listed on this page and to the connected event dossiers. Approximate or disputed dates remain marked; missing information is not filled by conjecture, and later literary or visual representations are not treated as contemporary portraits.