20 Most Evil People of the 11th Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Bosso, Rogelio
Born	1031
Location	Zaragoza, Northern Spain
Bloodline	Borja
Married	Yes
Children	Roger II of Sicily
Position	Count of Sicily
Died	June 1101 (Aged 70)

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Roberto was born into a mercenary military family in the Basque city of Zaragoza in Northern Spain. Since the end of Roman occupation, the Basques for centuries had fought for their independence against the Muslim invaders and then the Frankish kings - suffering some of their most humiliating defeats and punishments under the founders of Catholicism.

During the 17th and 18th Century it was decided by the Vatican and Jesuits to re-write the founders of the Borja noble titles in Italy to Norman mercenaries largely to lessen the obvious historic importance of the Basque region and the Borja in founding not only the Roman Cult, but also the Jesuits themselves. Today, much of the history surrounding Rogelio has been deliberately distorted making a clear understanding very difficult.

Contrary to the deliberate fiction created around the origin of Rogelio and his brother Roberto as being "Norman", the 11th Century Norman knights arrived in Italy as part of the invasion by Holy Catholic Emperor Henry III in 1046 against the Borja and other Venetian mercenary. Secondly, these pious and honorable Catholic knights considered the Italian pagan princes and satanic Roman families as their arch-enemies. Therefore, the entire claimed history written about Roberto in the past few hundred years as highly unreliable.

What is clear is that both Roberto and Rogelio arrived as young mercenaries for hire in Italy well before the invasion of Holy Catholic Emperor Henry III in 1046. The date of 1042/43 is probably a reasonable date. As mercenaries, they would have come to Italy to join one of the private armies of the Italian princes, most probably the Princes of Capua and their city of Benevento in Southern Italy.

When Gregory VII assumed the role of Pontifex Maximus around 1057, it was the Roberto Borja that became the most trusted military protector of this first "Pope" of the Roman Cult.

Having secured power in Rome, Roberto and Roger Borgia then took this massive mercenary army south and captured Messina in 1061. By 1072 Palermo in Sicily was also taken and Roger was installed as the newly formed Count of Sicily.

In 1083 on the imminent invasion of Italy by German Emperor Henry IV, Antipope Gregory VII recalled the Borja and mercenary army north to defend Rome. In 1084, Henry moved south with a massive force of some 36,000 soldiers- crushing everything before them. Robert chose to go, while Roger Borja chose to remain in Sicily and defend the newly acquired family lands.

Henry's massive force finally broke the siege of Roman Cult Leader Antipope Gregory VII in Rome who had been protected by the mercenary army of Robert Borja. Robert Borja managed to escape with some of his men, but Antipope Gregory VII was not so lucky and was promptly tried, excommunicated and executed as a heretic of the Catholic Church. Later this historic event was deliberately misconstrued to claim that it was the mercenary army of Robert Borja (the Guiscard), not Emperor Henry IV that liberated Rome from the heretical Roman Cult.

Robert Borja then fled to Benevento and the father of Zotto, who promptly claimed himself Pontifex Maximus as the heretical Roman Cult AntiPope Victor III (1084–86) against the reign of the true Catholic Pope Clement III (1080, 1084–1100). The elite Norman troops of Henry IV then beseiged Benevento until finally the well fortified city fell in 1085 and AntiPope Victor III along with Robert Borja were executed as heretics against the Catholic faith.

Zotto and the few remaining Roman Cult priests along with the remnants of the Borja mercenary army managed to escape south to Sicily and around 1085 they named Zotto as the new heretical AntiPope Urban II -- Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Cult.

Roger successfully blocked any incursions into his land from the Germans and by 1086 captured Syracuse. Roger now have effective control over most of Sicily including significant parts of Apulia and Calabria

By 1091, Roger felt confident enough in his control to order an attack on Malta. He died in 1101 and was succeeded by his eldest son Roger II.


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