Sciacca and Count Roger, is there a family connection here!!!?

Hi tribe,

Well Sciacca what an amazing and beautiful city, an absolute must if traveling to Sicily. Its very European as apposed to being just Sicilian in look, with its Greek, Roman, Arab, even Spanish and Baroque influences on it's architecture showing off an array of styles stretching from the 10th - 16th century. In fact as I'm sure most of you know that the year 1101 the Norman Count Roger gave the town of Sciacca to his daughter Juliet. She enriched the town with churches and monasteries, raised the walls and built a castle. The castle resisted all attacks for several hundred years before the shit hit the fan when in 1400 the marriage of Margherita Peralta and Artale Luna brought about bloody battles between the two opposing families of Luna, of Catalan origins and Perola, of Norman origins. So I'm sure your asking yourself being that the name Rogers is a Norman name from around the 7th century was Count Roger actualy a distant relative, well I tried that one on in an attempt to get a better price on my ceramics purchase to no avail.

 Rogers is a patronymic surname derived from the given name Roger, and meaning "son of Roger." The given name Roger means "famous spear," derived from the Germanic elementshrod "fame" and ger "spear."

Rogers is also possibly a modern form of the ancient Irish name "O'Ruadhraigh."