Chapter Rock to Rogero, of R by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Rogel of Greece. A knight, whose exploits and adventures form a supplemental part of the Spanish romance entitled Amadis of Gaul. This part was added by Feliciano de Silva.

Roger The cook in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. “He cowde roste, sethe, broille, and frie. Make mortreux, and wel bake a pye;” but Herry Bailif, the host, said to him-

“Now telle on, Roger, and loke it be good;
For many a Jakk of Dover hastow sold.
That hath be twyës hoot and twyës cold.”
Verse 4343.

   Roger Bontemps. (See Bontemps.)
   The Jolly Roger. The black flag, the favourite ensign of pirates.

“Set all sail, clear the deck, stand to quarters, up with the Jolly Roger!”- Sir Walter Scott: The Pirate, chap. xxxi.

   Roger of Bruges. Roger van der Weyde, painter. (1455-1529.)
   Roger de Coverley. A dance invented by the great-grandfather of Roger de Coverley, or Roger of Cowley, near Oxford. Named after the squire described in Addison's Spectator.
   Roger of Hoveden or Howden, in Yorkshire, continued Bede's History from 732 to 1202. The reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. are very fully given. The most matter- of-fact of all our old chroniclers; he indulges in no epithets or reflections.

Rogero, Ruggiero or Rizieri of Risa (in Orlando Furioso), was brother of Marphisa, and son of Rogero and Galacella. He married Bradamant, Charlemagne's niece, but had no issue. Galacella being slain by Agolant and his sons, Rogero was nursed by a lioness. Rogero deserted from the Moorish army to the Christian Charles, and was baptised. His marriage with Bradamant and election to the crown of Bulgaria conclude the poem.
   Rogero was brought up by Atlantes, a magician, who gave him a shield of such dazzling splendour that everyone quailed who set eyes on it. Rogero, thinking it unknightly to carry a charmed shield, threw it into a well.

“Who more courteous than Rogero?”- Cervantes: Don Quixote.

   Rogero (in Jerusalem Delivered), brother of Boemond, and son of Roberto Guiscardo, of the Norman race, was one of the band of adventurers in the crusading army. Slain by Tisaphernes. (Bk. xx.)