<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_II_of_Sicily" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roger II of Sicily">Roger II of Sicily</a> is excommunicated by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_II" id="mwJA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Innocent II">Innocent II</a> for supporting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Anacletus_II" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Antipope Anacletus II">Anacletus II</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope">pope</a> for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_8#cite_note-3" id="mwJw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKA">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFNorwich2011">Norwich, John Julius (2011). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OHfuVL-sDBQC" id="mwBys" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwByw">Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy</i></a>. New York: Random House. pp.<span id="mwBy0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>135–136. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBy4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBy8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781400067152" id="mwBzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781400067152"><bdi id="mwBzE">9781400067152</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBzI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Absolute+Monarchs%3A+A+History+of+the+Papacy&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=135-136&amp;rft.pub=Random+House&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=9781400067152&amp;rft.aulast=Norwich&amp;rft.aufirst=John+Julius&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOHfuVL-sDBQC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+8"></span></span>