Knights Writer

Roman Friedrich III was born in New York in 1946. He received a BA from Rutgers University in English Literature and attended business School at NYU. He studied History at the University of California, San Diego in 2014-15.

From 1969 to 2001, he worked as an investment banker traveling extensively during which time he lived in Toronto, New York and Rumson, New Jersey. In 1998 he founded Roman Friedrich & Company. Continuing in the world of finance, in 2001 he moved his firm and family to Vancouver, Canada where he lived until 2011. In 2011, he moved to Rancho Santa Fe, California where he lives today.

In 1995, he became a Trustee for the mutual funds managed by Claymore Securities which was acquired by Guggenheim Advisors. Roman remained on the Boards of the funds until 2023.

Since 1982, his extensive travels to Europe and Latin America has been shared with his wife Stephanie, a painter, who shares Roman’s love of history. In 1984 he began collecting toy medieval lead knights in London which collection is being used as a basis for writing biographies of these knights all of whom lived and participated in the Hundred Years War. In August 2019, he published the first book in the series of biographies, “The Lives of the Knights in the Hundred Years War, Book One - Sir Hugh Calveley”. In October 2020 he published Book Two - William Montagu, The First Earl of Salisbury. In March 2022, he published Book Three - William Montagu, The Second Earl of Salisbury and in 2023 Book Four - Thomas Erpingham.

In 2016 he published his first book in his travel series entitled, "30th Anniversary Trip: Exploring Iberia" followed in 2017 by “Exploring the History, Art and Music of the Holy Roman Empire” and, in 2018, “Exploring the History Art and Music of Bologna and Venice”. In 2020 Roman published his fourth book in the “History, Art and Music” series with “Exploring the History, Art and Music of France”.

His latest Book entitled Exploring the History and Art of Israel was published in November 2023.

In addition to writing, he is involved in the art world as a docent at the San Diego Museum of Art.