Tancred de Hauteville

  Noted events in his life were:

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands: Tancred de Hauteville was the "hereditary seigneur de Hauteville-le-Guichard, near Coutances, Normandy [Malaterra, Book I.3 and I.4, p. 9]. Orderic Vitalis records that "Tancredus de Alta-Villa" originated "de pago Constantino" [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, V, p. 88]." He married twice, first to a woman named Moriella (mother of six children) and the second Fressenda (mother of eight children). "Malaterra names "Fresendis" as the second wife of Tancred [Malaterra, I.4, p. 9]. A myth, not based on any evidence, emerged in the 16th century to the effect that both wives of Tancred de Hauteville were daughters of Richard I Duke of Normandy [Houts (2000), p. 224, Stasser (1990), p. 55, and Szabolcs de Vajay (1971), pp. 130-1]. Orderic Vitalis records that "Fredesendis uxor Tancredi de Alta-Villa" was buried at "ecclesiam Sanctæ Eufemiæ...super littus Adriatici maris" [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, V, p. 89]. Malaterra names (in order) "Gulielmum…cognomine Ferrea-branchis, Drogonem, Humfredum, Gaufredum et Serlonem" as five sons of Tancred by his first wife and "Robertus…Guiscardus…Malgerius, Willelmus, Alveredus, Hubertus, Tancredus, Rogerius" as his seven sons by his second wife [Malaterra, I.4, p. 9]."

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Wikipedia: Tancred of Hauteville - With his two wives, he had twelve sons and several daughters, almost all of whom left Normandy for Southern Italy and acquired some prominence there.

With his first wife, Muriella, he had five sons and one daughter:

• Serlo (stayed in Normandy)
Beatrix, married first to Armand de Mortain, son of Robert, Count of Eu, and second to a Roger (family unknown)
• Geoffrey, lord of Hauteville, count of Loritello
• William Iron Arm, count of Apulia and Calabria
• Drogo, count of Apulia and Calabria
• Humphrey, count of Apulia and Calabria

With his second wife, Fressenda, he had seven more sons and at least one daughter:

• Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia and Calabria, then duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily
• Mauger, count of the Capitanate (part of the Province of Foggia, within Apulia)
• William, count of the Principate
• Aubrey, stayed in Normandy
• Humbert, stayed in Normandy
• Tancred, stayed in Normandy
• Roger de Hauteville, count of Sicily from 1062
• Fressenda, who married Richard I, count of Aversa and prince of Capua

Tancred married Fressenda.