Sikelgaita di Salerno
- Born: Abt 1040
- Marriage: Robert Guiscard Duca de Apulia, Calabria & Sicily
- Died: 16 Apr 1090, Capua about age 50
- Buried: Abbey of Montecassino
 Noted events in her life were:
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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands: Sichelgaita was the daughter of Guaimar IV Prince of Salerno and his wife Gemma di Capua. Sichelgaita married Robert Guiscard Duke of Apulia, son of Tancred de Hautevill and his second wife Fressenda. "The Gestis Ducum Normannorum names "primogenitam filiam Gaumarii principis Salerni…Sichelgaitam" as the wife of "Robertus Wiscardus Normannigena dux Apulić" [Gestis Ducum Normannorum, Continuatione Roberti 42, MGH SS XXVI, p. 8]. The Annals of Romoald in 1060 record the marriage of "Sikelgaitum Guaimerii principis filia" and "Robbertus Guiscardus" [Romoaldi Annales 1060, MGH SS XIX, p. 406]."
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Wikipedia: Sikelgaita was a Lombard princess and daugher of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno, and the second wife of Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia. Here sister, Gaitelgrima had earlier married Robert's half brother Drogo. This marriage was to help strengthen the alliace with the Lombard princes.
Sikelgaita married Robert Guiscard Duca de Apulia, Calabria & Sicily, son of Tancred de Hauteville and Fressenda. (Robert Guiscard Duca de Apulia, Calabria & Sicily was born about 1015 in Coutances, Normandy, France, died before 17 Jul 1085 in Cefalonia and was buried in Monastery of Santissima Trinitŕ, Venosa.)
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