• General Notes

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  Robert Guiscard d'Hauteville, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Cici ly, 1058; Norman conqueror of southern Italy; a Crusader; a lead er of the 1st Crusade; captured at Antioch; b. 1015, Normandy, d . 17 July 1085, Cephalonia; md (1) 10051/1052, and div 1058, Alb ereda (Alverade) (cf. 80-32); b. c1032; d. after July 1122; md ( 2) 1058/1059, Sikelgaita (297-32), heiress of Salerno, d. 27 Jul y 1090.
  
  sacked Rome.
  
  
  see Charles Evans's article:
  "The Hauteville Ancestry," TAG 52:23-6 (1976).
  He gives good grounds for discarding the commonly given descent s for the Plantagenets from Robert Guiscard, citing de Vajay an d others.  The only descent left would be from Roger of Sicily [ Robert's brother] through his daughter, Matilda, who married (1 ) Conrad, King of Italy, and (2) Guigues, Count of Albon (d. 112 5).  This Matilda is unquestionably an ancestor of the Plantagen ets.
  
  
  What about the one through the marriage of Robert Guiscard's dau ghter Maud
  with Ramon Berenguer II of Barcelona?  There are lots of lines t here, and
  I wasn't aware that the maternity of Ramon Berenguer III, or th e identity
  of Maud, was in question.  Martin Aurell, who made a careful stu dy of the
  countesses of Barcelona in the eleventh century in "Jalons pou r une
  enqute sur les strategies matrimoniales des comtes catalans (IX e - XIe
  s.)," in Symposium internacional sobre els orgens de Cataluny a (segles
  VIII-XI), 2 vols. (Barcelona, 1991), 1:281-364, did not raise an y
  question about Maud's identity as daughter of Robert & Sikelgait a.  So
  what's with that?

Details of Robert's family with Sichelgaita