Guiscard, Robert

Birth Name Guiscard, Robert 1 2a
Gramps ID I7861
Gender male
Age at Death 70 years, 6 months, 16 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E9386] 1015 Normandy  
2b
Death [E9387] 1085-07-17 Cephalonia  
2c

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Hauteville, Tancred [I8207]about 1041
Mother of Normandy, Fredesendis [I8208]1057
         Guiscard, Robert [I7861] 1015 1085-07-17

Families

    Family of Guiscard, Robert and , Sichelgaita [F4599]
Unknown Partner , Sichelgaita [I8215] ( * 1025 + 1090-07-27 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
of Apulia, Mathilde [I8362]about 1058

Narrative

[charlemegne.FTW]

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?

Narrative

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I7861:

Line ignored as not understood Line 164991: 2 SOUR @S159427@
Skipped subordinate line Line 164992: 3 DATA
Skipped subordinate line Line 164993: 4 TEXT Date of Import: Sep 24, 2000

 

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 2458312322
 

Pedigree

  1. de Hauteville, Tancred [I8207]
    1. of Normandy, Fredesendis [I8208]
      1. Guiscard, Robert
        1. , Sichelgaita [I8215]
          1. of Apulia, Mathilde [I8362]

Ancestors

Source References

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  2. charlemegne.FTW [S159427]
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