Geoffrey of Conversano 
Geoffrey was born in 1039 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy.1 Geoffrey's father was <Unknown> and his mother was of Hauteville. His maternal grandparents were Seigneur Tancred Guiscard de Hauteville III and Fredesende of Normandy. He was an only child.General Notes
Geoffrey the Elder (died after 1085), a nephew of Robert Guiscard through one of his sisters, was the count of Conversano, Brindisi, and Nardò from 1068 to his death.
According to Goffredo Malaterra, Geoffrey conquered most of his lands (castra) with his own energy (sua strenuitate) and without the help of the Guiscard. Thus, when, in 1067, the Guiscard demanded homage for the castle of Montepeloso, Geoffrey refused. Robert brought him to heel in the subsequent war and Geoffrey did homage. Among the other lands Geoffrey had conquere from the Byzantines were Polignano and Monopoli.
Geoffrey joined his cousins Abelard and Herman and his brother Robert in the rebellion of 1079-1082, while the Guiscard was away fighting the Byzantine Empire in the Balkans. His brother died in July 1080 and Abelard a year later. While he was besieging Oria, a city on the Via Appia between Brindisi and Taranto, Robert returned at Otranto and began to march towards him. Geoffrey, though he had numerous troops, fled anyway.
By 1083, Geoffrey was reconciled to Robert Guiscard and accompanied him on his final Byzantine expedition. He last appears in 1085 and left three sons and a daughter
(Wikipedia)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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<Unknown>
- b.1039 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy
- b.0905 in Hauteville, Normandy, France
- b.0930 in Hauteville, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.0955 in Hauteville, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.0985 in Hauteville, Normandy, France d.1051 in Hauteville, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0964 in Fecamp, Normandy, France
- b.0890 in Haithabu, Jutland, Denmark
- b.0935 in Brionne, Normandy, France
- b.0917 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Martime, France
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0958 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, France
- b.0921 in Crepon, Normandy, France d.1002 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Normandie d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.0923 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1002
- b.0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1057 in Hauteville, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.0910 d.0970
- b.0927 in Bretagne, France d.27 Jun 0992 in Conquereuil, Bretagne, France
- b.0925 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- b.0956 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.11 Nov 0938 in Anjou, France d.21 Jul 0987
- b.0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992 in Penthiève, Bretagne, France
- b.0930 in Vermandois, Neustria d.08 Apr 0976
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Details of Geoffrey's family with <Unknown>
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