Roger I De Hauteville Count Of SICILY 
Roger I De Hauteville Count Of was born about 1031.1 Roger I De Hauteville Count Of's father was Tancreed De HAUTEVILLE and his mother was Fresende of Normandy. His maternal grandparents were Richard II The Good', Duke of Normandy and Pope (Papie) Duchess Of Normandy. He had two brothers named Robert I "Guiscard" De and Humphrey "Guiscard" De. He had seven half-brothers named Gerard, Drogo, Humphrey, William, Roger I , Count, Robert and William "Iron Arm". He died on June 23rd, 1101.1 General Notes
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Roger I (circa 1031-1101), Norman conqueror of Sicily. Born in Normandy (Normandie), Roger joined his elder brother Robert Guiscard in southern Italy (1057), helping him to win control of that region from the Byzantines. In 1061 he and Robert captured the Sicilian town of Messina from its Muslim rulers, and over the next three decades Roger gradually extended Norman power at the expense of the various Muslim states on the island, completing conquest of Sicily in 1091. While Robert was alive, the brothers shared control of both Sicily and the Italian mainland; after his death in 1085, Roger made himself ruler of Sicily, leaving the other Norman domains to Robert's son, Roger of Apulia. He adopted the title of count and was made papal legate in Sicily by Pope Urban II in 1098. Roger introduced Catholicism into Sicily but was tolerant of his Muslim and Greek Orthodox subjects. His son, Roger II, founded the kingdom of Sicily.
"Roger I," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99. 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0970 in Of Normandy,,France d.~ 1041
- b.~ 1031 d.23 Jun 1101
- b.0860 in Maer,Nord-Trondelag,Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.~ 0893 in Normandy,France d.17 Dec 942 in Picardy,France
- b.~ 0872 in Evreux,Normandy,Fr d.> 0925 in Normandy - Wife of Rollo the Viking
- b.28 Aug 933 in Faecamp Normandy d.20 Nov 996 in Faecamp Normandy
- b.~ 0880 in Senlis,Oise,Picardy,France d.~ 0912
- b.~ 0878 in Bretagne,France d.< 0940
- b.0962 in Normandy,France d.28 Aug 1027 in Fecamp,S-Infr,France
- b.0860 in in Danmark d.0945 in in Gormshoj,Jellinge,Vejle,Danmark
- b.Bet. 885 - 914 in Denmark d.Bet. 955 - 1000 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.0865 d.0935
- b.~ 0946 in ,,Normandy,France d.1031 in ,,,France
- b.~ 0885 in Of,,,Sweden
- b.~ 0905 in ,,,Sweden d.1000 in Y
- b.~ 0886 in Of,Uppsala,Uppsala,Sweden
- b.0990 in Normandie,France d.1057
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Roger I De Hauteville Count Of and Judith were married in a religious ceremony on November 1st, 1068 in <Normandy,France>. They had a daughter named Emma De.
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