Click to expand/collapse all notes Click to expand/collapse all other details

Male Duke of Apulia Roger Borsa Guiscard Click to view Duke of Apulia Roger Borsa Guiscard in the family tree

Roger was born in 1058 in Apulia, Cala, Italy.1   Roger's father was Duke of Apulia Robert (The Resourceful) Guiscard I and his mother was Contessa di Salerno Sikelgaita.  His paternal grandparents were Seigneur Tancred Guiscard de Hauteville III and Fredesende of Normandy; his maternal grandparents were Prince Guaimar of Salerno IV and Porpora di Tabellaria. He had three brothers and five sisters, named Guy, Robert, Olympias, Sybille, Mafalda, Mathilde, Mabillia and Heria.  He was the third oldest of the nine children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Tancred, Bohemond and Emma.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I14931

Page last modified