Tancred (de Hauteville)
Part of The Encyclopedia of Southern Italy.
Tancred (de Hauteville): b. c AD 990; d. AD 1041. A minor baron in Normandy, he is best-known as the father of several sons who played important roles in the Norman conquest of southern Italy and the foundation of the kingdom of Sicily. Some sources state that his two wives were both daughters of Duke Richard I of Normandy, but this appears to have been a 16th Century fiction, perhaps designed to give the family line nobler roots.
The Children of Tancred de Hauteville
By his first wife Muriel (or Muriella, Moriella, Moriellam):
- William Iron Arm, count of Apulia (1042-46)
- Drogo, count of Apulia (1046-51)
- Humphrey, count of Apulia (1051-57)
- Geoffrey, count of the Capitanate (d.1071)
- Serlo I, heir to the family estates in Normandy.
By his second wife Fressenda (or Fedesenda, Fresendis):
- Robert Guiscard, count of Apulia (1057-59) and duke of Apulia (1059-85)
- Mauger, count of the Capitanate (1056-59)
- William, count of the Principate (1056-80)
- Aubrey (Alberic, Alberad, Alvered, Alvred, or Alfred), remained in Normandy
- Hubert (Humbert), remained in Normandy
- Tancred, remained in Normandy
- Roger I “Bosso”, Great Count of Sicily (1071-1101)
- Fressenda, wife of Richard, count of Aversa & prince of Capua