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Persoonlijke gegevens ROBERT GUISCARD 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1015 in Hauteville, Normandy, France.
• Titel: Duke of Apulia, Calabria & Sicily
• (Relationship) : 29th Great Grandfather.
• (Ancestry) : House of Hauteville.
• (Alternative Name) : Robert D'Hauteville.
• Hij is overleden op 17 juli 1085 in Atheras, Lixouri, Kefalonia, Greece, hij was toen 70 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, Venosa, Italy.
• Een kind van TANCREDE d'HAUTEVILLE en FREDSINDE de NORMANDY

Gezin van ROBERT GUISCARD

(1) Hij is getrouwd met SIKELGAITA di SALERNO.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1057 te Apulia, Calabria, Italy, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Gersent de GUISCARD  1065-????
2. Sibylle d'APULIA  1068-????
3. Roger Borsa d'APULIA  1060-1111 
4. MATILDA d'APULIA  1058-1108 
5. Mabel d'APULIA  1066-????

(2) Hij had een relatie met ALBREDA de BURGUNDY.

Kind(eren):

1. Emma de GUISCARD  ± 1052-± 1126 
2. BOHEMOND I OF ANTIOCH  1058-???? 

Notities over ROBERT GUISCARD

Robert Guiscard (c. 1015 - 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become Count of Apulia and Calabria (1057-1059), and then Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Sicily (1059-1085).

From 999 to 1042 the Normans in Italy, coming first as pilgrims, were mainly mercenaries serving at various times the Byzantines and a number of Lombard nobles. The first of the independent Norman Lords was Rainulf Drengot who established himself in the fortress of Aversa becoming Count of Aversa and Duke of Gaeta.

In 1038 there arrived William Iron-Arm and Drogo, the two eldest sons of Tancred of Hauteville, a petty noble of the Cotentin in Normandy. The two joined in the revolt of the Lombards against Byzantine control of Apulia. By 1040 the Byzantines had lost most of that province. In 1042 Melfi was chosen as the Norman capital, and in September of that year the Normans elected as their count William Iron-Arm, who was succeeded in turn by his brothers Drogo, Comes Normannorum totius Apuliæ e Calabriæ ("the Count of all Normans in Apulia and Calabria"), and Humphrey, who arrived about 1044.

Robert Guiscard was the sixth son of Tancred of Hauteville and eldest by his second wife Fressenda. According to the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena, he left Normandy with only five mounted riders and thirty followers on foot. Upon arriving in Langobardia in 1047, he became the chief of a roving robber-band.

Soon after his succession, probably in 1058, Guiscard separated from his wife Alberada because they were related within the prohibited degrees. Shortly after, he married Sichelgaita, the sister of Gisulf II of Salerno, Guaimar's successor. In return for giving him his sister's hand, Gisulf demanded that Guiscard destroy two castles of his brother William, count of the Principate, which had encroached on Gisulf's territory.

The reformist Papacy, at odds with the Holy Roman Emperor (the Investiture Controversy) and the Roman nobility itself, resolved to recognize the Normans and secure them as allies. Therefore, at the Council of Melfi, on 23 August 1059, Pope Nicholas II invested Guiscard as duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily. Guiscard, now "by the Grace of God and St Peter duke of Apulia and Calabria and, if either aid me, future lord of Sicily", agreed to hold his titles and lands by annual rent of the Holy See and to maintain its cause. In the next twenty years he undertook a series of conquests, winning his Sicilian dukedom.

Married in 1051 to Alberada of Buonalbergo (1032 - aft. July 1122) and had:
Bohemund.
Emma (b. 1052 or after), married to Odo the Good Marquis

Married in 1058 or 1059 to Sichelgaita and had:
Matilda (also Mahalta, Maud, or Maude; 1059 - aft. 1085), married Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona.
Roger Borsa.
Mabile, married to William de Grantmesnil.
Gersent, married to Hugh V of Maine, repudiated.
Robert Scalio.
Guy, Byzantine sebastos.
Sibylla, married to Ebles de Ramerupt, 4th Count of Roucy and had 8 children.
Olympias (renamed Helena), betrothed to Constantine Doukas, son of Michael VII in August 1074, contract broken off in 1078.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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