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Personal data Tancred van Hauteville 

• He was born in the year 980.
• (Levens event) .Source 1

  Tancred of Hauteville (980 – 1041) was an eleventh-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known. His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin.
  
  Various legends arose about Tancred which have no supporting contemporary evidence that has survived the ages.
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  Ancestors
  
  The Hauteville family later was said to descend from Hiallt, a Norseman active in 920, who is credited with founding the village of Hialtus Villa (Hauteville) in the Cotentin of Normandy.[1][2] Tancred is a supposed descendant of Hiallt. From which village of Hauteville the family drew its name, is hard to identify with certainty, although modern scholarship favours Hauteville-la-Guichard.
  Family and descendants
  
  With his two wives, he had twelve sons and several daughters, almost all of whom left Normandy for southern Italy and acquired some prominence there. Based on late testimony of dubious reliability, both of his wives have been said to have been daughters of Duke Richard I of Normandy.[3])
  
  With his first wife, Muriella, he had five sons:
  
  Serlo (stayed in Normandy)
  Beatrix (d. 1101), married first, Armand de Mortain, and second, Roger
  Geoffrey, lord of Hauteville, count of Loritello (d. 1063)
  William Iron Arm, count of Apulia (d. 1046)
  Drogo, count of Apulia (d. 1051)
  Humphrey, count of Apulia (d. 1057)
  
  According to the Italian chronicler of the Norman feats in the south, Amatus of Montecassino, Tancred was a morally upright man, who would not carry on a sinful relationship and being unable also to live out his life in perfect celibacy, he remarried.
  
  With his second wife, Fressenda (or Fredesenda), he had seven more sons and at least one daughter:
  
  Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia (1057), then duke of Apulia and Sicily (d. 1085)
  Mauger, count of the Capitanate (d. 1064)
  William, count of the Principate (d. 1080)
  Aubrey (Alberic or Alvared, Alveredus in Latin, sometimes called Alvred or Alfred) (stayed in Normandy)
  Humbert (Hubert) (stayed in Normandy)
  Tancred (stayed in Normandy)
  Roger de Hauteville, count of Sicily from 1062 (d. 1101)
  Fressenda, who married Richard I (dead in 1078), count of Aversa and prince of Capua
  
  Other Tancred of Hauteville
  
  Tancred's great-grandson, also bearing the same name, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, was a leader in the First Crusade. The line of succession was:
  
  Tancred the elder
  son Robert Guiscard (Duke Robert d'Hauteville)
  granddaughter Emma of Hauteville
  great-grandson Tancred of Hauteville, who became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch

• He died in the year 1041, he was 61 years old.
• A child of Hialt
• This information was last updated on January 28, 2013.

Household of Tancred van Hauteville

He is married to Fressenda van Normandie.

They got married.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Drogo van Apulië  
2. Willem I "Ijzeren arm" van Apulië  
3. Robert Guiscard van Hauteville  1015-1085 
4. Serlon I van Hauteville  1025-????

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