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Personal data Sichelgaita di Salerno 

• She was born between 1040 and 1045.
• She died on July 27, 1090.
• A child of Guaimar IV di Salerno and Gemma van Capua

Household of Sichelgaita di Salerno

She is married to Robert de Hauteville.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Sibylle van Apulia   

Notes about Sichelgaita di Salerno

SICHELGAITA ([1040/45]-Salerno 27 Jul 1090, bur Monte Cassino). The Gestis Ducum Normannorum names "primogenitam filiam Gaumarii principis Salerni…Sichelgaitam" as the wife of "Robertus Wiscardus Normannigena dux Apuliæ"[1048]. The Annals of Romoald in 1060 record the marriage of "Sikelgaitum Guaimerii principis filia" and "Robbertus Guiscardus"[1049]. Malaterra names "filiamque Gaimari Salernitani principis Sigelgaytam" as the second wife of Robert "Guiscard"[1050]. The Chronica Mon. Casinensis names the second wife of Robert as "sororem Salernitani principis…Sikelgaita"[1051]. Her birth date is estimated from her having borne children immediately after her marriage. Her husband became heir to the Principality of Salerno through this marriage, although her husband forestalled his inheritance by conquering Salerno in 1077. The Alexeiad names Robert "Guiscard"'s wife Gaita when recording that "she went on campaign with her husband and when she donned armour she was indeed a formidable sight"[1052]. She successfully laid siege to Trani, while her husband did the same at Taranto, as part of their campaign to suppress the rebellion of autumn 1078. She also fought in the battle to capture Durazzo in 1081/82. The Annals of Romoald record the death in Apr 1090 of "Sikelgaita ducissa mater Rogerii ducis"[1053]. m ([1058/59]) as his second wife, ROBERT "Guiscard" Duke of Apulia, son of TANCRED de Hauteville & his second wife Fressenda --- ([1020]-Phiscardo Bay, Cephalonia 17 Jul 1085, bur Monastery of Santissima Trinità, Venosa).

Bronnen:

[1054] Romoaldi Annales 1077, MGH SS XIX, p. 408.

[1055] William of Apulia, Poem on the Deeds of Robert Guiscard: Mathieu, M. (1963) Guillaume de Pouilles, La Geste de Robert Guiscard (Palermo), G. A. Loud (trans.) (“William of Apulia”), available at <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/william%20ap%201.htm> (30 Dec 2002), Book I, p. 42.

[1056] Gestis Ducum Normannorum, Continuatione Roberti 42, MGH SS XXVI, p. 8.

[1057] Stasser (2008), p. 417, quoting Inguanez, M. ´Diplomi inediti dei Principi Normanni di Capua, conti di Aversa´, Miscellanea Cassinesi 3 (1926), no. 10, p. 25. .

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