Sichelgaita di Salerno

Events

Date of Birth: about 1040 or 1045.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 1090, probably 27 March.

The date and place are given by Bonnini.

Date of Burial: 16 April.

Place of Burial: Monte Cassino.

The place is given by Bonnini.

Relationships

Father: Guaimario IV, princeps of Salerno.

This relationship is given by Bedina, by Thomas, by Drell, and by Bonnini.

Spouse: Gemma di Capua, daughter of Laidolfo, count.

This relationship is given by Bedina, by Settipani, and by Bonnini.

Spouse: Robert il Guiscardo.

This relationship is given by Bofarull y Mascaró (2:124 ff.), by Cokayne (p. 83), by Norwich (p. 116 ff.), by Drell, and by Bonnini.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Matilde married (1) Ramón Berenguer II “Cap d’Estopes”, count of Barcelona; married (2) Aimery (I), vicomte de Narbonne.

Ruggero “Borsa” (1060 or 1061 - 22 February 1111, duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, married Adela de Flandre.

Mabilla married Guillaume de Grantmesnil.

Roberto.

Guido (died 5 July 1108).

Sibilla married Ebles (II), count of Roucy.

Cecile.

Gaitelgrima married (1) Drogo; married (2) Onfroi.

References

Bedina, Andrea “Guaimario” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 60 (2003).

Bofarull y Mascaró, Próspero de. Los Condes de Barcelona Vindicados, y Cronología y Genealogía de los Reyes de España Considerados Como Soberanos Independientes de Su Marca 2 Volumes. (Barcelona: 1836).

Bonnini, Arianna. "SICHELGAITA" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 92 (2018).

Cawley, Charles. “SICHELGAITA” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Drell, Joanna H. "Family Structure in the Principality of Salerno during the Norman Period, 1077-1154" in Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII (1995).

Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South (1016 - 1130) (Penguin: London, 1992).

Settipani, Christian. Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obsurs: Les princes caucasiens et l’empire du VI^e au IX^e siècle. (De Boccard, 2006).

Thomas, Aurélie. “Le carrière matrimoniale des fils de Tancrède de Hauteville en Italie méridionale: rivalités fraternelles et stratégies concurrentes” in Les Stratégies Matrimoniales (IX^e - XIII^e siècle) (Martin Aurell, ed.). Brepols, 2013.