Tancred de Hauteville

Events

Date of Birth: about 980 or 990.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimate date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 1041.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Moriella.

This relationship is given by Weller and by Thomas.

Spouse: Fressenda.

This relationship is given by Norwich (p. 39 f.), by Weller, and by Thomas.

Children (by Moriella):

(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.)

Serlo.

Béatrix (died 1101) married (1) Armand de Mortain; married (2) Roger.

Godefroi (died 1063), count of Loritello, married (1) unknown; married (2) Theodora, daughter of Pandolf di Salerno.

William "Iron Arm" (died 1046), count of Apulia, married a daughter of Guido di Salerno, count of Conza.

Drogo (died 10 August 1051), count of Apulia, married (1) Altruda; married (2) Gaitelgrima di Salerno.

Humphrey (died 1057), count of Apulia, married Gaitelgrima di Salerno.

Children (by Fressenda):

Robert (about 1020 - 17 July 1085), duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, married (1) Alberada; married (2) Sichelgaita di Salerno.

Mauger (died September 1064).

Fredesende (born about 1025) married Richard, prince of Capua, count of Aversa.

William (died 1080), count of the Principate, married a daughter of Guido di Salerno, count of Conza. [Drell names her Maria, daughter of Duke Guido of Sorrento.]

Aubrey.

Hubert (died 1071).

Tancred.

Frumentin.

Roger (about 1031 - 22 June 1101), count of Sicily, married (1) Judith d’Évreux; married (2) Eremburge de Mortain; married (3) Adelaida del Vasto.

References

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

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).

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.

Weller, T. Hauteville genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.