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Tancred of Hauteville (c. 980 – 1041 [citation needed]) was an 11th-century Norman lord. Little is known about him, and he is best remembered by the achievements of his twelve sons. Various legends arose about Tancred, but they have no supporting contemporary evidence that has survived the ages.
Tancred (c. 1075 – December 5 or December 12, 1112) was an Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade who later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tancred came from the house of Hauteville and was the great-grandson of Norman lord Tancred of Hauteville .
The Hauteville family (Italian: Altavilla, Sicilian: Autaviḍḍa) was a Norman family, originally of petty lords, from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. [ 7 ] The Hautevilles rose to prominence through their part in the Norman conquest of southern Italy .
Robert Guiscard was born around 1015, a son of Tancred of Hauteville and his second wife Fressenda, [7] and the sixth of Tancred's twelve sons. According to the Byzantine historian Anna Komnene, he left Normandy to follow his brothers' footsteps with only five mounted riders and thirty followers on foot. Upon arriving in southern Italy in 1047 ...
From Tancred of Hauteville, a norman petty Lord, to the conquest of the italian peninsula by his sons, to its last representative : Constance of Sicily, his great-granddaughter. аԥсшәа: Arbre généalogique de la brève mais flamboyante Famille Hauteville.
William was a son of Tancred of Hauteville by his first wife Muriella. Goffredo Malaterra records him as being the eldest son, while Romuald Guarna records him as being the fourth, coming after Serlo, Geoffrey and Drogo. Regardless, it is unlikely anyway that William was older than Serlo, as Serlo stayed in Normandy to inherit their father's ...
Tancred's property was an "allodium", signifying absolute ownership, as contrasted with a "fief", lands held subject to the King or another Noble. From the numerous charters and recorded events of his family, it suggests that Tancreds' properties may have stretched, even at this early date, substantially east from the River Seine.
Fressenda's early life is unknown but at some point she married Tancred of Hauteville in Normandy. He was a widower petty lord of Hauteville-la-Guichard in western Normandy. Tancred's first wife was close to him but died when he was still young enough to remarry. [10]