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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. In 1130, Roger II of Hauteville, was made the first King of Sicily. His male-line ...
Hauteville-la-Guichard (French pronunciation: [otvil la ɡiʃaʁ]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France (population: 425 in 2006).. It is thought to be the original stronghold of the Hauteville family who made their fortunes in southern Italy and Sicily as the Norman kings of Sicily, beginning with the modest Norman seigneur Tancred of Hauteville, who is ...
Robert Guiscard (/ ɡ iː ˈ s k ɑːr / ghee-SKAR, [1] Modern French: [ʁɔbɛʁ ɡiskaʁ]; c. 1015 – 17 July 1085), also referred to as Robert de Hauteville, was a Norman adventurer remembered for his conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
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. Little is known about him, and he is best remembered by the achievements of his twelve sons.
The House of Hauteville completed their conquest of Sicily in 1091. In 1130, the County of Sicily and the County of Apulia , ruled by different branches of the House of Hauteville, merged as the Kingdom of Sicily, and Count Roger II was crowned king by Antipope Anacletus II .
According to the genealogy presented by David Hughes, in his book “The British Chronicles”, Hiallt was the son of Ivor, son of Magnus, son of Olaf, son of Harald (or Arailt), son of Ivar (or Hingmar), son of Sveide, son of Ogier the Dane and his third wife Astritha, daughter of Gudfred of Denmark. [1]
Coats of arms of the Duchy of Normandy and the House of Hauteville, depicted in Agostino Inveges' Annali della felice città di Palermo (1651). A similar but more articulate thesis was made by the Sicilian historian Agostino Inveges, in the third volume of his Annali della felice città di Palermo, prima sedia, corona del Re, e Capo del Regno di Sicilia, a work that was printed between 1649 ...
Geoffrey of Hauteville (died between 1059 and 1071) was a Norman military leader and Count of the Capitanate, son of Tancred of Hauteville by his first wife Muriella. Birth order [ edit ]