Family of Tancred + and Fredistina + of HAUTEVILLE

Husband:	Tancred + (980-1041)
Wife:	Fredistina + of HAUTEVILLE (992-1057)
Children:	Robert I + (1008-1085)
	Mauger of HAUTEVILLE (1009-1046)
	Humphrey of HAUTEVILLE (1010-1057)
	Tancred of HAUTEVILLE (1015-1052)
	Aubrey of HAUTEVILLE (1017-1071)
	Roger + of HAUTEVILLE (1031-1101)

Husband: Tancred +

Name:	Tancred +
Sex:	Male
Father:	Gerard + TANCRED (930-1001)
Mother:	-
Birth	0980	Normandy, France
Occupation		Lord of Hauteville
Title		Lord of Hauteville
Death	1041 (age 60-61)

Wife: Fredistina + of HAUTEVILLE

Name:	Fredistina + of HAUTEVILLE
Sex:	Female
Father:	Richard I * + (933-996)
Mother:	Papia + (977- )
Birth	0992	Normandy, France
Death	1057 (age 64-65)

Child 1: Robert I +

Child 2: Mauger of HAUTEVILLE

Name:	Mauger of HAUTEVILLE
Sex:	Male
Birth	1009	Hauteville, Normandy, France
Death	1046 (age 36-37)	Rome, Italy

Child 3: Humphrey of HAUTEVILLE

Child 4: Tancred of HAUTEVILLE

Child 5: Aubrey of HAUTEVILLE

Name:	Aubrey of HAUTEVILLE
Sex:	Male
Birth	1017
Death	1071 (age 53-54)	Rome, Italy

Child 6: Roger + of HAUTEVILLE

Name:	Roger + of HAUTEVILLE
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Bosso or The Great Count
Spouse 1:	unknown ( - )
Spouse 2:	Judith (c. 1033-1076)
Spouse 3:	Eremberge + of MORTAIN (1040-1088)
Spouse 4:	Adelaide of VASTO (c. 1060- )
Birth	1031	Hauteville, Normandy, France
Occupation		Count of Sicily
Title	frm 1071 to 1101 (age 39-70)	Count of Siciliy
Death	22 Jun 1101 (age 69-70)	Mileto, Calabria, Italy

Note on Husband: Tancred +

Tancred of Hauteville (980-1041) was an 11th-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known. His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin, but it is not even certain which of the three villages called Hauteville he held, though Hauteville-la-Guichard is most often cited. Various legends later arose about him which have no supporting contemporary evidence.

 

He had 12 sons by his two wives (both of them have been said to be daughters of Duke Richard I of Normandy, but no primary sources back up this claim[1]) and several daughters, almost all of whom left Normandy for southern Italy and acquired some prominence there.

 

By his first wife Muriella he had five sons:

 

Serlo (stayed in Normandy)

Beatrix (d. 1101), married first Armand de Mortain and second Roger

Geoffrey, lord of Hauteville, count of Loritello (d. 1063)

William Iron Arm, count of Apulia (d. 1046)

Drogo, count of Apulia (d. 1051)

Humphrey, count of Apulia (d. 1057)

According to the Italian chronicler of the Norman feats in the south, Amatus of Montecassino, Tancred was a morally upright man who would not carry on a sinful relationship and so remarried, being unable also to live out his life in perfect celibacy. By his second wife Fressenda (or Fredesenda) he had seven sons and at least one daughter:

 

Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia (1057), then duke of Apulia and Sicily (d. 1085)

Mauger, count of the Capitanate (d. 1064)

William, count of the Principate (d. 1080)

Aubrey (Alberic or Alvared, Alveredus in Latin; sometimes called Alvred or Alfred) (stayed in Normandy)

Humbert (Hubert) (stayed in Normandy)

Tancred (stayed in Normandy)

Roger de Hauteville, count of Sicily from 1062 (d. 1101)

Fressenda, who married Richard I (dead in 1078), count of Aversa and prince of Capua