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[APUL321] Seigneur Tancred de Hauteville-le-Guichard m2. Fressenda . [APUL333] Count Roger I of Sicily m1. [EVRE352] Judith d'Evreux . . [APUL343] Matilda di Apulia m3. [VIE2401] Dauphin Guy III de Viennois . [APUL332] Duke Robert Guiscard of Apulia, Calabria & Sicily m2. [SALE332] Sikelgaita di Salerno . . [APUL342] Matilda di Apulia m1. [BARC401] Count Ramon-Berenguer II of Barcelona
33. [APUL321] Tancred, hereditary Seigneur de Hauteville-le-Guichard near Coutances, married 1. Moriella; then 2. Fressenda. A myth arose in the 16th century that both his wives were daughters of DUKE RICHARD I OF NORMANDY. He died 1041, and Fressenda died 1057.
31. [APUL333] Roger (born c.1031, younger son of Tancred & Fressenda), Count of Calabria, and Great Count of Sicily (1071), married 1. (at San Martino d'Agri, November 1061) [EVRE352] Judith (daughter of Count William, see EVREUX COUNTY), died 1076; then 2. (c.1077) Eremburge d'Eu (daughter of Count Robert), died c.1087; then 3. (c.1087) Adelaide di Savoy (daughter of March Count Manfred I). Roger died ar Mileto (22nd June 1101), and afterwards Adelaide married 2. (at Acre, September 1113) King Baldwin I of Jerusalem (annulled 1116).
30. [APUL343] Matilda (born c.1062, daughter of Roger & Judith) married 1. [EUEU341] Count Robert (see HASTINGS (EU) BARONY), repudiated; then 2. (1080) [TOUX341] Marquis Raymond IV de Provence (see TOULOUSE COUNTY), divorced (1088); then 3. [VIE2401] Count Guigues/Guido/Guy III (see VIENNOIS DAUPHINS).
29-32. [APUL339] Robert guiscard [weasel or wily] (born c.1015-20, eldest son of Tancred & Fredesendis) married 1. (c.1050) Aubree/Albrada di Buonalbergo (divorced for consanguinity, 1058); then 2. (at Monte Cassino, 1058) [SALE332] Sikelgaita (born 1025, daughter & heiress of Prince Guaimar IV, see SALERNO PRINCEDOM). He was Count of Apulia (1057-59), DUKE OF APULIA, CALABRIA & SICILY (1059-85), and died of fever in Phiscardo Bay, Cephalonia, while vainly attacking the Ionian Isles (17th July 1085). Sikelgaita died at Salerno (27th July 1090).
31. [APUL342] Matilda (born c.1059, oldest daughter of Robert & Sikelgaita) married 1. (1078) [BARC401] Count Ramon-Berenguer II (see BARCELONA COUNTY), murdered 6th December 1082; then 2. (1085) Vicomte Amaury (son of Vicomte Bernard de Narbonne).
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[APUL341] Bohemond I (born at San Marco Argentano, Calabria, c.1058, eldest son of Robert & Albrada), Prince of Taranto (1088-1111), captured Antioch (1098) and thereby became DUKE OF ANTIOCH (1099-1111), and Prince of Antioch (1099-1111). He married (at Chartres, France, 1106) [CAPE372] Constance de France (daughter of King Philip I of France, see KINGS OF FRANCE (CAPETIAN HOUSE)). He died at Canosa, Apulia, (7th March 1111). Constance died 14th September 1126.
[APUL351] Bohemond II (born at Canossa, Italy, c.1107), Prince of Taranto (1111-28), Prince of Antioch (1126-31) married (Autumn 1126) [RETZ372] Alix/Alice of Jerusalem (daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, see RETHEL COUNTY). He was killed in an ambush near Anazarbus, Cilicia, (February 1130-31). Alix was Regent of Antioch for a short period on behalf of their infant daughter, Constance.
[APUL362] Constance of Antioch (born c.1128, only surviving daughter of Bohemond II), Princess of Antioch, married 1. (April 1130) Raymond de Poitiers (killed in battle near Inab, 28th June 1149); then 2. (c.1153) [CHLL391] Renaud (see CHATILLON COUNTY).