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Birth:           970 Normandy

Notes
first marriage was to Fredesende's sister Muriella of Normandy, dtr of Richard I Duke 
of Normandy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancred_of_Hauteville
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.

Various legends arose about Tancred which have no supporting contemporary 
evidence that has survived the ages.
Ancestors[edit]

The Hauteville family was said by later traditions to descend from Hiallt, a Norseman 
active in 920, who is credited with founding the village of Hialtus Villa (Hauteville) in 
the Cotentin of Normandy.[1][2] Tancred is a supposed descendant of Hiallt, from 
whom the village of Hauteville and the family drew their name. This cannot be 
identified with certainty, and some modern scholarship favours Hauteville-la-Guichard 
over Hauteville in Cotentin.[3]

Family and descendants[edit]

With his two wives, he had twelve sons and several daughters, almost all of whom left 
Normandy for Southern Italy and acquired some prominence there.

With his first wife, Muriella, he had five sons and one daughter:
Serlo (stayed in Normandy)
Beatrix (d. 1101), married first to Armand de Mortain, son of Robert, Count of Eu, and 
second to a Roger (family unknown)
Geoffrey, lord of Hauteville, count of Loritello (d. 1063)
William Iron Arm, count of Apulia and Calabria (d. 1046)
Drogo, count of Apulia and Calabria (d. 1051)
Humphrey, count of Apulia and Calabria (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 being unable also to live out his life in perfect celibacy, he remarried.


 


 Cat-of-arms of Hauteville
With his second wife, Fressenda (or Fredesenda),[4] he had seven more sons and at 
least one daughter:
Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia and Calabria (1057), then duke of 
Apulia, Calabria and Sicily (d. 1085)[4]
Mauger, (d. 1064), count of the Capitanate (part of the Province of Foggia, within 
Apulia)
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)[4]
Fressenda, who married Richard I (dead in 1078), count of Aversa and prince of 
Capua

Other Tancred of Hauteville[edit]

Tancred's great-grandson, also bearing the same name, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, 
was a leader in the First Crusade. The line of succession was:
Tancred the elder
son Robert Guiscard (Duke Robert d'Hauteville)
granddaughter Emma of Hauteville
great-grandson Tancred of Hauteville, who became Prince of Galilee and regent of the 
Principality of Antioch


Marriage To OF NORMANDY Fredesende (Fredestina) (ABT  995 - 1057)
    m.  

Notes
his second

Parents
____ Richard II "the Good" (23 Aug  963 - 28 Aug 1026)
OF EMVERMEU Poppa (Papia) (ABT  970 - AFT 1024)

Children by OF NORMANDY Fredesende (Fredestina) ABT  995 - 1057
DE HAUTEVILLE Robert I "Guiscard" (1015 - 17 Jul 1085)
OF SICILY Roger I (ABT 1031 - 22 Jun 1101)

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