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The Hauteville Ancestry The American Genealogist (1976) Vo/.52, pp.23-26 23 THE HAUTEVILLE ANCESTRY BY CHARLES F. H. EVANS, F.S.A. The late Mr G. Andrews Moriarty in his as yet unpublished The Plantagenet Ancestry devotes folios 71 to 74 to the Haute­ ville family and their relations the Princes of Capua, and the Dukes of Naples and Spoleto; and folio 74 gives an expanded version of his account of the ancestry of Guy, Duke of Spo­ leto, Lay Abbot of Mettlach (d. 860), that appeared in NEHGR 107 (1953) 282-4. However, these particular tables rely hea­ vily on W. H. Turton [The Plantagenet Ancestry (1928)]; E. Ru­ bel (Ahnentafel RUbel-Blass (1939)], and E. Winkhaus [Ahnen zu Karl dem Grossen und Widukind (1950-53)]; and as all their ac­ counts of the Lombard and Norman rulers of this period in Ita­ ly have been largely superseded by the writings of Augusto Sanfelice di Monteforte [La prima famiglia di Guaimario IV, Principe di Salerno (l936);Richerche storico-critico-genea­ logiche (1947-62], which are not readily available, here follows an attempt partly based on Sanfelice to revise and amplify Moriarty's pedigrees, and suggest further lines of research, without in any way following up every ancestral line as far as possible as Moriarty does. According to Moriarty (fo. 71) Tancred d'Hauteville mar­ ried twice, and by one of his wives, both of unstated origin, was the father of Robert Guiscard, who in turn married twice. By his first wife Alberada, also of uncertain origin, Robert Guiscard was the father of Bohemond of Antioch, whose de­ scendants are well-known [see F. L. Weis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists (4th ed. 1969), Line 103]; and by his sec­ ond wife Sikelgaita of Salerno Robert Guiscard is presumed by Moriarty to have had a daughter Matilda, wife of Raymond Berenger II of Barcelona and ancestress of the Counts of Barcelona and Provence, and so of Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III (Weis, op.cit. Line 111). Now Szabolcs de Vajay has shown in a pamphlet entirely devoted to the subject that the above Matilda was certainly the eldest of the six children of Robert Guiscard by his sec­ ond wife Sikelgaita [Mahaut de Pouille, comtesse de Barce­ lone et vicomtesse de Narbonne, dans le contexte social de son temps (1971)]. Matilda married first in 1078 Raymond Berenger II, Count of Barcelona, who was assassinated in 1082 leaving an only child Raymond Berenger III; and second­ ly in 1085 Aymeri I, Viscount of Narbonne, who died on cru­ sade in 1105 and by whom she had five children including a son Guiscard named after his famous grandfather. Matilda died in 1108. Sybille, the youngest child of Robert Guiscard by Sikel­ gaita, married Eble II de Roucy. Turton (op.cit. fo. 184) gives Ade, wife of Gaucher II de Chatillon (d. 1148), as Ade de Roucy, a granddaughter of Eble II and Sybille de Roucy; and Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV, was cer­ tainly descended from Gaucher II and Ade de Chatillon. How­ ever, W. M. Newman [Les seigneurs de Nesle en Picardie 1 (1971) 190-2] has examined the problem of the identity of 24 THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST this Ade and concluded that she was not a Roucy at all, but a Pierrefonds. Thus this royal descent from Robert Guiscard collapses. Turton (fo. 207) provides yet another descent for Elizabeth Woodville from Robert Guiscard through the Ibelin family, alleging that the Ibelins were descended from Mamilie de Roucy, wrongly identified by Turton but in fact a daughter of Eble II and Sybille de Roucy. But this pedigree too is erroneous. Mamilie de Roucy married first Hugh du Puiset, Viscount of Chartres and Count of Jaffa, and secondly Albert de Namur; but her only known child was Hugh II du Puiset, Count of Jaffa, who left no proved descendants (J. L. LaMonte, "The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusades" [Speculum 17 (1942) 100-18]; Count W. H. Rudt de Collenberg, "Les premiers Ibe­ lin" [Le Moyen Age 69 (1965) 465-74]. In 1059, at the Council of Melfi, Pope Nicholas II had recognized Robert Guiscard as Duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, territory which within the twenty years previously the sons of Tancred d'Hauteville had captured from the Byzan­ tines. but the actual origins of the family of Hauteville were undistinguished. Tancred, of Hauteville-le-Guichard in Normandy, had two wives, Muriel and Fresende, both bastard daughters of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, died 1027 (de Vajay, op.cit.). By his first wife Muriel Tancred had five sons and a daughter; and by his second wife Fresende he had six sons and two daughters, including Robert Guiscard and Roger I, Count of Sicily, Tan­ cred died in 1041. Although Moriarty only assigns Robert Guiscard from this family as a Plantagenet ancestor, it has been plausibly sug­ gested by Count W. H. Rudt de Collenberg [Maximilla et Ma­ thildae reginae (1969)] that Roger of Sicily, by his third marriage in 1089 to Adelaide del Vasto-Saluzzo, had a daugh­ ter Matilda, who married first in 1095 Conrad, King of Italy (1074-1101), and secondly Guigues, Count of Albon (d. 1125). This is the Matilda who is the subject of an article by Mor­ iarty [NEHGR 111 (1957) 265-7], and who was unquestionably an ancestress of the Plantagenets through two of her daugh­ ters, Matilda, Countess of Maurienne, and Gersende, Countess of Forcalquier (Moriarty, P.A. fo. 102). Adelaide del Vasto was a granddaughter of Teto, Margrave of Vasto, and his wife Berta, daughter of Ulric Manfred, Margrave of Turin, by Berta d'Este [Moriarty, P.A. fos. 60-2; c. w. Previte-Orton, The early history of the house of Savoy (1912), 197, 212]. Sanfelice [Richerche 1 (1947) 83 f.] shows that Alberada, first wife of Robert Guiscard, whose marriage was annulled for consanguinity, must have been a daughter of Renaud I, Count of Burgundy (d. 1057), by his wife Adelaide Judith, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, by his first wife Judith of Brittany. Thus Robert Guiscard and his first wife Alberada were both descended from Richard II of Normandy. Alberada married secondly Roger de Pomerada. Renaud I was a descendant of Charlemagne [E. Brandenburg, Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen (1935), no. IX, 48], and son of Otto Wil­ liam, Count of Burgundy, by his first wife Ermentrude de Roucy, daughter of Renaud, Count of Roucy, by Alberada of THE HAUTEVILLE ANCESTRY 25 Lorraine. Thus Alberada, wife of Robert Guiscard, was named after her ancestress. Richard II, Duke of Normandy, was the son of Richard I, son of William I, son of Rollo, Count of Normandy, by his wife Poppa. Bernard, Count of Senlis, is described by the chroniclers as avunculus of William I; and so Poppa was very probably a sister of Bernard. If so the Dukes of Nor­ mandy had a descent from Charlemagne, as Bernard was certain­ ly a grandson of the Carolingian Pippin, son of Bernard, King of Italy [Moriarty, P.A., fo. 226; J. Dhondt, Etudes sur la naissance des principautes territoriales en France (1948), 119-20, 122; K. F. Werner, "Die Nachkornrnen Karls des Grossen" in Karl der Grosse 4 (1967), no. VI, 2]. Otto William, Count of Macon and Burgundy (d. 1026), was the son of Adalbert of Ivrea, King of Italy (d. 971) [Werner, no. VII,47], by Gerberge of Macon, who subsequently married as his first wife Eudes Henry, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1002). The problem of the identity of Gerberge has been discussed and elucidated by de Vajay ["A propos de la guerre de Bour­ gogne" in Annales de Bourgogne 34 (1962) 153-69]. Gerberge was the daughter of Otto, Count of Macon, son of Letaud II, Count of Macon (d. 965), by his first wife Ermengeard, daugh­ ter of Manasses I the Old, Count of Chalon-sur-Saone (d. 918), by Ermengeard de Vienne (Moriarty, P.A., fos. 10, 255). There are useful pedigrees of these families to be found in Abbe E. Jarry, Formation territoriale de la Bourgogne (1948). Ermengeard de Vienne was the daughter of Boso, Count of Vienne, King of Burgundy (d. 887) [Moriarty, P.A., fos. 19, 51, 234), presumably by his wife Ermengeard (d. 898) [Werner, no. V, 10], daughter of the Emperor Louis II. Sikelgaita (1025-1090), who married Robert Guiscard in 1058 as his second wife, was a daughter of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno and Capua (1010-1052), by his first wife Porpora di Tabellaria (d. 1036), daughter of Laidolfo, Count of Ta­ bellaria, by Aloara, daughter of Truppualdo, Count of San Massimo. Laidolfo was son of Alfano, Count of Tabellaria (d. 1037), by Porpora di Arnalfi, daughter of Leone di A­ malfi, son of Sergius I, Duke of Arnalfi (d. 966/7), proba­ bly by the daughter of a Count John. Sergius I was the de­ scendant of a Count Muscus, and his pedigree has been estab­ lished by Adolf Hofmeister ["Starnrnreihe der HerzOge von A­ malfi aus dem Hause des Muscus comes" in Byzantinish-neu­ griechische Jahrbucher 4 (1923) 328-39] . Guaimar IV at one time ruled over not only Salerno and Capua but the duchies of Arnalfi, Sorrento, Gaeta, Apulia and Calabria as well. He was a lineal descendant of the Margraves of Tuscany, as follows. Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno (assassinated 1052), was the son of Guaimar III, Prince of Salerno (d. 1031), by his cousin Gaitelgrima, daughter of Pandolfo, Prince of Benevento and Capua (d. 1014), son of Landolfo III, Prince of Benevento (d.
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