Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Robert Guiscard
Abt 1015 - 1085 (~ 70 years)-
Name Robert Guiscard Birth Abt 1015 near Coutances, Normandy, France 
[1] Gender Male Death 17 Jul 1085 Lixorion, Kefallinia, Ionian Islands, Greece [1] 
Siblings1 sibling Person ID I9474 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 6 Dec 2023
Father Tancred of Hauteville, b. Abt 970 d. Abt 1041 (Age ~ 71 years) Mother Fressenda d. 1057 Family ID F6533 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Alberade di Buonalberga d. Mar 1111 Divorce 1058 [1] Children + 1. Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch; Prince of Tarente, b. 1058 d. 3 Mar 1111 (Age 53 years) Family ID F8907 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 May 2018
Family 2 Sigelgaita di Salerno, b. Abt 1040 d. 1090 (Age ~ 50 years) Marriage 1058 [1] Children + 1. Sibylle de Hauteville + 2. Mahalta of Apulia, b. Abt 1059 d. 19 Sep 1108 (Age ~ 49 years) Family ID F1843 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jun 2019
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Notes - "Robert Guiscard (c.?1015 - 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer conspicuous in the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become Count of Apulia and Calabria (1057-1059), and then Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Sicily (1059-1085). His sobriquet, in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered 'the Resourceful', 'the Cunning', 'the Wily', 'the Fox', or 'the Weasel'. In Italian sources he is often Roberto il Guiscardo or Roberto d'Altavilla (from Robert de Hauteville)." [Wikipedia]
The Byzantine historian Anna Comnena described Robert Guiscard:
"This Robert was Norman by birth, of obscure origins, with an overbearing character and a thoroughly villainous mind; he was a brave fighter, very cunning in his assaults on the wealth and power of great men; in achieving his aims absolutely inexorable, diverting criticism by incontrovertible argument. He was a man of immense stature, surpassing even the biggest men; he had a ruddy complexion, fair hair, broad shoulders, eyes that all but shot out sparks of fire. In a well-built man one looks for breadth here and slimness there; in him all was admirably well-proportioned and elegant...Homer remarked of Achilles that when he shouted his hearers had the impression of a multitude in uproar, but Robert's bellow, so they say, put tens of thousands to flight." [The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, trans. E. R. A. Sewter (London: Penguin, 1969), p. 54.]
- "Robert Guiscard (c.?1015 - 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer conspicuous in the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become Count of Apulia and Calabria (1057-1059), and then Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Sicily (1059-1085). His sobriquet, in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered 'the Resourceful', 'the Cunning', 'the Wily', 'the Fox', or 'the Weasel'. In Italian sources he is often Roberto il Guiscardo or Roberto d'Altavilla (from Robert de Hauteville)." [Wikipedia]
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Sources - [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.
- [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.