Tancred of Hauteville [6373] ²⁴

  General Notes:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal07851


http://www.thepeerage.com/p16225.htm#i162242


John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 102. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancred_of_Hauteville


The Hauteville family later was said 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 which village of Hauteville the family drew its name, is hard to identify with certainty, although modern scholarship favours Hauteville-la-Guichard.

His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin.


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

Tancred married Muriella [63978] [MRIN: 551618801].

Tancred next married Fredisenda (Fredesenda) [63783] [MRIN: 2258].

  Marriage Notes:

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.