Sikelgaita (also Sichelgaita, Sigelgaita, or Gaita) (1040 – 16 April 1090) was a Lombard princess, the daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno and second...
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Robert Guiscard and Sikelgaita welcoming Constantine the african to court...
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Roberto il Guiscardo and Sikelgaita welcoming Constantine the african to court...
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full armour into battle was the Duchess Gaita of Lombardy (also called Sikelgaita), who rode beside her Norman mercenary husband, Robert Guiscard. She was...
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the Norman duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard, and the Lombard noblewoman Sikelgaita. From 1074 until 1078, she was the fiancée of the Byzantine co-emperor...
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repudiated Alberada in favour of a then more advantageous marriage to Sikelgaita, the sister of Gisulf, the Lombard Prince of Salerno. With the annulment...
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youngest son of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, and his second wife Sikelgaita. He may have served his elder half-brother Bohemond and his father in...
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Italy from 1085 until his death. Roger was the son of Robert Guiscard and Sikelgaita, a Lombard noblewoman. His ambitious mother arranged for Roger to succeed...
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Tancred of Hauteville Fressenda Alberada of Buonalbergo Robert Guiscard Sikelgaita William of the Principate Roger I of Sicily Constance of France Bohemond...
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D’Hauteville family and a daughter of Robert Guiscard and his second wife Sikelgaita, a Lombard princess, the daughter of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno. She...
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Alberada (considered illegitimate), and Roger Borsa, Robert's first son by Sikelgaita. In return for supporting Roger Borsa, he got to keep Calabria, which...
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born ca. 1059, died 1111/1112, daughter of Duke Robert Guiscard and of Sikelgaita de Salerno. Following his murder, she remarried to Aimery I of Narbonne...
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strengthen ties and legitimacy, Robert Guiscard also married Lombard Princess Sikelgaita in 1058. Following the death of Guaimar, the Normans were increasingly...
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nobleman (d. 1086) Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (d. 1090) Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman...
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beach. There, according to Comnena, they were rallied by Guiscard's wife, Sikelgaita, described as "like another Pallas, if not a second Athena". In the meantime...
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March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042) April 16 – Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040) May 3 – Adelaide of Rheinfelden,...
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Norman conqueror Robert Guiscard, who had married Guaimar IV's daughter Sikelgaita, besieged Salerno and defeated his brother-in-law Gisulf. In this period...
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ranks of her defense force with women dressed as soldiers. 11th century: Sikelgaita commands troops in her own right. 1047: Akkadevi, an Indian princess,...
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strengthen ties and legitimacy, Robert Guiscard also married Lombard Princess Sikelgaita in 1058. Following the death of Guaimar, the Normans were increasingly...
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AD 32) 665 – Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint 1090 – Sikelgaita, duchess of Apulia (b. c. 1040) 1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)...
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wife (from before 1038) of Atenulf, count of Aquino, while her sister Sikelgaita was the wife of Atenulf's brother Lando. According to Amatus of Montecassino...
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half-sister, likely Matilda, daughter of Robert Guiscard and his second wife Sikelgaita Guy, Duke of Amalfi and Sorrento, half-brother of Bohemond Mala Corona...
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March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042) April 16 – Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040) May 3 – Adelaide of Rheinfelden,...
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his first wife Alberada of Buonalbergo, to marry the Lombard princess Sikelgaita of Salerno. Further synods were held at the castle: Pope Alexander II...
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nobleman (d. 1086) Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (d. 1090) Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman...
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married Rainald, Count of the Marsi Maria, married Atenulf I of Gaeta Sikelgaita of Capua, married Lando of Aquino (brother of Atenulf I of Gaeta) Landulf...
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wife, Bohemond's mother, and had Roger Borsa, his son by his second wife Sikelgaita, succeed him as Duke of Apulia. Bohemond was compensated with Taranto...
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(Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002), p. 78 Patricia Skinner, '‘Halt! Be Men!’: Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy', Gender...
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