Godefroi de Hauteville
Godefroi of Hauteville is one of the many sons of Tancrède de Hauteville, small noble Norman of the Cotentin. According to the sources, although not being the oldest son of Tancrède (death in 1041), it is designated as the heir to the stronghold of Hauteville, in the Norman duchy. It seems however that he leaves later the heritage to another family member is goes in Italy following the example his older brothers, certainly after the of Civitate of June 1053 battles, and even probably after 1056, because he does not receive anything of his older brother Onfroi, count d' Apulie which, in 1056 confers the Capitanate on Mauger and the Principat with Guillaume (or Guillerm ), two of his half-brothers. Godefroi ends up inheriting Capitanate to the premature death of Mauger in 1057 (with the death of Mauger, Guillaume inherits Capitanate, but it reassigns it following Godefroi). It intervenes in 1059 as count de Capitanate, takes part in the conquests Normans in Italy and assistance his brother Robert Guiscard in subduing one rebellion.
He dies in 1063.
Married first once in Normandy, it has this unknown wife with less three wire which follow it to Italy and Sicily: Robert of Loritello, Raoul of Catanzaro and Guillaume of Tiriolo. In Italy, it takes a new wife of high ranking: Théodora of Capaccio, niece of the prince lombard Gaimar IV of Salerno. It gives him at least wire, Tancrède de Hauteville, mentioned in 1103 and 1104.
It seems that one of its sons, Raoul de Catanzaro, takes part in the battles of Hastings in 1066, before obtaining a baronnie in the Wiltshire (England) before 1086. It is at the origin of the English branch of Hauteville.
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