Geoffrey (Hauteville) de Hauteville
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Godefroi (Hauteville) de Hauteville (abt. 996 - 1063)

Godefroi (Geoffrey) "Seigneur de Hauteville-le-Guichard, Conte di Loritello" de Hauteville formerly Hauteville
Born about in Hauteville-la-Guichard, Coutances, Manche, Basse-Normandie, Francemap
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[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 67 in Coutances, Manche, Basse-Normandie, Francemap
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The House of Hauteville crest.
Geoffrey (Hauteville) de Hauteville is a member of the House of Hauteville.

Italian: Casa d'Altavilla, Sicilian: Casa d'Autavilla, French: Maison de Hauteville

European Aristocracy
Geoffrey Hauteville was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Amatus records that the brothers "Mauger, Geoffrey, William and Roger" arrived in Apulia from Normandy, dated to 1054/57.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Tancred d'Hauteville "passed on his whole inheritance to his son Goisfredus [Geoffrey/Godefroi]", advising the others "to seek their living by their strength and wits outside their native land" ...

Malaterra records that the Capitanata had been held by "Gaufridum fratrem suum" before it was granted to Mauger

The Chronicon Breve Normannicum records the death in Apr 1063 of "Gauffredus comes" ...

Sources

  • Amatus III.43, p. 101.
  • Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, V, p. 88, translation Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. II, Book III, pp. 99 and 101.
  • Malaterra, I.15, p. 16
  • Chronicon Breve Nortmannicum, RIS V, p. 278.
  • FMG: 3. GODEFROI de Hauteville (-1063). [1]

MEDIEVAL LANDS: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy & Charles Cawley 2000-2018.




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