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Also Known As Roger Borsa • Ruggiero Borsa
Born c.1060
Died 1111
Title / Office duke (1085-1111), Puglia
House / Dynasty House of Hauteville
Robert
duke of Apulia
William de Hauteville
Norman mercenary
Humphrey De Hauteville
Norman mercenary
Drogo de Hauteville
count of Apulia
William I
William I
king of England
Roger II, mosaic depicting his coronation by Christ, 12th century; in the church of La Martorana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Roger II
king of Sicily
Bohemond I
prince of Otranto and of Antioch
Tancred
king of Sicily
William I
king of Sicily
William II, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Church of Monreale, Sicily
William II
king of Sicily
William FitzOsbern, 1st earl of Hereford
French noble
Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster
Anglo-Norman lord
Hugh de Lacy, 1st lord of Meath
Anglo-Norman justiciar
Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke
Anglo-Norman lord
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury
Norman magnate and soldier
John de Courci
Anglo-Norman conqueror
Robert De Torigni
French historian
Bayeux Tapestry; Odo leading his knights
Odo of Bayeux
Norman noble
Robert II
Robert II
duke of Normandy
Durham Cathedral
William Of Saint Carilef
English bishop