Robert Scalio

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Robert de Hauteville (born early 1060s?), [1] also called Robert Scalio [1] or Robert Guiscard II, [2] [3] was a younger son of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, and his second wife, Sikelgaita. The sources do not agree concerning whether he was older [1] or younger than his brother Guy. [4] Romuald of Salerno lists him before Guy. [5]

Robert accompanied his elder brother Roger Borsa in 1086, when the latter went to Palermo to confirm his possessions in the County of Sicily. He signed as a witness the document issued by Roger granting to the abbey of La Cava the monastery of the Holy Spirit in Bari. [3] He is last recorded in Sicily in 1096. [2]

John Tuzson argues that Robert later moved to Hungary in the following of his cousin, Queen Felicia, the wife of King Coloman of Hungary. [5] Felicia, unnamed, is described as "a lady of the highest nobility, daughter of King Robert Guiscard of Apulia" in the 14th-century Chronicon Pictum . [6] It is universally recognized that her father could not have been Robert Guiscard. It has generally been concluded that he was in fact Prince Robert I of Capua, but Tuzson argues that he was Count Roger I of Sicily, Robert Guiscard's brother. [5] He connects the younger Robert Guiscard and the queen's entourage to the Hungarian kindred of Oliver and Ratold, which the Chronicon claims originated in Caserta. [2] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stavros G. Georgiou (2022), "Guy de Hauteville, a Norman Noble in the Service of Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)", Aiônos: Miscellanea di Studi Storici, 22: 73–97, doi:10.53136/97912218082784 , at 73–74.
  2. 1 2 3 John Tuzson (2002), István II (1116–1131): A Chapter in Medieval Hungarian History, Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, pp. 22–23.
  3. 1 2 Ferdinand Chalandon (1907), Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile, vol. 1, Paris: A. Picard, pp. 289–290 (calling him "Robert II Guiscard").
  4. ↑ Ferdinand Chalandon (1907), Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile, vol. 1, Paris: A. Picard, p. 283.
  5. 1 2 3 John Tuzson (2002), István II (1116–1131): A Chapter in Medieval Hungarian History, Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, p. 84.
  6. ↑ János M. Bak; László Veszprémy, eds. (2018), The Illuminated Chronicle: Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 286–287.
  7. ↑ János M. Bak; László Veszprémy, eds. (2018), The Illuminated Chronicle: Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 88–89.
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