Paternal Family Tree: Hauteville
In 1062 [his father] Roger I Count of Sicily [aged 31] and Judith d'Evreux were married.
In 1077 [his father] Roger I Count of Sicily [aged 46] and Eremburga Mortain were married. She the daughter of William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall.
In 1087 [his father] Roger I Count of Sicily [aged 56] and [his mother] Adelaida Vasto were married.
On 22nd December 1095 Roger II King Sicily was born to Roger I Count of Sicily [aged 64] and Adelaida Vasto.
On 22nd June 1101 [his father] Roger I Count of Sicily [aged 70] died.
Before 1103 Raymond Rouerge IV Count Toulouse [aged 61] and [his future wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Toulouse. The difference in their ages was 38 years. She the illegitmate daughter of Alfonso "Brave" VI King Leon VI King Castile [aged 61] and Jimena Munoz. He the son of Pons Rouerge Margrave Provence and Almodis La Marche Margrave Provence.
In 1117 Roger II King Sicily [aged 21] and Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 37] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of Alfonso "Brave" VI King Leon VI King Castile and Jimena Munoz.
In 1118 [his son] Roger Hauteville III Duke of Apulia was born to Roger II King Sicily [aged 22] and [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 38].
Before 1119 [his son] Tancred Hauteville was born to Roger II King Sicily [aged 23] and [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 39].
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Around 1121 [his son] Alfonso Hauteville Duke Naples was born to Roger II King Sicily [aged 25] and [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 41].
On 8th March 1126 [his sister-in-law] Urracca "Reckless" Jiménez Queen Consort Aragon and Pamplona [aged 46] died.
In 1130 Roger II King Sicily [aged 34] was appointed II King Sicily. [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 50] by marriage Queen Consort Sicily.
In 1131 [his son] William "Wicked" I King Sicily was born to Roger II King Sicily [aged 35] and [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 51]. He married in or before 1152 his third cousin once removed Margaret Navarre Queen Consort Sicily, daughter of García "Restorer" IV King Navarre and Marguerite Aigle Queen Consort Navarre, and had issue.
In 1135 [his daughter] Unamed Hauteville died.
In 1135 [his daughter] Unamed Hauteville was born to Roger II King Sicily [aged 39] and [his wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 55]. She died aged less than one years old.
In 1138 [his son] Tancred Hauteville [aged 19] died.
On 10th October 1144 [his son] Alfonso Hauteville Duke Naples [aged 23] died.
In 1148 [his step-son] Alphonse Rouerge I Count Toulouse [aged 45] died. His son Raymond [aged 14] succeeded V Count Toulouse.
On 12th May 1148 [his son] Roger Hauteville III Duke of Apulia [aged 30] died.
In 1149 Roger II King Sicily [aged 53] and Sibylla Burgundy Queen Consort Sicily [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Sicily. The difference in their ages was 30 years. She the daughter of Hugh II Duke Burgundy and Felicia Matilda Mayenne Duchess Burgundy.
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In 1150 [his wife] Sibylla Burgundy Queen Consort Sicily [aged 24] died.
In 1151 Roger II King Sicily [aged 55] and Beatrix de Rethel Queen of Sicily [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Sicily. The difference in their ages was 34 years.
In or before 1152 William "Wicked" I King Sicily [aged 20] and Margaret Navarre Queen Consort Sicily [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of García "Restorer" IV King Navarre and Marguerite Aigle Queen Consort Navarre. He the son of Roger II King Sicily [aged 56] and Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [aged 72]. They were third cousin once removed.
On 26th February 1154 Roger II King Sicily [aged 58] died. His son William [aged 23] succeeded I King Sicily. Margaret Navarre Queen Consort Sicily [aged 19] by marriage Queen Consort Sicily.
On 2nd November 1154 [his daughter] Constance Queen Sicily was born to Roger II King Sicily and [his former wife] Beatrix de Rethel Queen of Sicily [aged 24] posthumously. She married 1186 her fourth cousin Henry Hohenstaufen VI Holy Roman Emperor, son of Frederick "Barbarossa" Hohenstaufen I Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrice of Burgundy Holy Roman Empress.
After April 1157 [his former wife] Elvira Alfónsez Jiménez Queen Consort Sicily [deceased] died.
On 30th March 1185 [his former wife] Beatrix de Rethel Queen of Sicily [aged 55] died.
Annals of Six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet. When the inhabitants of that place were troublesome to the pilgrims, and the kings appealed to the justiciars of the king of Sicily1 for redress of the injuries, it happened that certain citizens went out and killed some of the men of the king of England. They also attacked the tents of the nobleman Hugh de Brun and stubbornly persisted in fighting. King Richard, striving to soften their spirits with words and restrain them from violence, accomplished nothing; rather he found them even more obstinate, assailing both him and his men with insults and reproaches. Enraged therefore, he ordered his men everywhere to arm themselves, and he himself, quickly armed with them, rushed against the body of citizens and forced them to flee swiftly into the city. He then besieged the city and, entering it with his men through a certain postern gate, subdued it. After the city had been taken, a very great multitude of the citizens would have been slain had not the king, moved by pity, ordered that they be spared.
Cum autem indigenæ loci illius peregrinis molesti essent, et pro resarciendis injuriis reges alloquerentur justitiarios regis Siciliæ, contigit ut cives quidam egressi homines regis Angliæ perimerent, et nobilis viri Hugonis Brun tentoria invadentes, pertinaciter insisterent dimicando: quorum satagens rex Ricardus animos verbis emollire, et a sævitia compescere, nihil profecit; sed contumaciores experitur, se et suos opprobriis et contumeliis insectantes. Exasperatus itaque suos ubique armari jussit, cum quibus citius et ipse armatus globo civium se ingerens, ipsos in civitatem coegit velociter fugere; ipsamque civitatem obsedit, et per posternam quandam cum suis ingressus subegit. Subacta vero civitate, maxima civium multitudo occubuisset, nisi motus pietate parcere rex jussisset.
Note 1. Tancred, 1138-1194, was the illegitimate son of Roger de Hauteville, Duke of Apulia, and grandson of King Roger II of Sicily. He usurped the throne of Sicily when his first cousin King William "the Good" died in 1189. William's daughter and heir Constance had married Henry, the future Holy Roman Emperor.
Grandfather: Tancred of Hauteville
father: Roger I Count of Sicily
mother: Adelaida Vasto