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The Connections of Robert Guiscard
Duke of Apulia and Calabria Every person recorded alongside Robert Guiscard in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Robert Guiscard in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Tancred of Hauteville, Fressenda of Hauteville
- Spouses
- Alberada of Buonalbergo, Sikelgaita
- Children
- Bohemond I of Antioch, Emma of Hauteville, Matilde d'Altavilla, Héria de Hauteville, Sibylle de Hauteville, Guy of Hauteville, Robert Scalio, Mabille de Hauteville, Roger Borsa, Olympias
- Siblings
- Mauger of Hauteville, William of the Principate, Geoffrey of Hauteville, Roger I of Sicily, Serlo I of Hauteville, Drogo of Hauteville, William Iron Arm, Humphrey of Hauteville, Humbert de Hauteville
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1016 to 1085.
Medieval era
Al-Ghazali
1058 – December 19, 1111
Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
Medieval era
William the Conqueror
November 8, 1028 – September 9, 1087
King of England from 1066 to 1087, Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 (1028–1087)
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Omar Khayyam
May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Abdul Qadir Gilani
March 17, 1078 – February 14, 1166
Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist (1078–1166)
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
Medieval era
Su Shi
January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101
Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)