Fredesendis (fl. 1000)

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Fredesendis (fl. 1000)

Frankish noblewoman. Flourished around 1000; second wife of Tancred of Hauteville; children: Robert Guiscard (d. 1085, duke of Apulia and Calabria, count of Sicily, r. 1057–1085); William, count of the Principate (d. 1080); Roger the Great, count of Sicily (r. 1072–1101); Fredesendis (fl. 1050); and others.

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