GUISCARD DeHAUTVILLE - Hauteville,Côtentin,NormandieTACREED DeHAUTVILLE (970-1041) Normandy, France & FREDISTINA (940-) Normandy, France
NOTE: Tancred of Hauteville was an eleventh-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known. His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin, but it is not even certain which of the three villages called Hauteville he held, though Hauteville-la-Guichard is most often cited. Various legends later arose about him which have no supporting contemporary evidence.He had 12 sons by his two wives, and several daughters, almost all of whom left Normandy for southern Italy and acquired some prominence there.
ROGER HAUTVILLE (1031-1101) & ADELAIDE del VASTO (1075-1118)
NOTE: Roger was the youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fredisenda. He arrived in Southern Italy soon after 1055. Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to "Joseph and Benjamin of old," says of Roger: "He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel. He was far-seeing in arranging all his actions, pleasant and merry all with men; strong and brave, and furious in battle." Roger shared the conquest of Calabria with Robert, and in a treaty of 1062 the brothers in dividing the conquest apparently made a kind of "condominium" by which either was to have half of every castle and town in Calabria.Robert now resolved to employ Roger's genius in reducing Sicily, which contained, besides the Muslims, numerous Greek Christians subject to Arab princes who had become all but independent of the sultan of Tunis. In May 1061 the brothers crossed from Reggio and captured Messina. After Palermo had been taken in January 1072, Robert Guiscard, as suzerain, invested Roger as Count of Sicily, but he retained Palermo, half of Messina, and the north-east portion (the Val Demone). Not till 1085, however, was Roger able to undertake a systematic crusade. Roger, the "Great Count of Sicily," died on June 22 1101, in his seventieth year and was buried in S. Trinità of Mileto. Roger's eldest son was a bastard named Jordan, who predeceased him. His second son, Geoffrey, may have been a bastard, but may also have been a son of his first or second wife. Whatever the case, he was a leper with no chance of inheriting. Roger's first marriage took place in 1061, to Judith, daughter of William, Count of Évreux and Hawisa of Échauffour. She died in 1076, leaving all daughters.
ROGER DeHAUTVILLE, II (1095-1154) France & ELVIRA of CASTILE (1097-1135) Italy
NOTE: Roger II (1095-1154), king of Sicily from 1130 to 1154, was the most able ruler in 12th-century Europe. He organized a multiracial, multinational kingdom in which Arabic, Byzantine, Lombard, Jewish, and Norman cultures produced a brilliant cosmopolitan state. Roger II was the son of the "Great Count" Roger of Sicily and Adelaide of Savona, and the nephew of Robert Guiscard, the greatest Norman ruler of Apulia and Sicily. In 1101 Roger's father, who had been 64 when Roger was born, died, leaving his widow and two small sons to rule his turbulent and rebellious county of Sicily. Countess Adelaide managed to retain power in the county, and in 1105 her elder son, Simon, died, leaving Roger as sole heir. By 1112, when Roger II was knighted, he and his mother had made Palermo their capital. Roger, a member of the first generation of the Hauteville family to be born in their southern Italian domains, was raised in the cosmopolitan Arabic, Greek, and Norman culture of Sicily, and his subsequent character reflects that upbringing. Adelaide died in 1118, and the 23-year-old Roger, his county somewhat pacified by the participation of many Norman knights in the First Crusade and in subsequent service in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, began to consider the exploitation of Sicily's strategic position along the Mediterranean trade routes. On the death of his cousin Duke William of Apulia in 1127, Roger claimed the mainland inheritance of his family as his own. In 1128 he was formally invested as Duke of Apulia by Pope Honorius II at Benevento. By 1129 Roger had imposed his rule over the turbulent Norman barons of the mainland and had extracted from them a closely binding oath of personal loyalty to himself. Roger died on Feb. 26, 1154, leaving the kingdom to his son William; and his reputation as the most remarkable layman of the 12th century, to history.
ROGER DeHAUTVILLE, III (1118-1894)
NOTES: Roger III (1118 – 2 or 12 May 1148), duke of Apulia from 1134, was the eldest son of King Roger II of Sicily. Roger makes his first appearance in the chronicles at Melfi in 1129, jointly accepting with his father and his younger brother Tancred the fealty of the rebellious peninsular barons. After his investiture as duke of Apulia in 1134, where he was perhaps put under the tutelage or guardianship of Robert of Selby, he took part in his father's campaigns there, distinguishing himself in the campaigns of 1137 against Ranulf of Alife, whom Pope Innocent II and the Emperor Lothair II had invested as rival duke of Apulia. His first major engagement was the Battle of Rignano on 30 October; a battle in which more experienced warriors, like his father, fled and some, like Duke Sergius VII of Naples, died. Roger's bravery, and success in the first charge, at Rignano solidified his martial reputation early. After Ranulf's death (1139), Apulia was secured, but Innocent and the dispossessed Prince Robert II of Capua began to march on the prince's nominal capital. At Galluccio, Roger ambushed the papal troops with only a thousand knights and captured the pope and his entourage. Three days later, on July 25 at Mignano, Innocent confirmed the elder Roger as king, the younger as duke, and the third son, Alfonso, as prince of Capua—officially severing Robert from his support. Next, Duke Roger took the city of Naples into his possession and made it an integral part of the kingdom, ending the republican government which had continued after Sergius' death. Roger was buried in the chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene next to the old Cathedral of Palermo. He was later transferred to an eponymous chapel now in the barracks of San Giacomo. His successor was his only surviving brother, William, later king.
TANCREED (1171-1194) Rome, Italy
NOTE: Tancred of Sicily - from Liber ad honorem Augusti, 1196 Tancred (died February 20, 1194), was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194. He was an illegitimate son of Roger III, Duke of Apulia, the eldest son of King Roger II, and of Emma, daughter of Achard II, Count of Lecce. He inherited the title "Count of Lecce" from his grandfather, and is consequently often referred to as Tancred of Lecce.
SON TANCREED (1194-) Rome, Italy
GRANDSON TANCREED (1223-) Rome, Italy
AARON FITZ ROGERS (1249-) Rome, Italy
AARON FITZROGERS (1275-) Italy
AARON FITZROGERS (1300-) Italy
JOHN FITZROGERS (1335-) & ELIZABETH FURNEAUX (1321-1385)
JOHN FITZROGERS (1386-1441) & AGNES MORDAUNT (1390-)
THOMAS ROGERS (1408-)
THOMAS JOHN ROGERS (1435-1489) & CATHERINE COURTENAY (1435-1515)
THOMAS JOHN ROGERS (1480-1530) & MARGARET WYATT (1490-)
JOHN ROGERS (1507-1555) & ADRIANA DeWEYDEN (1511-)
NOTES: Going back in history to the 1500s, ed.] Rev. John Rogers, a reformed English clergy [living in England, ed.], led by William Tindall, had prepared for the press much of the Bible translated into English [At that time only landed gentry could own a bible, ed.]. Soon after Queen Mary arrived in London, John was the first martyr. He was burned at the stake at Smithfield in 1555 on Feb. 4 (Encyclopedia Americana). His children were: John, Jr., b.1538; Daniel b.1540; Samuel b.1541; Barnard b.1543. Barnard's children were: Thomas b. 1565; Jiles [Giles], and Samuel. Samuel was Robert Rogers' father, who married Francis Russell. Robert and Francis were parents of Hugh Rogers.The Rogers Family were English. Robert Rogers (b. 1741) and wife Francis Russell, along with other family members, came to America about 1759. Robert and Francis first came to Philadelphia where Hugh Rogers, Revolutionary War soldier, was born, 1761. Robert and Francis moved to Mecklenburg Co.
BERNARD ROGERS (1543-) & AGNES CARTER
THOMAS MATHEW ROGERS (1565-1621) & ALICE COSFORD
NOTE: Thomas Rogers was one of the unfortunate Mayflower passengers who died during the “first sickness at Plymouth” in the winter of 1620/1. Nevertheless, an extensive posterity is attributed to him through at least two sons, Joseph and John.
THOMAS ROGERS (1586-1638) England & ELIZABETH MAKIN (1588-1662)
JOHN ROGERS (1611-1680) England & LUCY IVERSON (1612-1675) Scotland/England
NOTE: John Rogers, ejected vicar of Croglin, Cumberland, and the founder of Congregational churches in Teesdale and Weardale, where he evangelized the lead miners.
JOHN ROGERS (1645-1715) Scotland & AGNES ADENSTONE (1648-1699)
ADUESON ROGERS (1671-1762)
ADUESTON (1701-1791) Virginia & CATHERINE DOSWELL (1794-1943) Virginia
DOSWELL (1736 -1815 ) & ANNE ROGERS
NOTE: Doswell Rogers b. C1736 who migrated from Tyrone County Ireland to Virginia. Doswell Rogers’ son William Rogers was born 10/14/1763 in Halifax Co. Va. Doswell Rogers was on the New River in present day Grayson Co. area on the 1770 list of Tithables for Botetourt Co. Va. Doswell Rogers dies in Hawkins Co. TN in 1809, buried at Windale, Washington Co., Va. Joan Tuft found a 1797 land transfer from Doswell Rogers to the heirs of John Parker listed above in Grayson Co. Va.
