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Hiallt (also Hialt and Healthene[1]) was a norseman active around the year 920. He is credited with founding the village of Hauteville (same as Hauteville-la-Guichard?[verification needed]), in Latin Hialtus Villa, in the Contentin region of Normandy[2][3].

Hiallt is considered an ancestor of Tancred of Hauteville, and thus the founder of the House of Hauteville, which bears his name. This cannot be verified with certainty[4]. Tancred's sons later led the Norman Invasion of southern Italy and they and their descendants ruled powerful states in the Mediterranean region, like the Duchy of Apulia and the Kingdom of Sicily.

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Somerset was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hill, James S. The place-names of Somerset. St. Stephen's printing works, 1914, Princeton University. Page 256
  3. ^ Revue de l'Avranchin et du pays de Granville, Volume 31, Issue 174, Parts 3-4. Société d'archéologie, de littérature, sciences et arts d'Avranches, Mortain, Granville. the University of Michigan.
  4. ^ Stanley Ferber, Islam and the Medieval West, vol. 2 (1979), p. 46: "the sons of Tancred of Hauteville-le-Guichard, a petty landowner in Normandy..."
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