Geoffrey of Ragusa was a son of Roger I, Count of Sicily. He was likely illegitimate.[1] It is not possible for this Geoffrey to be the same as his brother, also named Geoffrey, as this other Geoffrey was born by Roger I’s first or second marriage and is recorded as being a leper by Goffredo Malaterra.[2] In 1091, Geoffrey was granted the County of Ragusa by his father.[3]
Children
editGeoffrey married a woman named Rogalia, and had five children with her:[2][3]
- Bartholomew
- Silvester I, Count of Marsico
- Geoffrey
- Roger
- Airolda
Different sources[4][5][6] also claim that from “Geoffrey, one of Tancred’s sons” descends the Guarna / Avarna family. These sources also describe said Geoffrey’s sons as Counts of Marsico. It is thus probable that the sources are mistaken when they talk about a son of Tancred, and that they’re actually referring to this Geoffrey, the Count of Ragusa, as the ancestor of the Avarna family.
Notes
edit- ^ Loud, G. A. (2000). The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-04529-3.
- ^ a b "SICILY". fmg.ac. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
- ^ a b "Wayback Machine". 2011-07-24. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
- ^ Annuario della nobiltà italiana (in Italian). Presso la direzione del Giornale araldico. 1878.
- ^ Summonte, Giovanni Antonio (1748). Historia della cittá e regno di Napoli ... (in Italian). R. Gessari.
- ^ Ebner, Pietro (1979). Economia e società nel Cilento medievale (in Italian). Ed. di Storia e Letteratura.
Sources
edit- Houben, Hubert (translated by Graham A. Loud and Diane Milburn). Roger II of Sicily: Ruler between East and West. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Curtis, Edmund. Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy 1016-1154. G.P. Putnam's Sons: London, 1912.
External links
edit- (in Italian) "La Citta' Di Ragusa" (story)