In 1058, after Pope Nicholas II strengthened existing canon law against consanguinity and on that basis, Guiscard repudiated Alberada in favour of a then-more advantageous marriage to Sichelgaita, the sister of Prince Gisulf II of Salerno. She bore Guiscard two children: a daughter, Emma, mother of Tancred, Prince of Galilee, and a son, Prince Bohemond I of Antioch. As her dowry, she brought Robert Guiscard, two hundred knights. M (, divorced on grounds of consanguinity ) as his first wife, ROBERT 'Guiscard' Duke of Apulia, son of TANCRED de Hauteville & his second wife Fressenda - ( -Phiscardo Bay, Cephalonia, bur Monastery of Santissima Trinità, Venosa).Īlberada of Buonalbergo (aka Alberada De Macon, Alberada of Burgundy) was the first wife of Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia (1059–1085), whom she married in 1051 or 1052, when he was still just a robber baron in Calabria. Casinensis names the first wife of Robert as 'Alveradam amitam suam ', recording the couple's separation on grounds of consanguinity. Malaterra names 'Alberadam' as the first wife of Robert 'Guiscard', recording that they were separated on grounds of consanguinity, although the precise relationship between husband and wife is not known.

Amatus records that 'Gerard who was called Buonalbergo' came to Robert 'Guiscard' who was visiting his brother in Apulia, proposed his marriage to 'my aunt, my father´s sister…Alberada' (specifying that Robert´s brother Drogo at first opposed the marriage) and agreed to serve him in Calabria, dated to from the context.

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