Mauger of Hauteville (also

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''Maugerio'') was a younger (probably the second) son of

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by his second wife, Fressenda. He travelled to the

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with his brother

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and his elder half-brother Geoffrey around 1053, though some sources indicate him coming later, c.1056. He soon distinguished himself and was invested with the county of the

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soon after his arrival (either 1053 or 1057) by

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, his half brother and

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, but he did not long survive to hold it. According to

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, he died in 1054, though other chroniclers have him dying in 1057 or as late as 1060, after assisting his elder full brother

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, Humphrey's successor, in an expedition against the new army of the

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, sent to recover Langobardia. Whenever he died, his fief went to William, who passed it to Geoffrey out of fraternal affection (according to Malaterra).

Sources

*Chalandon, Ferdinand. ''Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile''.

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, 1907. * Norwich, John Julius. ''The Normans in the South 1016-1130''.

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