Robert de Hauteville (born early 1060s?),, at 73–74. also called Robert Scalio or Robert Guiscard II,.
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(calling him "Robert II Guiscard"). was a younger son of

Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard ( , ; – 17 July 1085), also referred to as Robert de Hauteville, was a Normans, Norman adventurer remembered for his Norman conquest of southern Italy, conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century. Robert was born ...

, Duke of Apulia, and his second wife,

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. The sources do not agree concerning whether he was older or younger than his brother Guy.
p. 283
Romuald of Salerno lists him before Guy.. Robert accompanied his elder brother

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in 1086, when the latter went to

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to confirm his possessions in the

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. He signed as a witness the document issued by Roger granting to the abbey of La Cava the monastery of the Holy Spirit in

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. He is last recorded in Sicily in 1096. John Tuzson argues that Robert later moved to Hungary in the following of his cousin, Queen Felicia, the wife of King

Coloman of Hungary Coloman the Learned, also the Book-Lover or the Bookish (; ; ; 10703February 1116), was King of Hungary from 1095 and King of Croatia from 1097 until his death. Because Coloman and his younger brother Álmos were underage when their father Gé ...

. Felicia, unnamed, is described as "a lady of the highest nobility, daughter of King Robert Guiscard of Apulia" in the 14th-century ''

Chronicon Pictum The ''Chronicon Pictum'' or ''Illuminated Chronicle'' (, , , also referred to as the ''Illustrated Chronicle'', ''Chronica Hungarorum'', ''Chronicon Hungarie Pictum'', ''Chronica Picta'' or ''Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum'') is a medieval illust ...

''. It is universally recognized that her father could not have been Robert Guiscard. It has generally been concluded that he was in fact Prince Robert I of Capua, but Tuzson argues that he was Count

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, Robert Guiscard's brother. He connects the younger Robert Guiscard and the queen's entourage to the Hungarian kindred of Oliver and Ratold, which the ''Chronicon'' claims originated in

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References

{{reflist 1060s births Italo-Normans Year of birth uncertain Children of Robert Guiscard