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==Marriage and issue== [[File:Coat of Arms of Roger I of Sicily.svg|thumb|105px|Coat of arms of Roger I of Sicily]] Roger had three known illegitimate sons: * [[Jordan of Hauteville|Jordan]] (c. 1060 – 1092), commander, predeceased his father * A certain William, legitimacy unclear, maybe son by first or second marriage * [[Geoffrey, Count of Ragusa|Geoffrey]] (died c. 1120), Count of [[Ragusa, Sicily|Ragusa]]. Legitimacy unclear, maybe son by first or second marriage. He had no chance of inheriting as he was affected by [[leprosy]].{{efn|Goffredo Malaterra calls it "Morbus Elephantinus".}} Roger's first marriage took place in 1062, to [[Judith d'Évreux]].{{sfn|Brown|2003|p=110}} The marriage produced only daughters: * Flandina, first married to Hugh of [[Jarzé]], first count of [[Paternò]]. When he died after 1075, she remarried to [[Henry del Vasto]], second count of Paternò and brother of [[Adelaide del Vasto]], Roger's third wife. * Matilda (c. 1062 – before 1094), first married to [[Robert, Count of Eu|Robert of Aceto, count of Eu]] and lord of [[Hastings]]. She was repudiated by her husband, and remarried in 1080 to [[Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse|Raymond IV of Toulouse]].{{sfn|Jansen|Drell|Andrews|2009|p=428}} * Adelisa (died before 1096), married in 1083 to [[Henry, Count of Monte Sant'Angelo]] * Emma (c. 1070 – 1120), briefly engaged to [[Philip I of France]]; married, firstly, [[William VI, Count of Auvergne|William VI of Auvergne]] and, secondly, [[Rudolf, Count of Montescaglioso|Rudolf of Montescaglioso]]. In 1077, a year after Judith's death, Roger married a second time, to [[Eremburga of Mortain]].{{sfn|Houben|2002|p=24}} Their children were: * [[Mauger, Count of Troina|Mauger]] (c. 1080 – c. 1100), Count of [[Troina]] * Muriel (died 1119), married [[de Lucy|Josbert de Lucy]] * Constance (1082 – after 1135), married [[Conrad II of Italy]], son of [[Emperor Henry IV]] * [[Felicia of Sicily|Felicia]] (died 1102), married [[Coloman, King of Hungary]] * Judith (died 1136), married [[Robert I, Count of Conversano|Robert I of Bassunvilla]] * Sybilla, married Robert, son of [[Robert I of Burgundy]]. In 1087 Eremburga died, and Roger remarried to [[Adelaide del Vasto]], a sister of his son-in-law Henry del Vasto. Roger and Adelaide's children were: * Matilda (died before 1094), married [[Ranulf II, Count of Alife]] and [[pretender]] to the [[County of Apulia and Calabria|Duchy of Apulia]] * [[Simon of Sicily|Simon]] (1093–1105), [[List of Sicilian monarchs|Count of Sicily]] * [[Roger II of Sicily|Roger II]] (1095–1154), [[King of Sicily]] * Maximilla, also called Matilda (died after 1137), married Ildebrandino VI [[Aldobrandeschi]] family. One of Roger's daughters, named Matilda, married [[Guigues III of Albon|Guigues III, Count of Albon]].
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