Maud of Apulia (c. 1060 – c. 1112) was a member of the Norman D’Hauteville family and a daughter of

Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard (; Modern ; – 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become count and then duke of Apulia and Calabri ...

and his second wife

Sikelgaita Sikelgaita (also ''Sichelgaita'' or ''Sigelgaita'') (1040 – 16 April 1090) was a Lombard princess, the daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno and second wife of Duke Robert Guiscard of Apulia. She commanded troops in her own right. Life Sh ...

, a Lombard princess, the daughter of Guaimar IV,

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. She was also known as Mahalda, Mahault, Mafalda and Matilda. She was the wife of Ramón Berenguer II, and thus Countess of Barcelona (1078–1082). After her husband’s death, she remarried Aimery I, the Viscount of Narbonne (1086–1108).

Lineage

Maud was the first daughter of

, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, (ca.1020 - 1085) with his second wife

. Her brother was

Roger Borsa Roger Borsa (1060/1061 – 22 February 1111) was the Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria and effective ruler of southern Italy from 1085 until his death. Life Roger was the son of Robert Guiscard and Sikelgaita, a Lombard noblewoman. His ambiti ...

, the effective ruler of southern Italy from 1085 until his death. Her first cousins were

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and

Roger II Roger II ( it, Ruggero II; 22 December 1095 – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily and Africa, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, became Duke of Apulia and Calabria in ...

(sons of

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) who led the effort to consolidate southern Italy and Sicily under Norman (D’Hauteville) rule, which was accomplished in 1130. She was also a half sister of

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, who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade and became

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Countess of Barcelona

The wedding of Ramon Berenguer II with Maud took place at the beginning of 1078. The marriage could have been the result of the policy of

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, who sought support among the Norman nobility of southern Italy against

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. In that same year, Counts Guillermo IV de Tolosa and Ramón de Roerga, stepbrothers of Ramón Berenguer, had also married with daughters of Norman noblemen. On December 5, 1082, Ramón Berenguer II was assassinated by a group of men believed to have conspired with his twin brother,

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, with whom he shared the rule of the county of Barcelona. A few days before, Maud had given birth to a son, the future Ramón Berenguer III. The death of her husband left Maud and her son in a precarious situation, since the infant could not inherit the county until after the death of his uncle. However, he did succeed to that role in 1097, when his Uncle was exiled.

Viscountess of Narbonne

Around 1086, Maud married Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, with whom she had four children: the future

Aimery II Aimeric or Aymeric or Aimery (from '' Haimirich'' or ''Amalric'') is a male given name: * Aimeric de Belenoi (fl. 1215–1242), troubadour * Prince Aymeric of Belgium (born 2005) * Aymeric Jaubert de Barrault (died 1613), mayor of Bordeaux. * A ...

of Narbonne, Guiscardo, Bernardo and Berenguer. She was widowed again in 1105, after which she returned to Barcelona, her first son, Ramón Berenguer III, being already installed as the Count of Barcelona. She died in the

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and was buried in the

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next to her first husband.Sobrequés, note 55, p. 132.

References

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Sources

* Sobrequés, Santiago, Els Grans Comtes de Barcelona, Barcelona, 1961. * Norwich, John Julius, ''The Normans in the South 1016-1130''. Longman: London, 1967. * Norwich, John Julius, ''The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194''. Longman: London, 1970. * Matthew, Donald. ''The Norman Kingdom of Sicily''. Cambridge University Press: London, 1992.

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