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Also Known As Guillaume de Hauteville • Guglielmo d’Altavilla • William Iron Arm • Guillaume Bras de Fer • Guglielmo Braccio-di-Ferro
Born France
Died 1046
Title / Office count (1042-1046), Puglia
House / Dynasty House of Hauteville
Notable Family Members brother Humphrey de Hauteville • brother Drogo de Hauteville
Pemulwuy
Australian Aboriginal warrior
Robert
duke of Apulia
Humphrey De Hauteville
Norman mercenary
Drogo de Hauteville
count of Apulia
Bohemond I
prince of Otranto and of Antioch
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury
Norman magnate and soldier
Roger
duke of Apulia
Tancred of Hauteville
regent of Antioch
Roger I
count of Sicily
William I
William I
king of England
Clovis I
Merovingian king
Mausoleum of Theodoric
Theodoric
king of Italy
Roger II, mosaic depicting his coronation by Christ, 12th century; in the church of La Martorana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Roger II
king of Sicily
The founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Tecumseh
Shawnee chief
Saladin
Saladin
Ayyūbid sultan
ʿUmar Tal
Tukulor leader
Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga
Japanese warrior
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief
Yamaga Sokō
Japanese military strategist