Hauteville-la-Guichard

Hauteville- la- Guichard is a French municipality with 453 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the department of Manche in Basse-Normandie region. It belongs to the community association Communauté de Communes du Canton de Saint Sauveur Lendelin. The inhabitants are (it) called Hautevillais.

Geography

The Lozon and Venloue flow in the municipality. Hauteville- la- Guichard located 13 km north-east of Coutances and 16 km west of Saint- Lô in the Bocage.

History

Hauteville- la- Guichard is the home of the Norman kings of Sicily. The sons Tancrèdes de Hauteville, who was Seigneur de Hauteville -la- Guichard, subjected to Southern Italy in the 11th century, to found a kingdom.

Demographics

Attractions

The museum Tancrède de Hauteville represents the life of the Hauteville family in Italy and the Norman art in Sicily

Sons and daughters of the town

Robert Guiscard (* 1015, † by July 17, 1085 at Atheras ) was the first son of Tancrède de Hauteville and became Duke of Apulia and Calabria.