NOBLEMAN

Sikelgaita

1040 - 1090

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Sikelgaita (also Sichelgaita, Sigelgaita, or Gaita) (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. Her heritage made her a vital asset to Robert's governance in Southern Italy, legitimizing his reign and that of his successors. Sikelgaita frequently accompanied Robert on campaigns and is noted for leading troops in battle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sikelgaita has received more than 127,324 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sikelgaita is the 660th most popular nobleman (up from 670th in 2019), the 2,321st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,313th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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  • 130k

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  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Sikelgaita ranks 660 out of 1,415. Before her are Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Odo II, Count of Blois, Henutsen, and Sancho García of Castile. After her are John Paul Getty III, John I, Count of Hainaut, Ernest I, Duke of Swabia, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, and Jadwiga of Kalisz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1040, Sikelgaita ranks 13. Before her are Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg, Ivo of Chartres, Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg, Håkan the Red, Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine, and Herman I of Baden. After her are Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou, and Frederick, Margrave of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 1090, Sikelgaita ranks 5. Before her are Michael VII Doukas, Guo Xi, García II of Galicia, and Al-Sarakhsi. After her are Snorri Thorfinnsson, Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, Adelaide of Rheinfelden, Amatus of Montecassino, Robert, Count of Mortain, William of Poitiers, and Adelaide of Normandy.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sikelgaita ranks 2,321 out of 5,161. Before her are Amedeo Amadei (1921), Leonardo Donato (1536), Otto Orseolo (992), Alvise I Mocenigo (1507), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), and Luigi Luzzatti (1841). After her are Il Pordenone (1484), Umberto Bossi (1941), Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat (1609), Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225), Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707), and Angelica Catalani (1780).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Sikelgaita ranks 68. Before her are Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1594), Margaret Paleologa (1510), Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria (1747), Fernando d'Ávalos (1489), Amadeus I, Count of Savoy (1016), and Taddea Visconti (1351). After her are Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549), Rainier II, Lord of Monaco (1325), Adalbert I of Ivrea (880), Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1870), Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme (1872), and Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria (1834).

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