Background
Alberada was the daughter of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy who wanted the support of the rising Guiscard at that moment.
Alberada was the daughter of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy who wanted the support of the rising Guiscard at that moment.
As her dowry, she brought Robert Guiscard, two hundred knights. In 1058, after Pope Nicholas II strengthened existing canon law against consanguinity and on that basis, Guiscard repudiated Alberada in favour of a then-more advantageous marriage to Sichelgaita, the sister of Prince Gisulf II of Salerno. Nevertheless, the split was amicable and Alberada showed no later ill will.
She was alive at the death of Bohemond in March 1111 and died very old, probably in July 1122 or thereabouts.
She was buried near the Hauteville family mausoleum in the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Venosa. Her tomb is the only one remaining intact today.