a donation of the town of Cetraro in his honour to Montecassino, which the couple had endowed well throughout their married life. Sikelgaita donated a large amount of silver for her health while she was ill on another occasion. Supposedly, she tried to poison Robert's son Bohemond by his first wife, although the two eventually came to an agreement by which her son Roger Borsa was allowed to succeed Robert in the duchy. With her son she put the Jews of Bari under that city's archbishop. In his Historia Ecclesiastica, Orderic Vitalis states that she had studied and had learned about the use of poisons among the doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. On her death, she was, at her own request, buried in Montecassino. Children With Robert, Sikelgaita had eight children: Mafalda (1059/1060 – 1108), married Raymond Berengar II of Barcelona and then Aimeric I, Viscount of Narbonne Roger Borsa (1060/1061 – 1111) Guy (d. 1107) Robert Scalio (d. 1110) Sibilla (Sybil), married Ebles II, Count of Roucy Mabillia (Mabel) of Apulia, married William de Grandmesnil Heria, married Hugh V, Count of Maine Olympias, betrothed to Konstantios Doukas, son of Michael VII Ducas and Maria Bagrationi, in 1074 Sikelgaita in media Sikelgaita is featured as a non-playable character in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition through the Dawn of the Dukes expansion. She appears in the "Bohemond and the Emperor" scenario as a villain, being Bohemond's wicked stepmother who refuses to help him fight the Normans, with the closing cutscene showing Robert Guiscard's death from illness, with speculation that she poisoned him. Notes Sources Valerie Eads, "Sichelgaita of Salerno: Amazon or Trophy Wife?" Journal of Medieval Military History 3 (2005), pp. 72–87. Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016-1130. Longmans: London, 1967. Loud, Graham A. The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest. 2000. Loud, Graham A. "Coinage, Wealth and Plunder in the Age of Robert Guiscard." The English Historical Review, Vol. 114, No. 458. (Sep., 1999), pp 815–843. Bloch, Herbert. "Monte Cassino, Byzantium, and the West in the Earlier Middle Ages." Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 3. (1946), pp 163–224. Skinner, Patricia. "'Halt! Be Men!': Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender, and the Norman Conquest of Italy". Gender and History, 12:3 (2000). Comnena, Anna. The Alexiad. trans. Elizabeth A. Dawes. London, 1928. Peterson-Gouma, Thalia. Anna Komnene and Her Times. 2000. Garland, Lynda. Byzantine Empresses. 1999. 1040