[Footnote 39: Giannone, (tom. ii. p. 2) forgets all his
original authors, and rests this princely descent on the
credit of Inveges, an Augustine monk of Palermo in the last
century. They continue the succession of dukes from Rollo
to William II. the Bastard or Conqueror, whom they hold
(communemente si tiene) to be the father of Tancred of
Hauteville; a most strange and stupendous blunder! The sons
of Tancred fought in Apulia, before William II. was three
years old, (A.D. 1037.)]