William III Of Sicily
William III of Hauteville (ca. 1186 – ca. 1198) Fitz Rogers, the second son of King Tancred of Lecce and Sibylla of Acerra, was briefly king of Sicily for ten months in 1194. He was overthrown by his great-aunt and her husband, after which he was presumably murdered.
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