I discovered de Hautevilles (Tancred, Robert Guiscard, Roger I) in my family tree, and was fascinated by their stories. William the Conqueror was a bastard who did not want his distant cousins around so they became the Vikings in the Mediterranean and some of their children went on the First Crusades and then were rumored to have brought back items to hide in William the Conqueror’s church, the Lincoln Cathedral. If you had several lifetimes, I bet you would write about them. I just want to make the suggestion that I would find that to be very interesting if you were to ever write of them.
John Johnson