Altavilla

== Italian == === Etymology === Calque of French Hauteville (as haute (“high”) + ville (“town”)), after Tancred of Hauteville, also known as Tancredi d'Altavilla, an 11th-century Norman petty lord whose son Roger I of Sicily founded the County of Sicily. === Proper noun === Altavilla m or f by sense a surname from French, equivalent to English Hauteville (historical) Hauteville; a dynasty, begun by Roger I of Sicily, which ruled the County of Sicily (later Kingdom of Sicily) from 1071 until 1194