(English) Dweller at 1 the Hea- ther-Slope or Heather- Corner [from (with the agential suff. -er) Old English hæð, heath + Old English heal(h] 2 the Heather-Hill [Old English hyll]

Or Hauterill, armorially identified with Hautevill (Robson). This family, which also appears under the form of Hovell and Hauvell, is one of thee most historically interesting in Europe, being a branch of the Norman kings of Naples and Sicily. Hialtt, a Northman viking, c. 920, was its probable founder, whence the fief of Haultville or Hautville, Latinised Altavilla. Third in descent was Tancred, b. c. 980-990, Sire de Hautville, who was in the court of Richard II., whose favour he gained in the hunting field by an exploit narrated by Galfrid de Malaterra. He was leader of ten knights in the Duke’s service (Bouquet, xi.). He m. and bad Drogo, Umfrid, Galfrid, Serlo, Robert, Malger, Alvered, William, Humbert, Tancred, and Roger, who were the most renowned warriors of their age. Serlo was taken into the Duke’s household in reward for a remarkable feat of chivalry, and Geoffry, according to Orderic Vitalis, obtained the paternal fief, when his father went to spend his last days in Italy. The other sons joined the Norman chivalry in Apulia, where William, surnamed ‘Bras de Fer,’ became leader of the Normans and Lord of Ascoli, Drogo Lord of Yenosa, and the other Norman chiefs great barons. In 1043 William was elected by the chiefs their general and Count of Apulia. He was succeeded 1046 by his brother Drogo de Ilautville, Count of Venosa, who was succeeded by Humphry his brother, who dying 1057 was succeeded by his brother Robert de Hauteville, surnamed Guiscard (the Adroit), Duke of Calabria, Apulia, and Sicily. Roger his brother became Count of Sicily, and from him descended the De Hautevilles, kings of Naples and Sicily. Bohemund, Prince of Antioch and Tarento, so renowned in the First Crusade, was son of Robert Guiscard, and from him descended the Kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem. A branch of this royal house became seated in England. Geoffry de Ilautville, who remained in Normandy, was father of Ralph de Hautville or Altaville, who in 1086 held a Barony in Wilts (Domesd.). His descendants were a renowned race of warriors. Sir John de Hautville accompanied Edward I. to Palestine. In 1316 John de Hautville was Lord of Norton-Hawfield or Hautville, Somerset, and 1316-24 Sir Geoffry de H. was M.P. for Somerset, Bucks, and Wilts. He bore sable crusilly argent, a lion rampant argent, being nearly the same as those borne by the Kings of Italy as descendants of the Kings of Cyprus. Hautville’s quoits, two great rocks, which he is said to have used as quoits, are still shown in Somerset, where popular tradition describes him as a giant (Collins, Somerset). The Hautvilles or Hauvilles were seated in Northants and Rutland, t. John; and in Norfolk by grant of Henry II., where they held the dignity of hereditary falconer to the king. The name changed in that county to Auville, Haville, Hovell, and Dunton. The name in Normandy in 1198 had changed to Haville, when Hugh, Hubert, and Walkelin de H. occur (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae).