William III (1190 – 1198) was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194. He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Acerra. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger V, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king, William was crowned king by Pope Celestine III in Palermo. He would be the last of Sicily's Norman kings. His mother Sibylla acted as his regent.

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  • William III (1190 – 1198) was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194. He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Acerra. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger V, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king, William was crowned king by Pope Celestine III in Palermo. He would be the last of Sicily's Norman kings. His mother Sibylla acted as his regent. But the Emperor Henry VI claimed the throne of Sicily in right of his wife Constance, who was William's great-aunt. Even before Tancred's death he had been laying plans to invade, and his resources had been further augmented by the ransom paid by Richard I of England. Sibylla was unable to organize much effective resistance. By the end of October of 1194 Henry had conquered all the mainland parts of the kingdom and crossed over into Sicily. On November 20 Palermo fell. Henry offered Sibylla generous terms: William was to retain the county of Lecce, which had been his father's before he had become king, and was also to receive the Principality of Taranto. With that agreement reached, William, his mother and his sisters watched while Constance and Henry were crowned Queen and King of Sicily on December 25. Four days later, a conspiracy against the new king was uncovered, and many of the leading Sicilian political figures were arrested and sent to prison in Germany, including William and his family. While his mother and sisters were eventually released and lived in obscurity in France, nothing is known for certain of William's subsequent fate. He is said to have been blinded, castrated, or both. Some say he died in captivity a few years later, others that he was released and became a monk. Another theory is that he later returned to Sicily under the alias Tancredi Palamara. Henry's son, Emperor Frederick II (who was also king of Sicily) discovered Tancredi Palamara in Messina and had him executed in 1232. The date generally accepted for his death is 1198. His heir was his sister, whose precise name is unclear but has been given variously as Mary, Elvira, Albiria or Albinia, Blanche (died after 1216). She was married firstly in 1200 to the French Count Walter III of Brienne who was sometimes advanced as Pretender of the Sicilian throne, and was briefly Prince of Taranto in right of his wife. He died in prison in 1205. This sister's son Walter IV of Brienne went to the Holy Land and became Count of Jaffa.
  • Wilhelm III. von Sizilien, Sohn von Tankred von Lecce und Sibylle von Acerra, der schon im Todesjahr des Vaters 1194, noch unmündig, im Dezember 1194 auf die Krone verzichten musste. Der vom Kaiser Heinrich VI. verbannte und geblendete normannische Königssohn wurde seit 1195 auf der Burg Alt-Ems gefangengehalten, wo er 1197 auch starb.
  • Vilém III. Sicilský byl sicilský král z normanské dynastie Hauteville.
  • Guillaume III de Sicile est un prince du royaume normando-sicilien, appartenant à la famille Hauteville.
  • グリエルモ3世（Guglielmo III di Sicilia, 1185年 - 1198年）は、シチリア王国の王。在位は1194年2月から12月で、シュヴァーヴェンの征服前の最後のノルマン王朝の王である。 グリエルモ3世は1185年、タンクレーディ（1139年 - 1194年）とシビッラ（1153年 - 1205年）の間に生まれた。兄ルッジェーロ3世（1175年 - 1194年）は1193年に共同統治王の位に就いていたが、1194年1月にわずか19歳で死亡した。父タンクレーディが55歳で死ぬと、グリエルモ3世は母の摂政の元に9歳で王位を継いだ。 同年、ハインリヒ6世（エンリーコ）は王国征服の準備をして7月に国境を越えた。カンパーニャでは幸運なことに多くの街が戦闘せずに彼の物となった。ナポリさえもすぐに勝者に従い、シチリアを威嚇しつづけた。10月にはハインリヒ6世の軍隊はシチリアに上陸し、メッシーナも報復を恐れて降伏した。 パレルモを12月20日に征服したハインリヒは、グリエルモとシビッラに、降伏するならばレッチェ伯の位を与えるとし、シビッラはあきらめて条件を飲んだ。ハインリヒは12月25日にシチリア王の戴冠を行った。12月28日にシビッラとその息子を陰謀のかどで逮捕し、暫くして彼女の娘たちにも同様にした。 シビッラと娘たちはアルザスで投獄され、ハインリヒの死後1197年に釈放された。グリエルモは、真実に近い説としては、失明させられ去勢されてドイツに追放され、1198年に死ぬまでの13年間幽閉されたという。別の説では、疑わしい話だが1232年まで生き、フリードリヒ2世に発見され処刑されたと言う。
  • Willem III van Sicilië was een jongere zoon van koning Tancred van Sicilië en van Sibylla van Aquino. Hij volgde zijn overleden vader in 1194 op als koning van Sicilië, maar werd kort daarop door zijn oom Hendrik VI van het Heilige Roomse Rijk gevangen genomen en stierf in 1198 in gevangenschap.
  • Вильгельм III – пятый, последний король Сицилийского королевства из династии Отвилей, занимавший престол в течение девяти месяцев (февраль – ноябрь) 1194 года.
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  • William III (1190 – 1198) was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194. He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Acerra. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger V, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king, William was crowned king by Pope Celestine III in Palermo. He would be the last of Sicily's Norman kings. His mother Sibylla acted as his regent.
  • Wilhelm III. von Sizilien, Sohn von Tankred von Lecce und Sibylle von Acerra, der schon im Todesjahr des Vaters 1194, noch unmündig, im Dezember 1194 auf die Krone verzichten musste. Der vom Kaiser Heinrich VI. verbannte und geblendete normannische Königssohn wurde seit 1195 auf der Burg Alt-Ems gefangengehalten, wo er 1197 auch starb.
  • Vilém III. Sicilský byl sicilský král z normanské dynastie Hauteville.
  • Guillaume III de Sicile est un prince du royaume normando-sicilien, appartenant à la famille Hauteville.
  • Willem III van Sicilië was een jongere zoon van koning Tancred van Sicilië en van Sibylla van Aquino. Hij volgde zijn overleden vader in 1194 op als koning van Sicilië, maar werd kort daarop door zijn oom Hendrik VI van het Heilige Roomse Rijk gevangen genomen en stierf in 1198 in gevangenschap.
  • Вильгельм III – пятый, последний король Сицилийского королевства из династии Отвилей, занимавший престол в течение девяти месяцев (февраль – ноябрь) 1194 года.
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  • William III of Sicily
  • Wilhelm III. (Sizilien)
  • Vilém III. Sicilský
  • Guillaume III de Sicile
  • Guglielmo III di Sicilia
  • グリエルモ3世
  • Willem III van Sicilië
  • Вильгельм III (король Сицилии)
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