Girard of Buonalbergo

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Girard, lord of Buonalbergo, was a Norman nobleman in the middle of the eleventh century in the Mezzogiorno. He was in the service of the prince of Benevento.{{cite web |title=Gerardo di buonalbergo - Enciclopedia |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gerardo-di-buonalbergo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=5 July 2024 |language=it}}

Despite being chiefly known for giving his paternal aunt Alberada in marriage to the upstart Robert Guiscard, to assure the latter's alliance, he was an important enough baron to send 200 knights in fee as Alberada's dowry{{Cite book |last=Wolf |first=Kenneth Baxter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q04rEAAAQBAJ |title=Making History: The Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-Century Italy |date=2016-11-11 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-0901-5 |language=en}} and still commit many to Humphrey, Count of Apulia and brother of the Guiscard, in the Battle of Civitate of 1053.{{cite web |title=74 Chapter 2: Greater and Lesser Brothers: Establishing a presence in Southern Italy |url=https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/74-part-2-greater-and-lesser-brothers-establishing-a-presence-in-southern-italy/ |publisher=The French History Podcast |date=2022-12-03 |access-date=5 July 2024}} He himself took part in the battle, and remained a steadfast ally of Guiscard throughout numerous rebellions in Apulia. He was also father to Robert of Bounalbergo, a knight of the First Crusade.

When Guiscard left to campaign against the Byzantine Empire in 1081, Girard served as regent and counselor for Guiscard's son Roger Borsa.