Boniface del Vasto

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Boniface del Vasto was the margrave of Western Liguria from 1084 to 1125, the son and successor of Otto. He was of the Aleramici family, which also furnished the margraves of Montferrat. His capital was Savona.

Boniface had several daughters and sons by his wife Agnes, the daughter of Count Hugh of Vermandois. His daughter Adelaide married first Roger I of Sicily and second Baldwin I of Jerusalem. Two of his other daughters married Roger's sons from previous relationships, Jordan, Count of Syracuse, and Geoffrey, Count of Ragusa (who may have died before the marriage actually took place). Boniface' sons founded the lines of the rules of Saluzzo, Busca, Lancia, Ceva, and Savona. His son Henry became a lord in Sicily. According to documents of uncertain validity, Boniface's daughter Sibylla del Vasto was the wife of William VI of Montpellier.