NORMANDY, Rollo I Robert the Dane

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy, a region of France.
• Name: Gaange Rolf
• Name: Rollo of Normandy

Notes:

The offspring of Rollo and his followers became known as the Normans. After the Norman conquest of England and their conquest of southern Italy and Sicily over the following two centuries, their descendants came to rule Norman England (the House of Normandy), the Kingdom of Sicily (the Kings of Sicily) as well as the Principality of Antioch from the 10th to 12th century, leaving behind an enduring legacy in the historical developments of Europe and the Near East.

Rollo is the great-great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror, or William I of England. Through William, he is one of the ancestors of the present-day British royal family, as well as an ancestor of all current European monarchs and a great many claimants to abolished European thrones.

Rollo married NORMANDY, Poppa de Bayeux de Senlis de in 909. Poppa was born in 872 in Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; died in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Castle St Cler, , Normandy, France

1. NORMANDY, Guillaume William I "Longsword" was born on 30 Jul 893 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died in 17 Dec 942 murdered by followers of Arnulf while a in Picquigny, Somme, Picardie, France.
2. NORMANDY, Adele Gerloc of was born in 912 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 14 Oct 962 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France.