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RolloRollo on the Six Dukes statue in Falaise town square.Duke of NormandyReign911–927PredecessorNew creationSuccessorWilliam I Died931
NormandyBurialRouen Cathedral

Rollo (c. 846 – c. 931), baptised Robert and so sometimes numbered Robert I to distinguish him from his descendants, was a Norse nobleman of Norwegian or Danish descent and founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy. His descendants were the Dukes of Normandy.

The name "Rollo" is a Latin translation due to the clerics from the Old Norse name Hrólfr, modern Scandinavian name Rolf (cf. the latinization of Hrólfr into the similar Roluo in the Gesta Danorum), but his popular name was Rou(f) (see Wace's Roman de Rou).^[1] Sometimes his name is turned into the Frankish name Rodolf(us) or Radulf(us) and Raoul, that derives of it.^[2]

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