Rollo Duke Normandy 846-930

Paternal Family Tree: Norman

Descendants Family Tree: Rollo Duke Normandy 846-930

Rollo Duke Normandy was created Duke Normandy.

Rollo Duke Normandy and Poppa Unknown Duchess Normandy were married. She by marriage Duchess Normandy.

Around 846 Rollo Duke Normandy was born.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 876. This year Rolla [aged 30] penetrated Normandy [Map] with his army; and he reigned fifty winters. And this year the army stole into Wareham [Map], a fort of the West-Saxons. The king afterwards made peace with them; and they gave him as hostages those who were worthiest in the army; and swore with oaths on the holy bracelet, which they would not before to any nation, that they would readily go out of his kingdom. Then, under colour of this, their cavalry stole by night into Exeter [Map]. The same year Healfden divided the land of the Northumbrians; so that they became afterwards their harrowers and plowers.

Around 893 [his son] William "Longsword" I Duke Normandy was born to Rollo Duke Normandy [aged 47] and Poppa Unknown Duchess Normandy. He married 935 Luitgarde Vermandois Duchess Normandy, daughter of Herbert II Count Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux and Adela Capet Countess Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux.

Around 912 [his daughter] Gerloc aka Adela Normandy Duchess Aquitaine was born to Rollo Duke Normandy [aged 66] and Poppa Unknown Duchess Normandy. She married 935 William "Towhead" III Duke Aquitaine, son of Ebles "Manzer aka Bastard" III Duke Aquitaine, and had issue.

History of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumieges. Charles the Simple [aged 42], the son of Louis named "Do Nothing," was Rollo's father-in-law. At one time he sent two knights to his daughter Gisela. She kept them with her secretly for a long while, not wishing to reveal them to Rollo. When he learned this, he was angry and considered them spies, and ordered them to be brought out, and when they were brought out, they had their throats cut in the marketplace. When Robert [aged 56], duke of the Franks and Rollo's godfather, heard that the bonds of peace made between the king and the Robert [Rollo] [aged 76], duke of the Northmen, had been destroyed and broken because of the killing of the two knights, he rose against him, and invading the kingdom of the Franks, he was anointed king on the third day before the Kalends of July [29th June 922].

Carolus Simplex, filius Ludovici cognomento Nihil-fecit erat socer Rollonis; quodam tempore misit duos milites Gislæ filiæ suæ. Quos illa apud se occulte diu morari fecit, nolens eos manifestare Rolloni. Quod cum ille cognovisset, iratus et reputans eos exploratores, jussit illos educi, et eductos in foro rerum venalium jugulari. Audiens autem Robertus dux Francorum, patrinus Rollonis, quod pro nece duorum militum, colligatæ pacis inter regem et Robertum ducem Northmannorum vincula soluta diruptaque essent, contra eum rebellavit, et regnum Franciæ invadens, in regem III Kalendas Julii unctus est.

Rollo Duke Normandy 846-930

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Royal Descendants of Rollo Duke Normandy 846-930
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