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Individual:
1 NAME Rollo or Ganger Rolf of /Normandy/
2 SOUR S033320
3 DATA
4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT. 870
2 PLAC ,Maer, Norway
2 SOUR S033320
3 DATA
4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001
1 DEAT
2 PLAC ,Normandy, France
2 SOUR S033320
3 DATA
4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001
[De La Pole.FTW]
Sources: A. Roots 121E, 243A; Kraentzler 1160, 1443, 1453; RC 162, 166;Coe;
Guizot; The Normans and Their Myth (chart) by R.H.C. Davis; Pfafman; WEDStokes;
A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones; Ashley; Norr, p59.
He established the Northmen in France and was the first Duke ofNormandy.
Count of Rouen. Conquered Normandy. Also known as Hrolf (Gongu-Hrolfr),
Rollon, Ganger and Granger Rolf.
WED says the area near "Mora, Norway, was the domain of the jarl ofMore,
whose son Hrolf, with his followers...in 911 settled in the districtlater
known as Normandy."
Roots: Ganger Rolf, "the Viking (or Rollo), banished from Norway tothe
Hebrides ca. 876; 890 participated in Viking attack on Bayeux, whereCount
Berenger of Bayeux was killed, and his daughter Poppa taken, 886, byRollo (now
called Count of Rouen) as his "Danish" wife. Under Treaty of St. Clair,911,
received the Duchy of Normandy from Charles III, "the Simple."
Davis: Rollo, ruler of Normandy from 911-931. The dukes of Normandyfree
married with non-Scandinavians. "Rollo is said to have married thedaughter of
the Frankish king and to have had his son by the daughter of a Frankishcount.
That son, William, married the daughter of a Frankish count and had hisson,
Richard, by a Breton. None of the dukes' wives came from Scandinavia or
England, and by the first half of the 11th century their familyconnections
were typically French." An early historian, Dudo, said Rollo was Danish.
Ashley: Count Rolllo or Rolf the Viking., died 993?
Norr: Rollo or Rolf, 1st duke of Normandy 912-917-(927), born about856. He
was of the same Danish origin as the ancestors of the English which his
descendants conquered in 1066.
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