Guillaume Ier DE NORMANDIE

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FrenchBorn Guillaume Ier DE NORMANDIE

Second ruler of Normandy

Born on January 5, 900 in Rouen , France

Died on December 22, 948 in Picquigny , France

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William was born 'overseas' to the Viking Rollo, while he was still a pagan, and his Christian wife Poppa of Bayeux. Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his panegyric of the Norman dukes describes Poppa as the daughter of a count Beranger, the dominant prince of that region. In the 11th century Annales Rouennaises (Annals of Rouen), she is called the daughter of Guy, Count of Senlis, otherwise unknown to history.[b] Despite the uncertainty of her parentage she was undoubtedly a member of the Frankish aristocracy. According to the William's planctus, he was baptized a Christian probably at the same time as ...   William was born 'overseas' to the Viking Rollo, while he was still a pagan, and his Christian wife Poppa of Bayeux. Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his panegyric of the Norman dukes describes Poppa as the daughter of a count Beranger, the dominant prince of that region. In the 11th century Annales Rouennaises (Annals of Rouen), she is called the daughter of Guy, Count of Senlis, otherwise unknown to history.[b] Despite the uncertainty of her parentage she was undoubtedly a member of the Frankish aristocracy. According to the William's planctus, he was baptized a Christian probably at the same time as his father, which Orderic Vitalis stated was in 912 and by Franco, Archbishop of Rouen



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