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Rollo was the great-great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror, the progenitor of House of Normandy in England; however, Charles III and the British Royal Family are not direct male-line descendants of Rollo, as the House of Normandy ended with the death of Henry I.
William the Conqueror [4] and his heirs down through 1135 were members of this dynasty. After that it was disputed between William's grandchildren, Matilda, whose husband Geoffrey [5] was the founder of the House of Plantagenet, and Stephen of the House of Blois (or Blesevin dynasty). [6] The Norman counts of Rouen were: Rollo, 911–927
William the Conqueror [a] (c. 1028 [1] – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, [2] [b] was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo , he was Duke of Normandy (as William II ) [ 3 ] from 1035 onward.
Family tree of the early dukes of Normandy and Norman kings of England. In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western France. The duchy arose out of a grant of land to the Viking leader Rollo by the French king Charles the Simple in 911. In 924 and again in 933, Normandy was expanded by royal ...
Family tree of the Rulers of Normandy, from the Counts ou Rouen to the Dukes of Normandy, to the annexation of the Duchy by the French Crown. French Arbre généalogique des Souverains de la Normandie, des Comtes de Rouen aux Ducs de Normandie, jusqu'à l'annexion du Duché par la Couronne de France.
William the Conqueror's governor during his minority. Anquetil of Harcourt, son of Turquetil and of Anceline of Montfort, was the first seigneur of Harcourt known under this title. In 1066, he accompanied William the Conqueror on his conquest of England, obtaining lands in England. His possessions stretched along both sides of the English ...
William succeeded Rollo (who continued to live about five more years) in 927 [17] and, early in his reign, in 933, faced a rebellion from Normans [18] who felt he had become too Gallicised. [19] According to Orderic Vitalis, the leader of the rebellion was Riouf of Evreux, [19] [20] [21] who besieged William in Rouen. Sallying forth, William ...
Poppa of Bayeux (French: [pɔpa d(ə) bɛjø]; born c. 880) was the wife more danico [2] [3] of the Viking leader Rollo.She was the mother of William I Longsword, Gerloc [4] [5] and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy into a great fief of medieval France. [6]