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Name Duke of Normandy, Robert I "The Magnificent", 28G Grandfather
Birth Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
Death 1035, Notre Dame, Rouen, France
Burial Notre Dame, Rouen, France
Spouses:
1 Herleve (also known as Arlette) DE FALAISE, 28G Grandmother
Children: *William I "The Conqueror" (1028-1087)
Notes for Duke of Normandy, Robert I "The Magnificent"
219The Frankish King, Charles the Simple (879-929), a great-great grandson of Charlemagne after 20 or 30 years recognized that the Norsemen were there to stay. Rollo agreed to accept Christianity and acknowledged the szerainty of Charles, and in 912 he was made Duke of Normandy and formally granted the fief upon which he and his Norsement had been settled for years. ...
He was banished from Norway to the Hebrides about 876. In 890 he participated in Viking attack on Bayeux where Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed and his daughter Poppa captured and taken in 886 by Rollo as his Danish wife. Under the Treaty of St. Claire in 911 he received the Duchy of Normandy from Charles III the Simple."
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