Guillaume I "Longsword" 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE

See also

Guillaume 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE's parents: Rollo Ragnvaldsson 1ST DUC DE NORMANDIE (870-931) and Poppa de Normandie de Valois ( - )

Guillaume I "Longsword" 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE (893-943)

Name:	Guillaume I "Longsword" 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE
Sex:	Male
Father:	Rollo Ragnvaldsson 1ST DUC DE NORMANDIE (870-931)
Mother:	Poppa de Normandie de Valois ( - )

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	0893
Death	17 Dec 0943
Title		Duque de Aquitania

Marriage

Spouse	Sprote de Bretagne (Sprota Adela de Senlis) (933- )
Children	Richard I of NORMANDY (933-996)

Individual Note

His nick name was William Longsword. He sought continually to expand his territories either by conquest or by exacting new lands from the French king for the price of homage. In 939 he allied himself with Hugh the Great in the revolt against King Louis IV. Through the mediation of the pope, the war ended, and Louis renewed William's investiture of Normandy. William, however, continued his territorial ambitions, especially northward. He was lured into a conference on an island in the Somme River in 942 and was assassinated on the orders of the count of Flanders, Arnulf I.