Berenger COUNT OF BAYEUX ( - )

1. Berenger o. B. de Senlis COUNT OF BAYEUX has few details recorded about him.

 

(Pepin II Quentin, Count of Vermandois, Senlis et Peronne??).

 

Berenger o. B. de Senlis COUNT OF BAYEUX had the following children:

 

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Poppa de Normandie de Valois ( - )

Second Generation

2. Poppa de Normandie de Valois, daughter of Berenger o. B. de Senlis COUNT OF BAYEUX, married Rollo Ragnvaldsson 1ST DUC DE NORMANDIE.

 

Rollo Ragnvaldsson 1ST DUC DE NORMANDIE, son of Ragnvald 1 Eysteinsson, Earl of More (c. 847-c. 890) and Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir (c. 850- ), was born in 0870 in Norway. He died in 0931. He and Poppa de Normandie de Valois had the following children:

 

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

Third Generation

3. Guillaume I "Longsword" 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE, son of Rollo Ragnvaldsson 1ST DUC DE NORMANDIE and Poppa de Normandie de Valois, was born in 0893. He had the title 'Duque de Aquitania'. He died on 17 December 0943. He married Sprote de Bretagne (Sprota Adela de Senlis).

 

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.

 

Sprote de Bretagne (Sprota Adela de Senlis) was born on 28 August 0933 in Fecamp, Normandy. She and Guillaume I "Longsword" 2ND DUC DE NORMANDIE had the following children:

 

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Richard I of NORMANDY (933-996). Richard was born on 28 August 0933 in Fecamp. He was born on [Julian] 28 August 0933 in Fecamp, France. He had the title '3rd Duke of Normandy'. He died on 20 November 0996 in Fecamp. He died on [Julian] 20 November 0996 in Fecamp. He was buried in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France.