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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] Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his panegyric of the ...
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Poppa of Bayeux was the wife more danico of the Viking leader Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword, Gerloc and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy into a great fief of medieval France. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his panegyric of the Norman dukes, describes her as the daughter of a "Count Berengar", the dominant prince of that region, who was ...
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Name and Parentage
Her name is shown as Poppa. Her parentage is disputed -- see Research Notes. Her presumed place of birth would vary according to the theory of her family origin.
872 Birth
She is said to have been born about 872 in Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. This is consistent with a marriage in 890 at age 18.
890 Marriage
Rollo married as his second wife Poppa, about 886. Lady Popie (the Poupee or Poppet), married 890 by Danish rites Rollo, the Dane. Guillaume of Jumièges records that Rollo took "Popa, fille de Bérenger, homme illustre" when he captured Bayeux and "s´unit avec elle, à la manière des Danois". According to Orderic Vitalis, Rollo "stormed and captured Bayeux, slew its count Berengar and took to wife his daughter Poppa." Poppa of Bayeux was the Christian wife or mistress (perhaps more danico) of t...
Ancestry and Parents
The ancestry of Poppa, wife of Rolf the Ganger, 1st Duke of Normandy, seems to have two versions. It is suggested that Poppa was a daughter of Gui, Count of Senlis, and not a daughter of Count Bérenger of Bayeux. This would make Poppa, through her mother, a great granddaughter of King Bernard of Italy (b. 797, d. 818; King of Italy 813 - 817). King Bernard was a grandson of Charlemagne.' Due to the uncertainty of her father, she has been 'disconnected' from Berenger of Bayeux. (7 Aug 2014) Po...
886 Capture
Weis tells us Poppa was captured in 886 and made his "Danish wife." More needs to known about this incident, for Rollo did not participate in the attack on Bayeux until 890, when Poppa's alleged father Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed. I think no one can say if Poppa was the mother of William I or perhaps Gerloc, further it is not clear that Berenger was her father.
Frankish Origin
The Henry Project (Stewart Baldwin), has this: "Poppa was said by Dudo [ii, 16 (pp. 38-9); iii, 36 (p. 57)] to be of Frankish origin, daughter of a certain count Berengar. The Planctus, which does not provide her name, states that she was a Christian, and mother by a pagan father (i.e., Rollo, whose name is also not given) of William, who was born overseas. The accounts given by Dudo and the Planctus are not necessarily contradictory (since Dudo places Rollo overseas in England not long after...
Charles Cawley. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Medieval Lands Database. Normandy Accessed April 5, 2018 jhdStewart Baldwin, F.A.S.G., Henry Project:"Poppa", Cited by Wikipedia: Poppa of Bayeux Accessed April 5, 2018 jhdPhilip Lyndon Reynolds, Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of Marriage during the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods (E.J. Brill, Leiden, New York, 1994), pp. 110-111. Cited b...Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840–1066 (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988), p. 89. Cited by Wikipedia: Poppa of Bayeux Accessed April 5, 2018 jhd- Female
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Rollo ( Norman: Rou, Rolloun; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died in 933) was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France. He emerged as a leading warrior figure among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine after the ...
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Richard I of Normandy. House. Normandy. Father. Rollo, Count of Rouen. Mother. Poppa of Bayeux. William Longsword ( French: Guillaume Longue-Épée, Old Norman: Williame de lon Espee, Latin: Willermus Longa Spata, Old Norse: Vilhjálmr Langaspjót; c. 893 – 17 December 942) was the second ruler of Normandy, from 927 until his assassination in ...
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Brief Life History of Poppa. Poppa de Bayeux was born about 0872, in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France. She married Rollo de Normandie comte de Rouen in 0886. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 11 August 0930, in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France, at the age of 59, and was buried in Rouen, Seine-Maritime ...
