Ebles I de Ventadour

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Vicomte de Ventadour. Living 1020.

Family/Spouse: Marie de Limoges. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ebles II de Ventadour was buried in Montecassino Abbey, Italy.

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Vicomte de Comborn.

Archambaud married Rotberge de Rochechouart. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Vicomte de Turenne. Living 989.

Ebles married Béatrix of Normandy before 1001. Béatrix (daughter of Richard I, Leader of the Normans of Rouen and (Unknown mistress or mistresses of Richard I)) died on 18 Jan 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Vicomte de Rochechouart. Murdered.

Aymeric married Ermesinde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "the Stumbler." Vicomte de Comborn, Ventadour et Turenne. Living 951.

Archambaud married Sulpicie de Turenne before Dec 951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 970.

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Also known as Richard the Fearless; Richard Sans Peur. Called in retrospect "Duke of Normandy," a title he did not use.

From The Henry Project: "Richard is described by such a wide range of words (comes, marchio, consul, princeps, dux) by various sources (sometimes of dubious authority) that it would be difficult to argue that there is a specific 'title' by which he should be called."

Richard married (Unknown mistress or mistresses of Richard I). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 1010. Called "Ostofrancus" for fighting Germans in the east of France.

Aymeric married Ave. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 1018. French-language Wikipedia calls her the "only daughter of William, Count of Angouleme," but we have found nothing to substantiate this.

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Seigneur de Champagnat.

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Vicomte de Turenne. Natural son of his father. Living 930.

Bernard married Déda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Dec 942, Picquigny, Picardy, France

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William "Longsword".

Says The Henry Project about his birth "overseas": "[I].e., not on the European mainland, and therefore possibly in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, or one of the islands held by Vikings (Orkneys, Hebrides, Man, etc.), all plausible places for the son of a Viking to be born."

Assassinated, possibly by or at the instigation of Arnulf/Arnulph/Arnoul "The Old", Count of Flanders.

Guillaume married Sprota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sporta; Sprota de Senlis; Espriota de Bretagne; Sprota de St. Lis (most of these are probably apocryphal).

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Vicomte de Limoges. Living 963.

Geraud married Rothilde de Brosse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 970.

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Vicomte des Echelles, Comte du Quercy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 929
• Alternate death: 931

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Also called Robert (baptized); Robert I Duke of Normandy (retrospectively); Hrolfr (Old Norse) (disputed); Rouf (his fellow Normans); Rodulf, Rodulfus, Radulf, Radulfus (Frankish); Raoul (French); Rolf Ragnvaldsson (various modern genealogists and peerage-indexers).

Rollo married Poppa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Poppa of Bayeux.

"A wife or mistress of Rollo of Normandy, and mother of Rollo's son and successor William 'Longsword', her name is reported only by the often unreliable Dudo and by sources depending on him ... The only certain fact that is known about her comes from the contemporary (or nearly so) Planctus of her son William, which states (without naming her) that she was a Christian, and that her son William was born overseas." [The Henry Project, citation details below]

Peter Stewart, 25 Jun 2010, on soc.genealogy.medieval:

I'm inclined to believe that William's Christian mother named "Poppa" was invented by Dudo—it's very curious that this name is otherwise unexampled for a Frankish noblewoman of the time, but had recently been made famous by Widukind of Corvey as the name of the cleric who had baptised Harald I and converted the Danes (Rollo's people according to Dudo). "Poppa" was said to have been taken at the capture of Bayeux, a daughter of Count Brenger: however, the latter's son (Judical) Brenger was later one of the foresworn leaders of the Breton rebellion against William with no suggestion that he was the Norman ruler's uncle.

Further, according to Dudo the sister of William was described as a "girl" ca 936, but her father Rollo had been purportedly free to marry a Carolingian princess named Gisla as part of the settlement when the Normans were converted to Christianity, so that if Adela/Gerloc had been born after that time she and William could not have had the same mother unless she was never regarded as Rollo's canonical wife. Yet, according to Dudo, William was born to Poppa at Rouen, where the Normans were settled after the conversion, and the stain of bastardy is not in any way imputed to him.

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Vicomte de Limoges. Living 963.

Hildegaire married Tetrisca. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Vicomte de Brosse.

Adémar married Melisendis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]