Adélaïde of Normandy

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Sometimes called Judith. "As for Judith being the same person as Adelais, there is no reason to doubt this: she was recorded as Renaud's wife named Adelais in 1023, well before occurring with her mother's name Judith in 1037 (perhaps the alternative was used to distinguish her from her step-mother-in-law Adelais), and she was still living nearly two decades after Renaud's death." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.]

Adélaïde married Renaud I before 2 Nov 1023. Renaud (son of Otto-William of Burgundy and Ermentrude de Roucy) died in 1057. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William I "The Great" of Burgundy died on 12 Nov 1087.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Aug 1026
• Alternate death: 1027
• Alternate death: 23 Aug 1027

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Duke of Normandy.

Richard married Judith of Brittany about 1000. Judith (daughter of Conan I "Le Tort" and Ermengarde of Anjou) was born in 982; died on 28 Jun 1017; was buried in Bernay Abbey, Bernay, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 16 Jun 1017

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Also called Judith de Rennes. Founded the abbey of Bernay, Normandy.

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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 Gunnor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Rennes before 979. Duke of Brittany.

"[S]lain at the 2nd Battle of Conquereuil near Nantes". [Royal Ancestry]

Conan married Ermengarde of Anjou about 973. Ermengarde (daughter of Geoffroi I Grisegonelle and Adèle of Troyes) died after 992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Stewart Baldwin has pointed out that she was not the same individual as her sister Gerberge who married William IV of Angouleme, despite the contrary claim in several sources including Wikipedia, Ancestral Roots, and Leo van de Pas (the latter presumably deriving from Europa?ische Stammtafeln).

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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Also called Herbastus, Forester of Arque; Arfastus. His actual name is unknown; he appears in history only as the father of several people known to have been siblings.

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Also called Judhaël, Judicael Berenger. A count, but there is no proof that he was a count of Rennes.

According to Stewart Baldwin, both at the Henry Project (citation details below) and in "The Ancestry of Count Conan le Tort of Brittany" (citation details below), he may have been a son of Pascweten who fl. 895-903, who was himself a son of Alain le Grand who d. 907, count of Vannes and duke (sometimes called king) of Brittany.

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Count of Anjou; Count of Châlon.

Also called Geoffrey Greycloak; Gaufridus; Gauzfredus Grisegonella.

Died while besieging the fortress of Marçon.

Geoffroi married Adèle of Troyes about 965. Adèle (daughter of Robert and Adelais) died after 6 Mar 974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adele of Vermandois; Adelaide of Vermandois; Adelaide de Chalons.

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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between Sep 958 and Sep 960

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Count of Anjou. Common ancestor of William the Conqueror and his wife Maud.

Foulques married Gerberge in 937. Gerberge died before Sep 958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 931 and 934
• Alternate death: Aug 967

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Comte de Meaux & Troyes.

Robert married Adelais before 18 Jan 950. Adelais (daughter of Giselbert and Ermengarde) died after 19 Jun 966. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft Aug 967

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Also called Adelaide-Werra de Chalon; Adelaide de Chalon; Werra.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 942

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Viscount of Angers, before 898-931×940; Count of Anjou, 931×940 (or 929)-after 941; Count of Nantes, 907×9-914×9; Viscount of Tours, before 905-before 909; Abbot of Saint-Aubin d'Angers and Saint-Lézin, before 924-after 941.

Also called Fulk the Red; Fulco Rufus.

Foulques married Roscille. Roscille (daughter of Warnerius and Tescende) died after 929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Meaux, Soissons, and Vermandois and lay abbot of Saint-Crépin and Saint-Médard of Soissons. The Henry Project says it is "very probable" that his father was Heribert I.

Heribert married (Unknown daughter of Robert I, King of France). (Unknown (daughter of Robert I, King of France and (Unknown wife or mistress of Robert I, King of France)) died after 931. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alleged by various sources to be named Adele; Liegarde; Hildebrante.

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Count of Chalon, before 924-956. Count of Autun, before 925-956. Count of Troyes, before 950-956. Duke of Burgundy, 952-6.

Giselbert married Ermengarde. Ermengarde died after 11 Dec 942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ermengarde de Dijon.