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<h2 id="name">Name</h2> <p>The <i><a href="/facts/Heimskringla/zLtIqMQX">Heimskringla</a></i> (written in the 13th century) records that Rolf the Ganger went to Normandy and ruled it, so Rollo is generally presumed to be a <a href="/facts/Romanization/a4fl8fee">Latinisation</a> of the Old Norse name <a href="/facts/Hrolf/WDEjCEeT">Hrólfr</a>, a theory that is supported by the rendition of Hrólfr as <i>Roluo</i> in the <i><a href="/facts/Gesta_Danorum/zCHy0ERH">Gesta Danorum</a></i> by Saxo Grammaticus. It is also sometimes suggested that Rollo may be a Latinised version of another Norse name, <i>Hrollaugr</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>The 10th-century French historian <a href="/facts/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin/hzJe0teq">Dudo</a> in his <i>Historia Normannorum</i> records that Rollo took the <a href="/facts/Baptismal_name/2YIAN43f">baptismal name</a> Robert.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> A variant spelling, <i>Rou</i>, is used in the 12th-century <a href="/facts/Norman_French/13RATD7c">Norman French</a> verse chronicle <i><a href="/facts/Roman_de_Rou/ooH6EdjK">Roman de Rou</a></i>, which was compiled by <a href="/facts/Wace/VQ40R6U8">Wace</a> and commissioned by King <a href="/facts/Henry_II_of_England/ryWkqNRB">Henry II of England</a>, a descendant of Rollo.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="origins-and-historiography">Origins and historiography</h2> <p>Rollo was born in the mid-9th century, as his tomb states he was in his eighties when he died in 933; he was almost certainly born in <a href="/facts/Scandinavia/KpLQ40kl">Scandinavia</a>, either in Denmark or Norway. In part, this uncertainty may result from the unspecific contemporary usage of terms such as "Vikings", "Northmen", "Norse", "Swedes", "Danes", and "Norwegians" (<i>Dani vel Nortmanni</i> in medieval Latin). </p><p>The earliest well-attested historical event associated with Rollo is his part in leading the Vikings who <a href="/facts/Siege_of_Paris_(885%E2%80%9386)/xfpfrv1o">besieged Paris in 885–886</a> but were fended off by <a href="/facts/Odo_of_France/LNWwn2Cn">Odo of France</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p><p>Sources do not make clear the year of Rollo's birth, but from his activity, marriage, children, and death, the mid-9th century may be inferred. </p><p>Among biographical remarks about Rollo written by the cleric <a href="/facts/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin/hzJe0teq">Dudo of Saint-Quentin</a> in the late 10th century, he claimed that Rollo "the Dane" was from Dacia [de] (a <a href="/facts/Blend_word/3bRveURF">blend</a> of the Latin for Denmark (<i>Dania</i>) and Sweden (<i>Suecia</i>)), and had moved from there to the island of Scandza. One of Rollo's great-grandsons and a contemporary of Dudo was known as <a href="/facts/Robert_II_(archbishop_of_Rouen)/oUCVWaJH">Robert the Dane</a>. However, Dudo's <i>Historia Normannorum</i> (or <i>Libri III de moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum</i>) was commissioned by Rollo's grandson, Richard I of Normandy and while Dudo likely had access to family members and/or other people with a living memory of Rollo, this fact must be weighed against the text's potential biases, as an official biography.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p><p>According to Dudo, an unnamed king of Denmark was antagonistic to Rollo's family, including his father – an unnamed Danish nobleman – and Rollo's brother Gurim. Following the death of their father, Gurim was killed and Rollo was forced to leave Denmark.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> Dudo appears to have been the main source for <a href="/facts/William_of_Jumi%C3%A8ges/Tc3p26yP">William of Jumièges</a> (after 1066) and <a href="/facts/Orderic_Vitalis/sgywGV8n">Orderic Vitalis</a> (early 12th century), although both include additional details.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p><p>A Norwegian background for Rollo was first explicitly claimed by <a href="/facts/Goffredo_Malaterra/GDmBvPXA">Goffredo Malaterra</a> (Geoffrey Malaterra), an 11th-century <a href="/facts/Benedictine/QsRVmXpw">Benedictine</a> monk and historian, who wrote: "Rollo sailed boldly from Norway with his fleet to the Christian coast."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> Likewise, the 12th-century English historian <a href="/facts/William_of_Malmesbury/RyspRgts">William of Malmesbury</a> stated that Rollo was "born of noble lineage among the Norwegians".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p><p>A chronicler named Benoît (probably <a href="/facts/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Sainte-More/mzclzzba">Benoît de Sainte-More</a>) wrote in the mid-12th-century <i><a href="/facts/Chronique_des_ducs_de_Normandie/mzclzzba">Chronique des ducs de Normandie</a></i> that Rollo had been born in a town named "Fasge". This has since been variously interpreted as referring to <a href="/facts/Faxe/R08RLtET">Faxe</a>, in <a href="/facts/Sj%C3%A6lland/M8AppbgJ">Sjælland</a> (Denmark), Fauske, in <a href="/facts/Sykkylven/IfS8CyHK">Sykkylven</a> (Norway), or perhaps a more obscure settlement that has since been abandoned or renamed. Benoît also repeated the claim that Rollo had been persecuted by a local ruler and had fled from there to "Scanza island", by which Benoît probably means <a href="/facts/Scania/rKQGu0hG">Scania</a> (Swedish <i>Skåne</i>). Benoît says elsewhere in the <i>Chronique</i> that Rollo is Danish.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/Snorri_Sturluson/KsRfVdnr">Snorri Sturluson</a> identified Rollo with Hrólfr the Walker (Norse <i>Göngu-Hrólfr</i>; Danish <i>Ganger-Hrólf</i>) from the 13th-century <a href="/facts/Iceland/E4KGYs2j">Icelandic</a> <a href="/facts/Saga/49wawMXk">sagas</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Heimskringla/zLtIqMQX">Heimskringla</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Orkneyinga_Saga/DsAAetxL">Orkneyinga Saga</a></i>. Hrólf the Walker was so named because he "was so big that no horse could carry him".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> The Icelandic sources claim that Hrólfr was from <a href="/facts/M%C3%B8re_og_Romsdal/DFsdrl18">Møre</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> in western <a href="/facts/Norway/wlDRKRTR">Norway</a>, in the late 9th century and that his parents were the Norwegian jarl <a href="/facts/Rognvald_Eysteinsson/rIUlMRL9">Rognvald Eysteinsson</a> ('Rognvald the Wise') and a noblewoman from Møre named <a href="/facts/Hildr_Hr%C3%B3lfsd%C3%B3ttir/JjKytPXl">Hildr Hrólfsdóttir</a>. However, these claims were made three centuries after the history commissioned by Rollo's own grandson. </p><p>There may be circumstantial evidence for kinship between Rollo and his historical contemporary <a href="/facts/Ketill_Flatnose/Sh5tqvA4">Ketill Flatnose</a>, <a href="/facts/King_of_the_Isles/ojSbDBLD">King of the Isles</a> – a Norse realm centred on the <a href="/facts/Western_Isles/UtWr1Mmp">Western Isles</a> of Scotland. Both Irish and Icelandic sources suggest that Rollo, as a young man, visited or lived in northern Scotland, where he had a daughter named Cadlinar (<i>Kaðlín</i> Kathleen).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> Icelandic sources name Ketill Flatnose's father as Björn Grímsson,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> which would imply that the name of Ketill Flatnose's paternal grandfather was <i>Grim</i>. That would be limited, <a href="/facts/Onomastic/b6g8Yszk">onomastic</a> evidence for a connection to Rollo, whose father (according to Richer) was named Ketill, while Rollo also (according to Dudo) had a brother named Gurim – a name likely cognate with <i>Grim</i>. In addition, Icelandic sources report that Rollo's ancestral home was <a href="/facts/M%C3%B8re_og_Romsdal/DFsdrl18">Møre</a>, where Ketill Flatnose's ancestors were also said to have originated. However, there are no surviving sources explicitly claiming a connection; <i>Ketill</i> was a common name in Norse societies,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> as were names like Gurim/<i>Grim</i>. </p> <h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Dudo's chronicle about Rollo seizing <a href="/facts/Rouen/o4noeA7S">Rouen</a> in 876 is supported by the contemporary chronicler <a href="/facts/Flodoard/0xoFU5ov">Flodoard</a>, who records that Robert of the <a href="/facts/Marches_of_Neustria/JaTtIlNm">Breton March</a> waged a campaign against the Vikings, nearly levelling Rouen and other settlements. Eventually, he conceded "certain coastal provinces" to them.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> Although, scholars have debated this and have said that Rollo did not even arrive in <a href="/facts/West_Francia/rCGugs8D">West Francia</a> until after the year 876, making this timeline given in Dudo wrong.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> </p><p>According to Dudo, Rollo struck up a friendship in England with a king called “<i>Alstem</i>”. This has puzzled many historians, but recently this person has been identified as <a href="/facts/Guthrum/5jkhcsaM">Guthrum</a>, the Danish leader whom Alfred the Great baptised with the name “<i>Athelstan</i>”, and was recognised as King of the East Angles in 880.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p><p>Dudo recorded that when Rollo controlled Bayeux by force, he carried off the beautiful <a href="/facts/Poppa_of_Bayeux/ddzYTwjm">Popa</a> or Poppa, a daughter of Berenger, Count of Rennes. He married her, and she bore his son and heir, <a href="/facts/William_Longsword,_Count_of_Rouen/hFcfXYTh">William Longsword</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> Her parentage is uncertain, and may have been invented after the fact to legitimize her son's lineage, as many of the fantastic genealogical claims made by Dudo were. She may have come from any country with which the Norse had contact, as Dudo is a highly unreliable source who may have written his chronicle primarily as a didactic tool to teach courtly values.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> </p> <p>There are few contemporary mentions of Rollo. In 911, <a href="/facts/Robert_I_of_France/0W30UfAm">Robert I of France</a>, brother of Odo, again defeated another band of Viking warriors in Chartres with his well-trained horsemen. This victory paved the way for Rollo's baptism and settlement in Normandy. In return for formal recognition of the lands he possessed, Rollo agreed to be baptised and assisted the king in defending the realm. As was custom, Rollo took the <a href="/facts/Christian_name/2YIAN43f">baptismal name</a> “Robert”, after his godfather, Robert I.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> </p><p>The seal of the agreement was to be a marriage between Rollo and <a href="/facts/Gisela_of_France/w56j2l8r">Gisela</a>, daughter of Charles, possibly her legitimate father.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> Since Charles first married in 907, that would mean that Gisela was at most 5 years old at the time of the treaty of 911 which offered her in marriage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> It has therefore been speculated that she could have been an illegitimate daughter.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> However, a diplomatic child betrothal need not be doubted.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> </p><p>The earliest record of Rollo is from 918, in a charter of <a href="/facts/Charles_the_Simple/NDmSwVNN">Charles III</a> to an abbey, which referred to an earlier grant to "the Normans of the <a href="/facts/Seine/Chd1gSKo">Seine</a>", namely "Rollo and his associates" for "the protection of the kingdom".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> Dudo retrospectively stated that this pact took place in 911 at <a href="/facts/Saint-Clair-sur-Epte/KbG5A30b">Saint-Clair-sur-Epte</a>. </p><p>Dudo narrates a humorous story not found in other primary sources about Rollo's pledge of fealty to Charles III as part of the <a href="/facts/Treaty_of_Saint-Clair-sur-Epte/hstvoVvs">Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte</a>. The attendant bishops urged Rollo to kiss the king's foot to prove his allegiance. Rollo refused, saying "I will never bow my knees at the knees of any man, and no man's foot will I kiss."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a> Instead, Rollo commanded one of his warriors to kiss the king's foot. The warrior complied by raising the king's foot to his mouth as the king was standing, which "caused the king to topple backward"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a> much to the amusement of their entourage. On taking his oath of fealty, Rollo divided the lands between the rivers <a href="/facts/Epte/eyWSCfKa">Epte</a> and <a href="/facts/Risle/auNWbpXv">Risle</a> among his chieftains and settled in the <i>de facto</i> capital of Rouen.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a> </p><p>Given Rouen and its <a href="/facts/Hinterland/X8q5It0C">hinterland</a> in return for the alliance with the <a href="/facts/Franks/RHyCqfkd">Franks</a>, it was agreed upon that it was in the interests of both Rollo himself and his Frankish allies to extend his authority over Viking settlers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a> This would appear to be the motive for later concessions to the Vikings of the Seine, which are mentioned in other records of the time. When Charles III was being deposed by <a href="/facts/Rudolph_of_France/8n9913eF">Rudolph of France</a> he appealed to Rollo and Ragenold [fr], another one of his Norman allies. With their combined army they marched to his aid in fulfilment of their pledge to the <a href="/facts/Carolingian_dynasty/L3WWV4It">Carolingians</a>, but were stopped at the <a href="/facts/Oise_(river)/uYjlkNgb">Oise River</a> by Charles' opponents who traded their cooperation for more territorial concessions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a> The need for an agreement was particularly urgent when <a href="/facts/Robert_I_of_France/0W30UfAm">Robert I</a>, successor of Charles III, was killed in 923.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a> </p><p>Rudolph was recorded as sponsoring a new agreement by which a group of Norsemen conceded the provinces of the Bessin and Maine. These settlers were presumed to be Rollo and his associates, moving their authority westward from the Seine valley.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45"><sup>45</sup></a> It is still unclear as to whether Rollo was being given lordship over the Vikings already settled in the region to domesticate and restrain them, or the Franks around <a href="/facts/Bayeux/j5Ex5Jvk">Bayeux</a> to protect them from other Viking leaders settled in eastern <a href="/facts/Brittany/XvquwmIg">Brittany</a> and the <a href="/facts/Cotentin_peninsula/pdfFTU4Y">Cotentin peninsula</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46"><sup>46</sup></a> </p><p>Rollo died sometime between a final mention of him by <a href="/facts/Flodoard/0xoFU5ov">Flodoard</a> in 928, and 933 – the year in which a third grant of land, usually identified as being the Cotentin and Avranchin areas, was given to his son and successor <a href="/facts/William_I_Longsword/hFcfXYTh">William</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47"><sup>47</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="rollos-role-in-norman-conversion-to-christianity">Rollo's Role in Norman Conversion to Christianity</h2> <p>In <a href="/facts/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin/hzJe0teq">Dudo's</a> story of Rollo, he had a vision in which he was on a high mountain on a Frankish dwelling, where he washed himself in a stream and rid himself of the diseases with which he was infected. He then saw birds of all kinds gather around the mountain and wash themselves in this stream, which remained together as a whole group and found twigs to build nests. This dream was interpreted to mean that the mountain was the church of Christianity, the diseases of which he rid himself were his sins being washed away and his being born again in the baptism of Christianity. The birds of different types represented the different armies and common people having their sins washed away and communities joined. The nests were the walls of the city to be rebuilt, and all were to bow down to Rollo to serve him. Rollo carried this vision with him throughout his journey to Normandy. Once he arrived and was granted land, he dedicated different sections of land to God, saints, and various churches. He was baptised and spread the word of Christianity to his followers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48"><sup>48</sup></a> </p><p>This account of Rollo's role in Christianity has been long debated by scholars. In his 1752 work <a href="/facts/Microm%C3%A9gas/brx1pjt7">Micromégas</a>, <a href="/facts/Voltaire/h2pyULrC">Voltaire</a> wrote that "peaceful Rollo was the only legislator of his time on the Christian continent". Recently, Scholars have said that Rollo's law-making was the cause of the civilization of Normandy, not his actual conversion to Christianity.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49"><sup>49</sup></a> While it has been supported that Rollo and his companions did get baptized, it has been argued that this conversion was only formal at first and paganism was still practiced.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50"><sup>50</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="descendants">Descendants</h2> <p>Rollo's son and heir, <a href="/facts/William_Longsword,_Count_of_Rouen/hFcfXYTh">William Longsword</a>, and grandchild, <a href="/facts/Richard_I_of_Normandy/gPPEUkfI">Richard the Fearless</a>, forged the <a href="/facts/Duchy_of_Normandy/Lx3Y0H7P">Duchy of Normandy</a> into <a href="/facts/West_Francia/rCGugs8D">West Francia</a>'s most cohesive and formidable principality.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51"><sup>51</sup></a> The descendants of Rollo and his men assimilated with the Frankish culture and became known as the <a href="/facts/Normans/nUclGJWf">Normans</a>, lending their name to the region of <a href="/facts/Normandy/0NfFuSct">Normandy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52"><sup>52</sup></a> </p><p>Rollo was the great-great-great-grandfather of <a href="/facts/William_the_Conqueror/TY2tfKzw">William the Conqueror</a>, the progenitor of <a href="/facts/House_of_Normandy/T9LPoNP6">House of Normandy</a> in England; however, <a href="/facts/Charles_III/w4hCfC9k">Charles III</a> and the <a href="/facts/British_Royal_Family/mx49mfWs">British Royal Family</a> are not direct male-line descendants of Rollo, as the House of Normandy ended with the death of <a href="/facts/Henry_I_of_England/X5H9N6z4">Henry I</a>. However, the <a href="/facts/House_of_Plantagenet/euMP7zW8">House of Plantagenet</a> was influenced by the Norman dynasty, as <a href="/facts/Empress_Matilda/LoIbp8mH">Empress Matilda</a>, the mother of <a href="/facts/Henry_II_of_England/ryWkqNRB">Henry II of England</a> was the daughter of the Norman king <a href="/facts/Henry_I_of_England/X5H9N6z4">Henry I</a>. </p><p>A <a href="/facts/Y_chromosome/nBDd0Vlg">genetic</a> investigation into the remains of Rollo's grandson Richard the Fearless, and his great-grandson <a href="/facts/Richard_II,_Duke_of_Normandy/3UozWuNa">Richard the Good</a>, was announced in 2011 to discern the origins of the historic Viking leader.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53"><sup>53</sup></a> On 29 February 2016, Norwegian researchers opened Richard the Good's tomb and found a lower jaw with eight teeth in it.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54"><sup>54</sup></a> However, the skeletal remains in both graves turned out to significantly predate Rollo and therefore are not related to him.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55"><sup>55</sup></a> </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><ul><li>v</li><li>t</li><li>e</li></ul> <a href="/facts/House_of_Normandy/T9LPoNP6">House of Normandy</a> Family tree</th></tr><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><i><a href="/facts/Count_of_Rouen/PAbHRy4M">Count of Rouen</a>, 911</i></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" 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rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><i><a href="/facts/Duke_of_Normandy/PAbHRy4M">Duke of Normandy</a>, 942</i></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard_I_of_Normandy/gPPEUkfI">Richard I</a>"the Fearless"932–9961st Duke of Normandy r. 942–996</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard_II,_Duke_of_Normandy/3UozWuNa">Richard II</a>"the Good"d. 10262nd Duke of Normandy r. 996–1027</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Robert_II_(archbishop_of_Rouen)/oUCVWaJH">Robert</a><a href="/facts/Count_of_%C3%89vreux/NX3VLYdN">Count of Évreux</a>, <a href="/facts/Archbishop_of_Rouen/kGDxEhyY">Archbishop of Rouen</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Mauger,_Count_of_Corbeil/PGkWSNL8">Mauger</a>c. 988–1032m. Germain, Countess of Corbeil</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Geoffrey,_Count_of_Eu/nJw7GLI4">Geoffrey</a>d. c. 1010<a href="/facts/Counts_of_Eu/Wy5vMPTB">Count of Eu</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William_I,_Count_of_Eu/99PdIjRr">William I</a>978–after 1057<a href="/facts/Counts_of_Eu/Wy5vMPTB">Count of Eu</a> and <a href="/facts/Count_of_Hi%C3%A9mois/CtxbyJYJ">Hiémois</a></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/De_Clare/Q8BroPlY">House of Clare</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard_III,_Duke_of_Normandy/KtjjELyT">Richard III</a>997/1001–10273rd Duke of Normandy r. 1026–1027</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Robert_I,_Duke_of_Normandy/cgMX46FC">Robert I</a>"the Magnificent"1000–10354th Duke of Normandy r. 1027–1035</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard,_Count_of_%C3%89vreux/ETg4LtFB">Richard</a>c. 1015–1067<a href="/facts/Count_of_%C3%89vreux/NX3VLYdN">Count of Évreux</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Ralph_de_Gac%C3%A9/CUIrkAJq">Ralph de Gacé</a>d. 1051<a href="/facts/Lord_of_Gac%C3%A9/Tz3eq4MY">Lord of Gacé</a></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td 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rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Nicolas_of_Normandy/WYyEHVQ9">Nicolas of Normandy</a>c. 1027–1092<a href="/facts/Saint-Ouen_Abbey,_Rouen/DerDbSsm">Abbot of Saint Ouen</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William_I_of_England/TY2tfKzw">William II (of Normandy)</a>"the Conqueror"c. 1028–10875th Duke of Normandy r. 1035–1087, King of England as "William I" r. 1066–1087</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William,_Count_of_%C3%89vreux/6qLswzQF">William</a>c. 1015–1067<a href="/facts/Count_of_%C3%89vreux/NX3VLYdN">Count of Évreux</a></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Robert_Curthose/6n9r2Twg">Robert II</a>"Curthose"c. 1051–11346th Duke of Normandy r. 1087–1106</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard_(son_of_William_the_Conqueror)/T541Nx0E">Richard</a>c. 1054–1070</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Adela_of_Normandy/2eJfRTnN">Adela</a>c. 1067–1137m. <a href="/facts/Stephen_II,_Count_of_Blois/Agp05q69">Stephen II</a>, <a href="/facts/Count_of_Blois/3DvwftHD">Count of Blois</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William_II_of_England/jIk3o5GI">William II (of England)</a>"Rufus"c. 1057–1100King of England r. 1087–1100<i>Ducal Regent r. 1096–1100</i></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Henry_I_of_England/X5H9N6z4">Henry I</a>"Beauclerc"c. 1068–1135King of England r. 1100–1135, 7th Duke of Normandy r. 1106–1135</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2">Illegitimate→</td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William_Clito/Br92B7j2">William Clito</a>1102–1128<a href="/facts/Count_of_Flanders/6FrH2WSB">Count of Flanders</a><i>Ducal claimant</i></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Stephen,_King_of_England/TdGbogV2">Stephen</a>1092/1096–1154King of England r. 1135–1154, 8th Duke of Normandy r. 1135–1144</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Henry_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor/D7a6g7W7">Henry V</a>1081/1086–1125King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor</td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Empress_Matilda/LoIbp8mH">Matilda I</a>c. 1102–1167Lady of the English "Empress Matilda"</td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Geoffrey_Plantagenet,_Count_of_Anjou/MCPPF7pS">Geoffrey Plantagenet</a>1113–1151<a href="/facts/Count_of_Anjou/er1bHVrC">Count of Anjou</a>, 9th Duke of Normandy r. 1144–1150</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/William_Adelin/t3z6mI31">William III Adelin</a>1103–<a href="/facts/White_Ship/oP7MIdDa">1120</a>Duke of Normandy 1120<i>in his father's lifetime</i></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Robert,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester/A4X9gJN3">Robert I</a>c. 1090–11471st <a href="/facts/Earl_of_Gloucester/AeNrbjBu">Earl of Gloucester</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Richard_of_Lincoln_(illegitimate_son_of_Henry_I_of_England)/SrHfGEke">Richard of Lincoln</a>before 1101–1120</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Reginald_de_Dunstanville,_Earl_of_Cornwall/uQ05M4LR">Reginald</a>c. 1100–11751st <a href="/facts/Earl_of_Cornwall/shLFL62B">Earl of Cornwall</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Robert_fitzEdith/4aoS6gjK">Robert FitzEdith</a>1093–1172m. Matilda d'Avranches, <a href="/facts/Feudal_barony_of_Okehampton/d8VmeRS6">Baroness of Okehampton</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Gilbert_FitzRoy/pxd5KTHS">Gilbert FitzRoy</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Henry_FitzRoy_(d._1158)/qTGxk6rr">Henry FitzRoy</a>c. 1100/1104–1158</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Fulk_FitzRoy/7sGR6z2R">Fulk FitzRoy</a>c. 1092–1132Monk at Abingdon?</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/House_of_Blois/SKc9ycyv">House of Blois</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Salian_dynasty/FUKU8WH2">House of Salians</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/House_of_Plantagenet/euMP7zW8">House of Plantagenet</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" 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href="/facts/Duchy_of_Normandy/Lx3Y0H7P">Duchy of Normandy</a> renounced at <a href="/facts/Treaty_of_Paris_(1259)/bUvEASa6">Treaty of Paris</a>, 1259</i></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="legacy">Legacy</h2> <p>Rollo's dynasty survived through a combination of ruthless military action and infighting among the 10th-century Frankish aristocracy, which left them severely weakened and unable to resist the Rouen Vikings' growing determination to stay put.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56"><sup>56</sup></a> After Rollo's death, his direct male descendants continued to rule Normandy until <a href="/facts/Stephen_of_Blois/TdGbogV2">Stephen of Blois</a> became King of England and Duke of Normandy in 1135.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57"><sup>57</sup></a> The duchy was later absorbed into what became the <a href="/facts/Angevin_Empire/D7X4g1cY">Angevin Empire</a> following its conquest by <a href="/facts/Geoffrey_Plantagenet,_Count_of_Anjou/MCPPF7pS">Geoffrey of Anjou</a>, who in 1128 had married <a href="/facts/Matilda_of_England/LoIbp8mH">Matilda of England</a>, herself a descendant of Rollo.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58"><sup>58</sup></a> </p><p>Rollo left a legacy as the founder of Normandy, and his leadership and integration of Viking settlers into the region transformed it into a stable political entity.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59"><sup>59</sup></a> His lineage played a key role in shaping medieval Europe, as it was <a href="/facts/William_the_Conqueror/TY2tfKzw">William the Conqueror</a>, another descendant of Rollo, who famously led the <a href="/facts/Norman_Conquest/z8AShyvl">Norman Conquest of England</a> in 1066. Rollo's baptism also marked a significant point in the assimilation of Viking settlers into Frankish society. </p> <h2 id="depictions-in-fiction">Depictions in fiction</h2> <p>Rollo is the subject of the 17th-century play <i><a href="/facts/Rollo_Duke_of_Normandy/xbgDeIxw">Rollo Duke of Normandy</a></i>, also known as <i>The Bloody Brother</i>, written by <a href="/facts/John_Fletcher_(playwright)/KKkyTUd9">John Fletcher</a>, <a href="/facts/Philip_Massinger/XNrXylPL">Philip Massinger</a>, <a href="/facts/Ben_Jonson/I8Horb16">Ben Jonson</a>, and <a href="/facts/George_Chapman/LFnkdqcF">George Chapman</a>. The similarities to Rollo are slim, as the play draws inspiration from Herodian's account of the rivalry between Emperor Severus's sons, Geta and Antonine. However, the setting shifts from ancient Rome to medieval France, with the brothers reimagined as Otto and Rollo. Initially appointed as co-rulers of the kingdom, Rollo seizes sole power by killing Otto. His reign, marked by tyranny, ultimately ends when he is killed in retribution for his oppressive rule.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60"><sup>60</sup></a> </p><p>A character, broadly inspired by the historical Rollo but including many events predating the historical Rollo's birth, played by <a href="/facts/Clive_Standen/HGoVKAz7">Clive Standen</a>, is <a href="/facts/Ragnar_Lothbrok/aoAXczvA">Ragnar Lothbrok</a>'s brother in the <a href="/facts/History_(U.S._TV_channel)/jLIIsuhg">History Channel</a> television series <i><a href="/facts/Vikings_(TV_series)/EecLRn8t">Vikings</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61"><sup>61</sup></a> In the series, Rollo is the brother of Ragnar Lothbrok. Rollo was staying in West Francia to maintain the Viking's hold on the Seine, as a spot to lead future raids. But, the Franks are able to sway him to betray his brother and go through with an acceptance of land and a marriage to the princess Gisla. There are similarities in this story seen in <a href="/facts/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin/hzJe0teq">Dudo's</a>, as Rollo settled in West Francia, although there is no mention of betrayal to his brother. He also in the Dudo account marries Charles the Simple's daughter, which is similar to his marriage of princess Gisla.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62"><sup>62</sup></a> </p><p>Rollo is a character in the video game <i><a href="/facts/Assassin%27s_Creed_Valhalla/cCE6DxoL">Assassin's Creed Valhalla</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63"><sup>63</sup></a> </p> <h3>Citations</h3> <h3>Sources</h3> <ul><li>Bates, David (1982). <i>Normandy Before 1066</i>. Longman. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-582-48492-4.</li> <li>Crouch, David (2006). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f_TUAwAAQBAJ&q=rollo+viking+was+baptised+Robert&pg=PA8"><i>The Normans: The History of a Dynasty</i></a>. A & C Black. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-85285-595-6. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230502024414/https://books.google.com/books?id=f_TUAwAAQBAJ&q=rollo+viking+was+baptised+Robert&pg=PA8">Archived</a> from the original on 2 May 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2020.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin/hzJe0teq">Dudo of Saint-Quentin</a> (1998). Christiansen, Eric (ed.). <i>Dudo of St Quentin: </i>History of the Normans<i></i>. Woodbridge. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-85115-552-4.</li> <li>Ferguson, Robert (2009). <i>The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings</i>. London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Group. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-670-02079-9.</li> <li>Van Houts, Elizabeth (2000). <i>The Normans in Europe</i>. Manchester: Manchester University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7190-4751-0.</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <h3>Primary texts</h3> <ul><li>Dudo of St. Quentin (1998). Eric Christiansen (ed.). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3ueqiHfAzrMC&dq=dudo+of+St+Quentin&pg=PP1"><i>History of the Normans</i></a>. Translated by Eric Christiansen. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0851155524.</li> <li>Elizabeth van Houts, ed. (1992). <i>The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni</i>.</li> <li>Elizabeth van Houts, ed. (2000). <i>The Normans in Europe</i>. Translated by Elizabeth van Houts. Manchester and New York: Manchester University.</li> <li><i>Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney</i>. Translated by <a href="/facts/Hermann_P%C3%A1lsson/wuUJpYnC">Pálsson, Hermann</a>; Edwards, Paul. London: Hogarth Press. 1978. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-7012-0431-1.. Republished 1981, Harmondsworth: Penguin. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-14-044383-5.</li></ul> <h3>Secondary texts</h3> <ul><li>Crouch, David (2002). <a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781852855956"><i>The Normans: the History of a Dynasty</i></a>. London: Hambledon and London. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-85285-387-5.</li> <li>Christiansen, Eric (2002). <a href="https://archive.org/details/norsemeninviking00eric"><i>The Norsemen in the Viking Age</i></a>. Blackwell Publishers Ltd.</li> <li>Fitzhugh, William W.; Ward, Elizabeth (2000). <a href="https://archive.org/details/vikingsnorthatla00fitz"><i>Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga</i></a>. Smithsonian Institution Press.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Flodoard_of_Reims/0xoFU5ov">Flodoard of Reims</a> (2011). Fanning, Steven; Bachrach, Bernard S. (eds.). <i>The Annals of Flodoard of Reims: 919–966</i>. University of Toronto Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-44260-001-0.</li> <li>Konstam, Agnus (2002). <i>Historical Atlas of the Viking World</i>. Checkmark Books.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"4 – To Shetland and Orkney". Orkneyinga Saga. pp. 26–27. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Little, Charles Eugene (1900). Cyclopedia of Classified Dates: With an Exhaustive Index, by Charles E. Little; for the Use of Students of History, and for All Persons who Desire Speedy Access to the Facts and Events, which Relate to the Histories of the Various Countries of the World, from the Earliest Recorded Dates. Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 666. OCLC 367478758. rollo paris 885–886. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofclas00litt" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofclas00litt</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mark, Joshua J. (27 November 2018). "Odo of West Francia". World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Odo_of_West_Francia/" target="_blank">https://www.worldhistory.org/Odo_of_West_Francia/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bates 1982, pp. 8–10. - Bates, David (1982). Normandy Before 1066. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-48492-4. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Flodoard of Reims 2011, pp. xx–xxi, 14, 16–17 - Flodoard of Reims (2011). Fanning, Steven; Bachrach, Bernard S. (eds.). The Annals of Flodoard of Reims: 919–966. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-44260-001-0. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Douglas, D. C. (1942). Rollo of Normandy. The English Historical Review, 57(228), 417–436. http://www.jstor.org/stable/554369 <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/554369" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/554369</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Rollo". Encyclopedia Britannica. 28 August 2008. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2017. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rollo-duke-of-Normandy" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rollo-duke-of-Normandy</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Neveux, François; Curtis, Howard (2008). A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe. Robinson. ISBN 978-1-84529-523-3. <a href="978-1-84529-523-3" target="_blank">978-1-84529-523-3</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ferguson 2009, p. 180. - Ferguson, Robert (2009). The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings. London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-670-02079-9. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Crouch 2006. - Crouch, David (2006). The Normans: The History of a Dynasty. A & C Black. ISBN 978-1-85285-595-6. Archived from the original on 2 May 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2020. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f_TUAwAAQBAJ&q=rollo+viking+was+baptised+Robert&pg=PA8" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=f_TUAwAAQBAJ&q=rollo+viking+was+baptised+Robert&pg=PA8</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas, eds. (2007). Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6. <a href="978-1-84383-340-6" target="_blank">978-1-84383-340-6</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Wace (2004). Burgess, Glyn S. (ed.). The History of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou. Boydell Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-84383-007-8. <a href="978-1-84383-007-8" target="_blank">978-1-84383-007-8</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Little, Charles Eugene (1900). Cyclopedia of Classified Dates: With an Exhaustive Index, by Charles E. Little; for the Use of Students of History, and for All Persons who Desire Speedy Access to the Facts and Events, which Relate to the Histories of the Various Countries of the World, from the Earliest Recorded Dates. Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 666. OCLC 367478758. rollo paris 885–886. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofclas00litt" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofclas00litt</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Mark, Joshua J. (27 November 2018). "Odo of West Francia". World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Odo_of_West_Francia/" target="_blank">https://www.worldhistory.org/Odo_of_West_Francia/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Dudo 1998, Chapter 5 - Dudo of Saint-Quentin (1998). Christiansen, Eric (ed.). Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans. Woodbridge. ISBN 978-0-85115-552-4. <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Dudo 1998, Chapter 5. Dudo uses the terminology of the day, Scandia for the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula and Dacia for Denmark (also the name of a Roman province near the Black Sea). - Dudo of Saint-Quentin (1998). Christiansen, Eric (ed.). Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans. Woodbridge. ISBN 978-0-85115-552-4. <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Ferguson 2009, p. 177. - Ferguson, Robert (2009). The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings. London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-670-02079-9. <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Malaterra, Geoffrey (2005). The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria & Sicily & of Duke Robert Guiscard his brother, Geoffrey Malaterra. Translated by Loud, Graham A. p. 3. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020. <a href="https://fliphtml5.com/lysh/vtfl/" target="_blank">https://fliphtml5.com/lysh/vtfl/</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>William of Malmesbury (1989) [1854]. Stephenson, John (ed.). The Kings Before the Norman Conquest. Vol. II, 127. Translated by Sharpe, John. Seeleys, London: Llanerch. p. 110. <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Rollo and his followers are referred to as Daneis throughout the Chronique. For example, Iriez fu Rous en son curage [...] Ne lui nuire n’à ses Daneis (Francisque Michel edition, p. 173, available online via Internet Archive). <a href="/wiki/Francisque_Michel" target="_blank">/wiki/Francisque_Michel</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>"4 – To Shetland and Orkney". Orkneyinga Saga. pp. 26–27. <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Sturluson, Snorri (1966). King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway. Translated by Magnusson, Magnus; Pálsson, Hermann. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-044183-3. <a href="978-0-14-044183-3" target="_blank">978-0-14-044183-3</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>Bull, Edvard; Krogvig, Anders; Gran, Gerhard, eds. (1929). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 351–353. <a href="/wiki/Norsk_biografisk_leksikon" target="_blank">/wiki/Norsk_biografisk_leksikon</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:24"><p>La Fay, Howard (1972). The Vikings. Special Publications. Washington DC: National Geographic Society. p. 146, 147, 164–165. 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