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"the Young King" 1155–1183 Duke of Normandy r. 1170–1183 in his father's lifetime: Richard IV "Lionheart" 1157–1199 11th Duke of Normandy, King of England as "Richard I" r. 1189–1199: John "Lackland" 1166–1216 12th Duke of Normandy, King of England r. 1199–1216: Henry III 1207–1272 13th Duke of Normandy r. 1216–1259 King of ...
The first mention of her is when she was betrothed to Rollo after the Siege of Chartres in 911.When Rollo was defeated, he agreed to the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, in which he was created the first Duke of Normandy, swore fealty to Charles, agreed to convert to Christianity, and married Gisela.
In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western France. The duchy arose out of a grant of land to the Viking leader Rollo by the French king Charles the Simple in 911.
This concession was a problem for the king since Charles was the puppet of the king's enemies. Normandy could thus serve as a basis for rebellion against the royal power. In 1469, therefore, Louis XI convinced his brother under duress to exchange Normandy for the Duchy of Guyenne (Aquitaine). [24]
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]
Kingdom of France in the late 10th century; the Duchy of Normandy is marked Duché de Normandie, and the royal domain is blue.. The treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911) is the foundational document of the Duchy of Normandy, establishing Rollo, a Norse warlord and Viking leader, as the first Duke of Normandy in exchange for his loyalty to Charles III, the king of West Francia, following the ...
Normandy was born in 911, when Charles the Simple, King of West Francia, ceded part of Neustria to the Viking Rollo at the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte. [1] Although Normandy may have been totally independent in its early years, as the Viking chieftain was unaware of the feudal system, [2] it soon became a fiefdom in which its chieftain had to pay tribute to the King of France as a vassal. [3]
In the eleventh century, it was a stronghold lordship which depended Raoul de Tancarville, guardian of Duke William the Conqueror, future king of England. The fact that Raoul was chamberlain of Normandy, and this function has remained in the family, reinforces a simple corroboration of the hereditary nature of this title.