Person:Poppa (1)

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'Poppa of Bayeux (; born 880 AD), was the wife more danico of the Viking conqueror 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 captured at Bayeux by Rollo in 885 or 889, shortly after the siege of Paris. This has led to speculation that she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria.

There are different opinions among medieval genealogy experts about Poppa's family. Christian Settipani says her parents were Guy de Senlis and Cunegundis, the daughter of Pepin, Count of Vermandois, and sister of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois. Katherine Keats-Rohan states she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria by Adelind, whose father was Henry, Margrave of the Franks, or Adela of Vermandois. 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. Based on her separate more Danico status that differentiates her from Rollo's Christian wife Gisela of France, Poppa's family was unlikely to have been powerful Christian nobility who would have insisted—by force if necessary—on a legal and monogamous Christian marriage for their daughter. Poppa was likely a common woman taken from a country with which the Norse had trade contact. A statue of Poppa stands at the Place de Gaulle in Bayeux.

Disputed Lineages

There is almost no certain information regarding the parents of William Longsword's mother. Even her real name is lost - Poppa being a only a nickname. Nevertheless, several GEDCOMs have uploaded speculative parents including the following:

 * Family:Berengar II of Neustria and Unknown (1)

 * Family:Count Vidonis and Miss De Vermandois (1)

1. ↑ Poppa, in Stewart Baldwin / Todd Farmerie. Henry Project. (updated 27 May 2002).

   "Poppa"
   Wife or mistress of Rollo "of Normandy", fl. 10th century
   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 [ii, 16 (pp. 38-9); iii, 36 (p. 57)] and by sources depending on him (hence the quotes around her name). 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.

2.   (SoN)Story of the Normans. (Sarah Orne Jewett; New York: Putnam Press, 1888)
   p.40.
3.   Settipani, Christian and van Kerrebrouck, Patrick. La Prehistoire des Capetiens
   481-987.
4.   Peter Townend, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, One Hundred and Third Edition (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, MCMLXII (1963))
   pg. xcii.
5. ↑ Poppa of Bayeux, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
6. ↑ Biographie a Wikipédia FR, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   [[1]], trouvée 2016.

   Poppa de Bayeux est la « frilla » (épouse More danico)1 du jarl des Normands, Rollon et la mère du duc de Normandie Guillaume « Longue-Épée ».
   Ses origines restent obscures. Les historiens retiennent deux hypothèses :
   Selon Dudon de Saint-Quentin, elle serait la fille du comte Bérenger.
   Selon les Annales de Jumièges, Popa serait la fille de Gui, comte de Senlis et la sœur de Bernard