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William I Longsword (French: Guillaume Longue-Épée, Latin: Willermus Longa Spata, Old Norse: Vilhjálmr Langaspjót) (c. 900 - 942) was the second ruler of Normandy, from 927 until his assassination.[1] He is sometimes anachronistically dubbed "Duke of Normandy", even though the title duke (dux) did not come into common usage until the 11th century.[2] William was known at the time by the title count (Latin comes) of Rouen[3] Flodoard-always detailed about titles-consistently referred to both Rollo and his son William as principes (chieftains) of the Norse.[4] Birth William was born 'overseas'[a][5] to the Viking Rollo, while he was still a pagan, and his Christian wife Poppa of Bayeux.[6][7] Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his panegyric of the Norman dukes describes Poppa as the daughter of a count Beranger, the dominant prince of that region.[8] In the 11th century Annales Rouennaises (Annals of Rouen), she is called the daughter of Guy, Count of Senlis,[9] otherwise unknown to history.[b] Despite the uncertainty of her parentage she was undoubtedly a member of the Frankish aristocracy.[10] According to the William's planctus, he was baptized a Christian probably at the same time as his father,[11] which Orderic Vitalis stated was in 912 and by Franco, Archbishop of Rouen[12][13] Life William succeeded Rollo (who was still alive) in 927[14] and, early in his reign, faced a rebellion from Normans[15] who felt he had become too Gallicised and too soft.[16] According to Orderic Vitalis, the leader was Riouf of Evreux.[16][17][18] At the time of this rebellion William sent his pregnant wife Sprota to Fécamp where their son Richard was born.[19] In 933, William I Longsword recognized Raoul as King of Western Francia, who was struggling to assert his authority in Northern France. In turn Raoul gave him lordship over much of the lands of the Bretons including Avranches and the Cotentin.[20][21] Resistance to the Normans was led by Alan Wrybeard, Duke of Brittany and Count Berenger of Rennes but ended shortly with Alan fleeing to England and Beranger seeking reconciliation.[22] In 935, William contracted a marriage between his sister Adela (Gerloc was her Norse name) and William, count of Poitou with the approval of Hugh the Great.[23] At the same time William married Luitgarde,[1] daughter of count Herbert II of Vermandois whose dowry gave him the lands of Longueville, Coudres and Illiers l'Eveque.[18] In addition to supporting king Raoul, he was now a loyal ally of his father-in-law, Herbert II, both of whom his father Rollo had opposed.[24] William Longsword attacked Flanders in 939 and Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, and Louis IV, King of France, retaliated by attacking Normandy. Arnulf captured the castle of Montreuil-sur-Mer expelling Herluin, Count of Ponthieu. Herluin and William Longsword cooperated to retake the castle.[25][26] William was excommunicated for his actions in attacking and destroying several estates belonging to Arnulf.[27] William pledged his loyalty to King Louis IV when they met in 940 and, in return, he was confirmed in lands that had been given to his father, Rollo.[28] Almost three years later, on 17 December 942 at Picquigny on the Somme, William Longsword was ambushed and killed by followers of Arnulf while at a peace conference to settle their differences.[18][26] Family He had no children with his wife Luitgarde.[29] After William's death she married Theobald I, Count of Blois and had at least three children with him.[29] William fathered his son, Richard the Fearless, with Sprota[c] who was a Breton captive and his concubine.[30] Richard succeeded him.[29] Notes Jump up ^ Neveux and other authorities believe this may have been in England, as Rollo left Neustria for several years, probably for England. See: Neveux, The Normans (2008), 62; Complainte sur l'assassinat de Guillaume Longue-Epée, duc de Normandie, poème inédit du Xe siècle, Gaston Paris; Jules Lair, Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes (1870), Volume 31, Issue 31, p. 397; Complainte de la mort de Guillaume Longue Epee; Prentout, Etude critique sur Dudon de Saint-Quentin, 178-9 [ns]. Jump up ^ See Commentary: The origin of Poppa at: Stewart Baldwin, The Henry Project: "Poppa" for more detailed discussion and opinions. Jump up ^ After William’s death, Sprota married Esperling, a rich miller in the Pont-de-l’Arche-Louviers region. By her, he had a son, count Rodulf of Ivry, who was one of the most trusted advisers of his half-brother, Richard I of Normandy. See Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 108; The Normans in Europe, ed. & trans. Elisabeth van Houts (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 57 References ^ Jump up to: a b Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 79 Jump up ^ David C. Douglas, 'The Earliest Norman Counts', The English Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 240 (May, 1946), p. 130 Jump up ^ David Crouch, The Normans: The History of a Dynasty, (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 14. The Normans in Europe, ed. & trans. Elisabeth van Houts (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2000),pp. 31, 41, 182 Jump up ^ Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 45 Jump up ^ François Neveux, A Brief History of the Normans, trans. Howard Curtis (London: Constable & Robbinson, Ltd, 2008), p. 62 & n. 111 Jump up ^ David C. Douglas, 'Rollo of Normandy', The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 228 (Oct., 1942), p. 422 Jump up ^ Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, ed. Marjorie Chibnall, Vol. II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), P. 7 Jump up ^ David C. Douglas, 'Rollo of Normandy', The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 228, (Oct., 1942), p. 417 Jump up ^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, 'Poppa of Bayeux and Her Family', The American Genealogist, vol. 72, no. 4 (July-October 1997), p. 198 Jump up ^ François Neveux, A Brief History of the Normans, trans. Howard Curtis (London: Constable & Robbinson, Ltd, 2008), pp. 60-1 Jump up ^ David Crouch, The Normans: The History of a Dynasty (London: Hambledon Continuum Press, 2007), p. 9 Jump up ^ Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol. I (New York: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), p. 380 Jump up ^ The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, ed. & trans Elizabeth M.C. Van Houts, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 67 (Citing William of Jumièges, Book II, ch. 12[18]) Jump up ^ David C. Douglas, 'Rollo of Normandy', The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 228 (Oct., 1942), p. 435 Jump up ^ The Normans in Europe, ed. & trans. Elisabeth van Houts (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 41 (Citing the Planctus for William Longsword composed shortly after his murder in 942) ^ Jump up to: a b A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World, ed. Christopher Harper-Bill; Elisabeth Van Houts (Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2007), p. 25 Jump up ^ David Crouch, The Normans: The History of a Dynasty, (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 11 ^ Jump up to: a b c François Neveux, A Brief History of the Normans (London: Constable & Robbinson, Ltd, 2008), p. 72 Jump up ^ Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 95 Jump up ^ Pierre Riché, The Carolingians; A Family who Forged Europe, trans. Michael Idomir Allen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), pp. 252-3 Jump up ^ The Annals of Flodoard of Reims; 916-966, eds. & trans. Steven Fanning; Bernard S. Bachrach (New York; Ontario Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011), p. xvii & notes 15b, 85 Jump up ^ The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, ed. & trans. Elizabeth M.C. Van Houts, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 79 Jump up ^ The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, ed. & trans. Elizabeth M.C. Van Houts, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 81 Jump up ^ The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 916-966, ed. & trans. Steven Fanning; Bernard S. Bachrach (New York; Ontario Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011), p. xxi Jump up ^ Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p.56 ^ Jump up to: a b David Nicholas, Medieval Flanders (London: Longman Group UK Limited, 1992), p. 40 Jump up ^ The Annals of Flodoard of Reims; 916-966, ed. & trans. Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach (New York; Ontario Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011), p. 31 Jump up ^ The Annals of Flodoard of Reims; 916-966, ed. & trans. Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach (New York; Ontario Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011), p. 32 ^ Jump up to: a b c François Neveux. A Brief History of The Normans (London: Constable & Robbinson, Ltd, 2008), p. 90 Jump up ^ The Normans in Europe, ed. & trans. Elisabeth van Houts (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 47 n. 77 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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