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    Poppa of Bayeux (French: [pɔpa d(ə) bɛjø]; born c. 880) was the wife more danico of the Viking leader Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword...
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  • cambio fonético del catalán. Lo más seguro es que señale el origen de Bayeux (Francia). VL y CS. "Bayarri", Heráldica Valenciana, Instituto de Historia y...
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    Seine after the Siege of Chartres in 911. Charles the Simple, king of West Francia, granted them lands between the mouth of the Seine and what is now Rouen...
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    the boy and declaring him his heir, William sent Richard to be raised in Bayeux. Richard was about ten years old when his father was killed on 17 December...
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    According to limited early records, Gisela was a daughter of the king of West Francia, Charles the Simple. There is some debate about whether she existed, and...
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  • service of a Frankish king, in his case Charles the Bald, king of West Francia. He may be identified with the Swedish king Björn Ironside. In July 856...
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    d'Outremer or Transmarinus ("From overseas"), reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son...
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    pagan) and his wife more danico (a kind of non-Christian marriage), Poppa of Bayeux. Poppa's parentage is uncertain. Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his panegyric...
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    intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia. The Norse settlements in West Francia followed a series of raids on the French northern coast...
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  • Corbie and Bishop of Beauvais Odo of France (c. 857–898), King of Western Francia Odo, Count of Toulouse (died 919) Odo I, Count of Blois (c. 950–996) Otto...
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