Poppa de Bayeux

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Poppa de Bayeux

Birth
Caen, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Death
11 Aug 930 (aged 57–58)
Caen, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Burial
Rouen, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Add to Map
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She was second wife to Rollo 'Duke of Normandy' Rognvaldsson who defeated the Franks and took the St Cler castle. The daughter of Count Berenger de Bayeux, she was captured during a raid and kept (as his wife)as was the Viking tradition.
She was second wife to Rollo 'Duke of Normandy' Rognvaldsson who defeated the Franks and took the St Cler castle. The daughter of Count Berenger de Bayeux, she was captured during a raid and kept (as his wife)as was the Viking tradition.

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'Duchess of Normandy'