Rollo
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Rollo, or Rollo "the Walker", was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France. He emerged as a war leader among the Norsemen who had secure
Rollo as depicted in the 13th century
A statue of Rollo in Ålesund, Norway
Rollo's grave at the Cathedral of Rouen
Gisela of France
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According to limited early records, Gisela was a daughter of King Charles the Simple of West Francia and wife of Duke Rollo of Normandy. There is some debate about whether she existed, and if she did,
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…As was custom, Rollo took the baptismal name “Robert”, after his godfather, Robert I. The seal of the agreement was to be a marriage between Rollo and Gisela, daughter of Charles, possibly her legitimate father. Since Charles first married in 907, that would mean that Gisela was at most 5 years old at the…
14th-century depiction of the marriage of Rollo and Gisela