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First Duke of Normandy. Also known as "Rolf" and "The Ganger".
DUDLE.GED file: 1st Duke of Normandy; b abt 846, d abt 932
Founder of the royal House of Normandy and England, 1st Duke of
Normandy, 912 "Americans of Royal Descent", Charles H. Browning, p.
25; Hralfr Gongen Rollo - COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve Roots), p. 6; Gonge
Rolf (Marching Rolf) "Rollo the Dane", 1st Duke of Normandy - NORM.TAF
(Compuserve)
COLVER31.TXT file 'Gange-Rolf', d. 927
WSHNGT.ASC file (Geo Washington Ahnentafel) # 34900768 = 3682840; b
abt 870 of Maer, Norway, d 927/932
"Our Royal Descent from Alfred 'the Great' ..." in Steve Clare papers,
p 41, his first home in France was the great Castle of 'Mount St.
Michael'
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/edw3chrt.html#BEGIN or Rolf b 845 d
931
"Bloodline ...", p 416, 427-31, d 927, Count of Ronen (the Ganger);
the 1st Norman (Northman), founder of Normandy 911
http://www.generation.net/~grail/chsinclx.htm Saint Clair Bloodlinks
(Clare & Sinclair) genealogy chart: shows his ancestry as
"Rogenwald Earl of Maere (der. 'Arimathea'?) a near-relative of King
Harold of Norway was granted, in 888 AD, Orkney Isles ... 490 yrs
later Henry Sinclair claims Orkneys based on this grant"
A note for Adelheid or Adele (917-962) (RIN=20304) wife of William III
(929-963) reads "... cf file EDW3.DOC ... says her parents were Rollo
(Rolf) Duke of NORMANDY (845-931) and Poppa (Papia) (848- )" [this
note comes from the Internet site
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/edw3chrt.html#BEGIN]
Royalty for Commoners, The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt,
Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa by Roderick W.
Stuart, Revised Second Edition, Copyright 1995, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., 1001 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202,
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 95-79107, ISBN 0-8063-1486-9
http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal03014
Ragnvaldsson, Robert (Rollo) of Norway, Duke of Normandy 1st; acc 911
cf. Europäisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 36.
"Royalty for Commoners, The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt,
Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa" by Roderick W.
Stuart, Rev. 2nd Ed, 1995, Genealogical Publ Co., Inc., Lib Congr Cat
Card No 95-79107, ISBN 0-8063-1486-9.
or Rollon, Granger Rolf; 1st Duke of Normandy, a Viking; Count of
Rouen
a.k.a. the Norwegian Viking Hrolf the Ganger, so called because he was
so huge no horse could carry him and he had to walk ("King Harald's
Saga", p 130 footnote)
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