Hrolf "Ganger" Rognvaldsson Princeps Nortmannorum

   Other names for Hrolf were Robert I comté de Normandy and Rollo Rognvaldsson Princeps Nortmannorum.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 121E:18, 243A:17, 1st Count of Normandy, banished from Normandy to the Hebrides. Took part in the Viking attck on Bayeux, where Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed, and his daughter Poppa captured and taken in 886, by Rollo as his "Danish" wife. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Rollo "Ganger.
Orkneyinga Saga names "Hrolf who conquered Normandy" as son of "Earl Rognwald" and his wife "Ragnhild the daughter of Hrolf Nose," adding that he was so big that no horse could carry him, giving rise to his name "Göngu-Hrolf"[Orkneyinga Saga 4, p. 26]. Snorre names "Rolf and Thorer" as the two sons of "Earl Ragnvald" and his wife Hild, recording that Rolf was banished from Norway by King Harald and travelled to the Hebrides, settling first in Orkney before moving southwards through Scotland, and eventually conquering Normandy Snorre, Harald Harfager's Saga, 24].

• Web Reference: Rollo by Stewart Baldwin.

Hrolf married "Poppa" de Bayeux, daughter of Bérenger comté de Bayeux and Mademoiselle du Vexin.¹⁶⁷ ("Poppa" de Bayeux died about 872.)