Ancestral Trails 2016 » SPROTA de SENLIS (912-932)

Persoonlijke gegevens SPROTA de SENLIS 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 912 in Bretagne, France.
• (Alternative Name) : Adela de Senlis.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 932 in Normandie, France, zij was toen 20 jaar oud.

  Let op: Was al overleden (??-??-932) bij geboorte (??-??-935) van kind (ADELE de NORMANDY).

  Let op: Overleden (??-??-932) voor huwelijk (??-??-943).

Gezin van SPROTA de SENLIS

(1) Zij is getrouwd met ASPERLING d'IVRY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 943 te Ivry, Oise, Picardie, France, zij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. RAOUL d'IVRY  ± 944-1011 

(2) Zij is getrouwd met WILLIAM de NORMANDY.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 932 te Normandie, France.

Kind(eren):

1. ADELE de NORMANDY  935-???? 
2. RICHARD de NORMANDY  932-996 

Notities over SPROTA de SENLIS

Sprota was the name of a Breton captive who William I, Duke of Normandy took as a wife in the Viking fashion (more danico) and by her had a son, Richard I, Duke of Normandy. After the death of her husband William, she became the wife of Esperleng and mother of Rodulf of Ivry.

The first mention of her is by Flodoard of Reims and although he doesn't name her he identifies her under the year [943] as the mother of "William’s son [Richard] born of a Breton concubine". Her Breton origins could mean she was of Celtic, Scandinavian, or Frankish origin, the latter being the most likely based on her name spelling. Elisabeth van Houts wrote "on this reference rests the identification of Sprota, William Longsword’s wife 'according to the Danish custom', as of Breton origin". The first to provide her name was William of Jumièges. The irregular nature (as per the Church) of her relationship with William served as the basis for her son by him being the subject of ridicule, the French King Louis "abused the boy with bitter insults", calling him "the son of a whore who had seduced another woman's husband."

At the time of the birth of her first son Richard, she was living in her own household at Bayeux, under William's protection. William, having just quashed a rebellion at Pré-de Bataille (c.936), received the news by a messenger that Sprota had just given birth to a son; delighted at the news William ordered his son to be baptized and given the personal name of Richard. William's steward Boto became the boy's godfather.

After the death of William Longsword and the captivity of her son Richard, she had been 'collected' from her dangerous situation by the 'immensely wealthy' Esperleng. Robert of Torigni identified Sprota's second husband as Esperleng, a wealthy landowner who operated mills at Pîtres.

By William I ‘Longsword’ she was the mother of:
Richard I, Duke of Normandy

By Esperling of Vaudreuil she was the mother of:
Rodulf, Count of Ivry
several daughters who married Norman magnates
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprota

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