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Household of William I Longsword Normandy

He is married to Adela Sprota de Senlis de Bretagne of Normandy.

They got married at Normandy, France.


Child(ren):

  2. Richard I Normandy  938-1027 


Notes about William I Longsword Normandy

William I,also calledWilliam Longsword, French Guillaume Longue-épée(died Dec. 17, 942, Picardy [France]), son of Rollo and second duke of Normandy (927–942). He sought continually to expand his territories either by conquest or by exacting new lands from the French king for the price of homage. In 939 he allied himself with Hugh the Greatin the revolt against King Louis IV;through the mediation of the pope, the war ended, and Louis renewed William’s investiture of Normandy (940). William, however, continued his territorial ambitions, especially northward. Drawn to a conference on an island in the Somme River, he was assassinated on the orders of the count of Flanders, Arnulf I.

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  2. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

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