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Personal data William I "Longsword" (William I "Longsword") Ragnvaldsson (Viking Count of Rouen) 

Sources 1, 2
  • First name William I "Longsword".
  • He was born on August 28, 893 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, Kingdom of France.Sources 1, 2
    Old Norse name: " Vilhjálmr Langaspjót". William was a member of The Royal House of "NORMANDY"
  • He was baptized in the year 912 in Kingdom of France.
    He was baptized a Christian probably at the same time as his father, which Orderic Vitalis stated was in 912 and by Franco, Archbishop of Rouen
  • (Direct Ancestor) in the year 893.
  • He died on December 17, 942 in Island Picquigny, Somme River, Normandy, Kingdom of France, he was 49 years old.Sources 1, 2
    He was assassinated in France, on the orders of the count of Flanders, Arnulf I.
  • He is buried in the year 942 in Rouen Cathedral, Kingdom of France.Source 2
  • A child of Rollo Ragnvaldsson and Poppa "De Bayeux" (Duchess of Normandy) (29th GGM)

Household of William I "Longsword" (William I "Longsword") Ragnvaldsson (Viking Count of Rouen)

(1) He is married to Adela of "Bretagne" Sprota.

They got married in the year 930 at Kingdom of France, he was 36 years old.


Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Luitgarde "Of Vermandois" (Countess of Vermandois).

They got married in the year 940, he was 46 years old.

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Sources

  1. Millennium File, Heritage Consulting / Ancestry.com
  2. International, Find A Grave Index for Select Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

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