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  Custom Field:<_FA#> AKA Rolf (Rollo) the Ganger Ragnvaldsson of Norway.@@S005967 @@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db , her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
  Custom Fie ld:<_FA#> Acknowledged vassal by Charles the Simple & baptised (abt 911), per t he Treaty.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandm other)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Known as "The Old Pirate".  Count of Rouen by conqu est 876.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea i n 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmot her)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Banished from Norway by King Harald to the Hebrides a bt 876.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmoth er)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Called the "Ganger" as he was so large no horse could carry him & he had to walk@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in m y db, her grandmother)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Interred:  Notre Dame, Rouen, Franc e.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Ferocious disposition.  Charles the Simple could not beat h im.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 137 9 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Founder of Normandy.@@S005967@@Has her daughter of John Fitz Alan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
  REFN: 4261
  [G675.ged]
  Later sources id entify this Hrolf with Rollo of Normandy, an extremely
  doubtful identificatio n. It is unlikely that there was any close
  relationship between the early duk es of Normandy and the Orkney Jarls,
  and Rollo's parentage is unknown.
  Here are my notes on ROLLO, which I send in connection with a message sent
  by Stewa rt Baldwin in which he says he suspects I took my data from the
  "ridiculously unreliable Ancestral File" of the LDS.  As you can see, this
  isn't quite right .
  Gordon Fisher     gfisher@@shentel.net
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  27th ggf of Gordon Fisher
  Or:  HROLFR the GANGER (walker), GANGE-ROLV, ROLF, ROLLO OF NORMANDY;
  andlater in life, ROBERT; also HRO'LFR
  "The central fact of Norman history ... is ... the grant of Normandy and
  his
  northern followers in the year 911.  ...  For the actual occurences of
  that
  year, we have only the account of a romancing historian of a hundred years
  later, reenforced here and there by the exceedingly scanty records of t he
  time.  The main fact is clear, namely that the Frankish king, Charles the
  Simple, granted Rollo as a fief a considerable part, the eastern part, of
  late r Normandy.  Apparently Rollo did homage for his fied in feudal
  fashion
  by p lacing his hands between the hands of the king, something, we are
  told,
  whic h "neither his father, nor his grandfather, nor his great-grandfather
  before h im had ever done for any man."  Legend goes on to relate, however,
  that Rollo refused to kneel and kiss the king's foot, crying out in his
  own
  speech, "No , by God!" and that the companion to whom he delegated the
  unwelcome obligatio n performed it so clumsily that he overturned the king,
  to the great merriment of the assembled Northmen.  ...  As to Rollo's
  personality, we have only the evidence of later Norman historians of
  doubtful authority and the Norse saga o f HArold Fairhair.  If, as seems
  likely, their accounts relate to the same per son, he was known in the
  north
  as Hrolf the Ganger, because he was so huge t hat no horse could carry him
  and he must needs g

Details of Rolf (Rollo) Wend-a-Foot's family with Poppa de Valois de Normandy Dss of Normandy