Guy OF VERMANDOIS 
Guy was born in 0948. Guy's father was Albert I "The Pious" OF VERMANDOIS and his mother was Princess/ Gerberge OF LORRAINE. His paternal grandparents were Count/ Hurbert II OF VERMANDOIS and Adela DE PARIS OF NEUSTRIA; his maternal grandparents were Giselbert DE LORRAINE and Princess/ Gerberge OF GERMANY. He had a brother named Herbert III. He was the older of the two children.General Notes
Credited with the first unification of the country, convertedthe Danes to Christianity, and conquered Norway. After hisBaptism his fathers pagan tomb was transformed into a Christianplace of worship.
Introduced Christianity into Denmark, he had the famous Jellingrune stone erected in his parent memory. He was fatally woundedduring a rebellion by his son and successor, Sveng I.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0845 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0939 in Murdered under orders of Clovis I
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 Feb 0930 in St. Quentin, France
- b.0855
- b.0915
- b.0820 d.0923
- b.0890
- b.0853
- b.0948
- b.0846 d.0916
- b.0890 in France d.21 Oct 0939 in Echternach, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.0860 d.> 0916
- b.0932
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany
- b.0913 in Saxony d.0984
- b.0895 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany d.0968 in Quedlinburg, Germany
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They had a daughter named Aelis.
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