Duke Guillaume I (Longue Epaee) Normandy (Wilhelm Langschwert) 
Guillaume I, known as Longue Epaee, was born in 0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France.1 Longue Epaee's father was 1st Duke of Normandy Rollo (The Strong, The Ganger) Rognvaldsson and his mother was Poppa de Bayeux. His paternal grandparents were Earl of More and Romsdal Rognvald (The Wise) Eysteinsson I and Countess of More Ragnhild (Hilda) Hrolfsdottir; his maternal grandparents were Berenger de Bayeux and Miss de Rennes. He had two brothers and four sisters, named Robert, David, Gerletta, Blanche or Adelaide, Kathlin and Crispina. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Walter and Adela. He died at the age of 42 on December 17th, 0942 in Picardy, France.General Notes
# Note:
William I, "Longsword", b. ca. 891 probably Rouen, c. 927 succeeded to Duchy of Normandy, c. 930 the Bretons rebelled, he subdued them, taking Brittany, the Channel Islands, the Contentin, and the Averanchin; killed in treacherous ambush 17 Dec 942 by servants of Theobald of Blois and Arnulf of Flanders. He m. (1) (Danish wife) Sprota, a Breton; m. (2) Luitgarde de Vermandois, n.i. [no issue], killed 942 by Louis, son of Charles III "the Simple", daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois and Troyes. [Ancestral Roots]
Note: There is an apparent error in Luitgarde's death date of 942. See notes under her. I think the clause ",killed 942 by Louis, son of Charles III "the simple" belongs to William's death and not to Luitgarde's, even though she is the subject of the sentence before & after the clause. I am going to remove the death date as a sourced alternative. It is an obvious error.
# Note: Assassinated by Arnulf/Arnulph/Arnoul "The Old", Count of Flanders, in 942, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 16, pg. 493, Article: NORMANDY
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0750 in Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d.0800 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway
- b.0770 in Oppland, Norway
- b.0753 in Holtum, Vestfold, Norway
- b.0820 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0872
- b.0738 in Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- b.0785 in Trondheim, Trondelag, Norway
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- b.0852 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0890 in Orkney, Scotland
- b.0780 in Vestfold, Norway d.0840
- b.0816 in Vestfold, Norway d.0850
<Unknown>
- b.0834 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
<Unknown>
- b.0872 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandie, Neustria
- b.0780 in Vestfold, Norway d.0840
- b.0816 in Vestfold, Norway d.0850
<Unknown>
- b.0826 in Norway
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- b.0858 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.0834 in Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.0847 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France d.0886 in Viking attack at Bayeaux, Normandy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Neustria
- b.0765 in Upper Alsace, France d.20 Oct 0837 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Touraine/Centre, France
- b.0800 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.0853
- b.0779 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France d.0837 in Fezensac, France
- b.0825 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.0877 in Rennes, Bretagne, France
- b.0855
- b.0772 in Brittany, France d.0851
- b.0800 in Brittany, France d.Nov 0857
<Unknown>
- b.0825 in Brittany, France
<Unknown>
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Details of Longue Epaee's family with Sprote Adela de Senlis
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