Poppa de Senlis ¹

  General Notes:

Poppa of Bayeux (born circa 880), was the Christian wife or mistress [2] (perhaps more danico)[3] of the Viking conqueror Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword, Gerloc[4][5] and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy into a great fief of medieval France.[6] Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his panegyric of the Norman dukes, describes her as the daughter of a "Count Berengar", the dominant prince of that region, who was captured at Bayeux by Rollo in 885 or 889, shortly after the siege of Paris.[7] This has led to speculation that she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria.[8][9]

There are different opinions among medieval genealogy experts about Poppa's family. Christian Settipani says her parents were Guy de Senlis and Cunegundis, the daughter of Pepin, Count of Vermandois, and sister of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois.[10] Katherine Keats-Rohan states she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria by Adelind, whose father was Henry, Margrave of the Franks, or Adela of Vermandois.[11] Despite the uncertainty of her parentage, she undoubtedly was a member of the Frankish aristocracy.[12] A statue of Poppa stands at the Place de Gaulle in Bayeux.[13] ²

Poppa married Rollo "the Dane" 1st Duke of Normandy, Count of Rouen, son of Ragnvald "The Wise" I Øysteinssøn D'Aubigny Jarl of Møre; Le Diable and Ragnhilda Hrólfsdóttir. (Rollo "the Dane" 1st Duke of Normandy, Count of Rouen was born in 846 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway and died on 17 Dec 931 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.)