Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameGuillaume I "Longue Epâee" Duke de Normandie 
BirthBET ABT 891 AND 900, Normandie, Neustria
Death17 Dec 942, France
FatherRolf "the Ganger" (Robert-Rollo) Ragnvaldsson , 1st Duke de Normandie (~846-~931)
Spouses
Marriageabt 932, Normandie, France
ChildrenRichard I "Sans Peur" (933-996)
Marriage935
Notes for Guillaume I "Longue Epâee" Duke de Normandie
William I
d. Dec. 17, 942, Picardy [France]also called WILLIAM LONGSWORD, French GUILLAUME LONGUE-ÉPÉE, son of Rollo and second duke of Normandy (927-942). He sought continually to expand his territories either by conquest or by exacting new lands from the French king for the price of homage. In 939 he allied himself with Hugh the Great in the revolt against King Louis IV; through the mediation of the pope, the war ended, and Louis renewed William's investiture of Normandy (940). William, however, continued his territorial ambitions, especially northward. Drawn to a conference on an island in the Somme River, he was assassinated on the orders of the count of Flanders, Arnulf I.
William I "Longsword" the 2nd Duke Of Normandie
b. 0891, Normandy, France
d. 17 Dec 0942, France, Age: 51
d. Dec. 17, 942, Picardy [France]also called WILLIAM LONGSWORD, French GUILLAUME LONGUE-ÉPÉE, son of Rollo and second duke of Normandy (927-942). He sought continually to expand his territories either by conquest or by exacting new lands from the French king for the price of homage. In 939 he allied himself with Hugh the Great in the revolt against King Louis IV; through the mediation of the pope, the war ended, and Louis renewed William's investiture of Normandy (940). William, however, continued his territorial ambitions, especially northward. Drawn to a conference on an island in the Somme River, he was assassinated on the orders of the count of Flanders, Arnulf I.
William I "Longsword" the 2nd Duke Of Normandie
b. 0891, Normandy, France
d. 17 Dec 0942, France, Age: 51
Notes for Sprote (Spouse 1)
Sprota (Adela) Of Senlis
Hubert I (Herbert) Senlis, Count Of Senlis & Count Of Vermandois
Senlis, Sprota (Adela) of
Born: Bretagne, Normandy
Father: Senlis, Hubert I Count of, Count of Senlis, b. ABT 850
Associated with Normandy, William I LONGSWORD of, Duke of Normany 2nd
Child 1: Normandy, Richard I the Fearless of, Duke of Normandy 3rd, b. 933
Child 2: D'Ivry, Raoul
Notes:
Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (121E:19), a Breton.
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (166:35) adds that Sprota was a "Breton captive".
"Todd A. Farmerie" posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@@rootsweb.com on 05 Dec 1997
Subject: Re: Wm. FitzOsbern/Wm. the Conqueror: I know of no contemporary source which provides the parents of Sprota. Speculation has placed her among the family of the Counts of Senlis, because BERNARD OF SENLIS (RIN 1183) is called uncle of RICHARD I. However, a second source says the same of WILLIAM LONGSWORD, suggesting that if true, the link was through POPPA. (Sprota's status as mistress of WILLIAM also makes it unlikely that she came from a family of such status.)
Hubert I (Herbert) Senlis, Count Of Senlis & Count Of Vermandois
Senlis, Sprota (Adela) of
Born: Bretagne, Normandy
Father: Senlis, Hubert I Count of, Count of Senlis, b. ABT 850
Associated with Normandy, William I LONGSWORD of, Duke of Normany 2nd
Child 1: Normandy, Richard I the Fearless of, Duke of Normandy 3rd, b. 933
Child 2: D'Ivry, Raoul
Notes:
Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (121E:19), a Breton.
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (166:35) adds that Sprota was a "Breton captive".
"Todd A. Farmerie" posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@@rootsweb.com on 05 Dec 1997
Subject: Re: Wm. FitzOsbern/Wm. the Conqueror: I know of no contemporary source which provides the parents of Sprota. Speculation has placed her among the family of the Counts of Senlis, because BERNARD OF SENLIS (RIN 1183) is called uncle of RICHARD I. However, a second source says the same of WILLIAM LONGSWORD, suggesting that if true, the link was through POPPA. (Sprota's status as mistress of WILLIAM also makes it unlikely that she came from a family of such status.)
Notes for Vermandois (Spouse 2)
Married BEF 945 to Theobald I of Blois, Count of Blois
Child 1: , Odo I of Blois, Count of Blois, b. 950
Child 2: , Emma of Blois, b. CIR 950
Child 3: , Theobald of Blois
Child 4: , Hugo of Blois, Archbishop of Bourges
Child 1: , Odo I of Blois, Count of Blois, b. 950
Child 2: , Emma of Blois, b. CIR 950
Child 3: , Theobald of Blois
Child 4: , Hugo of Blois, Archbishop of Bourges