Ganger Rolf "the Viking" 1st Count of Normandy
- Born: Bet 860 and 870, Maer, Norway
- Marriage: Poppa de Bayeux in 886
- Died: 929
- Buried: Notre Dame, Rouen, France
 Another name for Ganger was Rollo.
Research Notes:
Source: familysearch.org (Kevin Bradford) has d. 927-932.
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 121E-18. "GANGER ROLF, "the Viking" (or ROLLO), 1st Count of Normandy, banished from Norway to the Hebrides abt 876, 890 participated in Viking attack on Bayeux, where Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed, and his dau. Poppa captured and taken 886, by Rollo (now called Count of Rouen) as his 'Danish' wife. Under Treaty of St. Claire, 911, rec'd the County of Normandy from CHARLES III, (148017) 'the Simple'; d. 929, bur. Notre Dame, Rouen."
Ganger married Poppa de Bayeux, daughter of Count Berenger of Bayeux and Unknown, in 886. (Poppa de Bayeux was born abt 0872 in Bayeux, France.)
Marriage Notes:
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 121E-18 (Ganger Rolf).
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