Guillaume (Normandie) de Normandie (abt. 900 - 942)

Born about 0900 in Normandie, France

Descendants

Died 17 Dec 0942 at about age 42 in Picquigny, Somme, Picardie, France

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Biography

William (Longsword) Longu-Espee, 2nd Duke of Normandy

d. c.942^[1]

bur. Rouen Cathedral

Parents

Rollo and ____

Marriage and Issue

m.1 Sprota.^[2][3] Issue: 1

• RICHARD (Fécamp [932]-20 Nov 996, bur Fécamp)^[4]

m.2 935 LUITGARDIS de Vermandois. No issue.^[2][5]

Occupation

• 928 or after succeeded father^[6]

• Late 930s: Frankish royal politics, first because of his war with Arnulf of Flanders, and then because of his support for Louis IV (d'Outremer) at a time when Louis' star seemed to be fading.^[7]

• 933: first appears as the leader of the Normans in the year 933^[8]

Art History

In December 942, at the peak of his good relations with Louis, Arnulf called for a peace conference with William; there, William was murdered (traditionally, Arnulf is said to have arranged the murder).

A Planctus (mourning poem) was composed probably shortly after William's death; Jules Lair suggests plausibly if not definitively that it was in 943. (Catalog references: Chevalier 10576; Walther 10205; Schaller & Ewald Könsgen 8813; Yearley L81.) This poem, although it survives only in corrupt and incomplete versions and is largely hagiographic in content, nevertheless is a critical source for early Norman history. It is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from a Norman point of view, and some historical nuggets can be gleaned from it.

There is a 13th-century bust which, according to tradition, is that of William Longsword. It is found in the Musâee de l'Abbaye, logis abbatiale de Jumiáeges.

Sources

1. ↑ killed at the instigation of Arnulf I of Flanders (Flodoard's Annals, s.a. 943: MGH SS 3, 389, van Houts 47)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cawley, C. (2006). Medieval Lands v.3. [fmg.ac
3. ↑ p. Unknown; m. Esperleng de Pîtres
4. ↑ succeeded father as RICHARD I "Sans Peur" Comte de Normandie
5. ↑ p. HERIBERT II Comte de Vermandois and Adela [Capet] (ante 925-14 Nov after 985. bur. Abbaye de Saint-Père; m.2 Thibaut I Comte de Blois (Cawley, 2006)
6. ↑ Rollo's last known appearance in the records, see Flodoard's Annals, s.a. 928: MGH SS 3, 378, van Houts 45
7. ↑ When the Bretons rebelled c.930, he subdued them, taking Brittany, Channel Islands, Contentin, and Averanchin.
8. ↑ Flodoard's Annals, s.a. 933: MGH SS 3, 381, van Houts 45

See also:

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 485
• Wikipedia: William I of Normandy
• fmg.ac
• Space: Flodoardi Chronicon Reims : Regnier, 1855) Records his murder in 943, arranged by Count Arnulf of Flanders
• Ademari Historiarum III.33, MGH SS IV, p. 131.

Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber III, II, p. 234.

• Flodoard 943, MGH SS III, p. 389. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Chapter 27. Orderic Vitalis, Vol. II, Book III, p. 9. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber III, XI, XII, p. 238. Kerrebrouck, P. Van (2000) Les Capétiens 987-1328 (Villeneuve d'Asq), p. 50 footnote 6. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber IV, II, III, IV, pp. 239-40. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Chapters 44-45.

Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Chapter 43.

• Kerrebrouck (2000), p. 47. Chavanon, J. (ed.) (1897) Adémar de Chabannes, Chronique (Paris), Book III, 27, and Rodolfus Glauber, Life of William Volpiano, 7.
• Houts (2000), p. 102. Bonnin, T. (ed.) (1870) Cartulaire de Louviers (Evreux) ("Louviers"), Tome I, I, p. 1. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber IV, XX, p. 249.
• Brevis Relatio de Origine Willelmi Conquestoris, p. 14. Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum continet Actus 5, MGH SS IX, p. 383. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber IV, X, XII, pp. 243-4. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber IV, XVIII, p. 247. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXXVI, p. 311. Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber IV, XVIII, p. 247. Robert de Torigny, Book VIII c. 36.
• Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 998, MGH SS XXIII, p. 777.
• Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 121E-19. Cit. Date: 30 Jul 2009.
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30273219