Rollo (Gange-Rolf) Ragnvaldsson, of Normandy
Ca 846 - 932 (~ 86 år)-
Navn Rollo (Gange-Rolf) Ragnvaldsson Suffiks of Normandy Født Ca 846 Kjønn Mann Død 932 Person ID I502106 Haslund Sist endret 15 Jul 2019
Far Ragnvald Øysteinsson, Mørejarl, f. Ca 830, d. Ca 892, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland 
(Alder ~ 62 år) Mor Hild (Ragnhild) Rolfsdotter, d. Ja, ukjent dato Famile ID F500678 Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram
Familie Poppa of Bayeux, d. Ja, ukjent dato Barn 1. William I Longsword (Vilhjálmr Langaspjót) of Normandy, Duke of Normandy, f. Ca 893, d. 17 Des 942 (Alder ~ 49 år) 2. Adela (Geirlaug, Gerloc) of Normandy, f. 912, Rouen , d. 14 Okt 962 (Alder 50 år)Sist endret 15 Jul 2019 Famile ID F500728 Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram
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Notater Gange-Rolv (Göngu-Hrólfr) var en norsk vikinghøvding og sagafigur som egentlig het Hrólfr Rögnvaldsson (ca. 860-932) og var sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, kjent som jarlen som klippet Harald Hårfagre etter at Norge var samlet til ett rike.
Gange-Rolv fikk tilnavnet fordi han var så stor at han alltid måtte gå til fots, underforstått at hesten ble for liten. I følge norsk og islandsk tradisjon er denne personen identisk med den historiske Rollo, som i 911 ble utnevnt til hertug overNormandie[1]. Rollos opphav er imidlertid omdiskutert. I følge tradisjonen skal han være fra øya Vigra ved Ålesund.[2] En av dem som stiller seg bak de tidligere nevnte tradisjonene er Jón Viðar Sigurðsson[3]. En sannsynlig slektning,Vilhelm Erobreren av Normandie, inntok England i 1066 og grunnla et nytt normannisk kongehus der. Det er ikke bevart noen levninger etter Rollo, men høsten 2010 skal to av hans etterkommere gentestes for å slå fast hvor han har sitt opphav.[4]
Gange-Rolv var med på mange tokt i Austerled, men ble forvist fra landet av Harald Hårfagre etter et strandhogg han gjorde i Viken (Norge). I henhold til Snorre dro Rolv til Valland (Frankrike) etter landsforvisningen. Der ble han blant annet gift med kongsdatteren Gisela, og han skal ha blitt døpt i Saint Clair-katedralen.
Selv om Hrólfr deler navn med hovedpersonen i den høyst oppdiktede Soga om Gange-Rolv er det ellers ingen forbindelse mellom de to.
Rollo (c. 846 – c. 932), baptised Robert[1] and so sometimes numbered Robert I to distinguish him from his descendants, was a Norse Viking who was founder and first ruler of theViking principality which soon became known as Normandy. His descendants were the Dukes of Normandy, and following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, kings of England.
Name
The name "Rollo" is a Latin translation from the Old Norse name Hrólfr, modern Icelandic name Hrólfur and Scandinavian name Rolf (cf. the latinization of Hrólfr into the similar Roluo in the Gesta Danorum), but Norman people called him by his popular name Rou(f) (see Wace's Roman de Rou).[2] Sometimes his name is turned into the Frankish name Rodolf(us) orRadulf(us) or the French Raoul, that are derived from it.
Historical evidence
Started in the late 9th century, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the earliest record of Rollo. However, it does not mention his origins.
- A.D. 876. This year Rolla penetrated Normandy with his army; and he reigned fifty winters.[3]
Rollo was a powerful Viking leader of contested origin. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum,[4] tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who had two sons, Gurim and Rollo; upon his death, Rollo was expelled and Gurim killed. Dudo's chronicle, commissioned for Richard I, was finished, sometime after 1015,[5] for Richard II, whose sister, Emma, married the Danish King Cnut, in 1017. William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his continuation of Dudo's work, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, but states that he came from the Danish town ofFakse.
Norwegian and Icelandic historians, basing their research on medieval Norwegian and Icelandic sagas, identified Rollo instead with Ganger Hrolf (Hrolf, the Walker), a son of Rognvald Eysteinsson (fl. 865), Earl of Møre in Western Norway. The Latin Historia Norvegiae, written in Norway at the end of the 12th century, offers the oldest source of this version. This Hrolf fell foul of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair (c. 850 – c. 932, reigned c. 872 – 930), and became a Jarl in Normandy. The nickname "the Walker", "Ganger" in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.[6][7][8]
Geoffrey of Malaterra, in his The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria & Sicily & of Duke Robert Guiscard his brother claims Rollo "sailed boldly from Norway".[9]
The question of Rollo's origins became a matter of heated dispute between Norwegian and Danish historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the run-up to Normandy's millennium anniversary in 1911. Today, the debate continues.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo Rollo - Web content link:
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gange-Rolv Gange-Rolv