Guillaume I 'Longsword' 2nd Duc de Normandie 2
- Born: Abt 900, Normandie, France 1
- Marriage: Sprote de Bretagne about 932 in Normandie, France 1
- Died: 17 Dec 942, Normandie, France about age 42 1
 General Notes:
Son of Rollo and second duke of Normandy. 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.
He was married a second time, with Luitgard of Vermandois. He is entombed in the cathedral in Rouen.
Acceded: Duke of Normandy, 927.
[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]
Guillaume married Sprote de Bretagne, daughter of Héribert I Comte de Vermandois, about 932 in Normandie, France.1 (Sprote de Bretagne was born about 911 in Bretagne, France 1.)
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