Hvem giftet seg med Rollo av Normandie?

Rollo (født ca. 860, død ca. 928 var en vikinghøvding som styrte et område i det som senere ble kjent som Normandie fra ca. 911 til sin død. Rollo ble stamfar til den normanniske herskerslekten, hertugene av Normandie, og kan ha vært identisk med Gange-Rolv.

Navnet Rollo er et frankisk-latinsk navn som stammer fra det norrøne navnet Hrolfr (Rolv) (jamfør latiniseringen av Hrolfr Kraki til Roluo i Gesta Danorum). I noen nyere kilder blir han også omtalt som Robert av Normandie.

Poppa of Bayeux (French: [pɔpa d(ə) bɛjø]; born c. 880) was the wife more danico of the Viking leader Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword and Gerloc, and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy into a great fief of medieval France. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his panegyric of the Norman dukes, describes her as the daughter of a "Count Berengar", the dominant prince of that region, who was captured at Bayeux by Rollo in 885 or 889, shortly after the siege of Paris. This has led to speculation that she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria.

There are different opinions among medieval genealogy experts about Poppa's family. Christian Settipani says her parents were Guy de Senlis and Cunegundis, the daughter of Pepin, Count of Vermandois, and sister of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois. Katherine Keats-Rohan states she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria by Adelind, whose father was Henry, Margrave of the Franks, or Adela of Vermandois. Her parentage is uncertain and may have been invented after the fact to legitimize her son's lineage, as many of the fantastic genealogical claims made by Dudo were. Based on her separate more danico status that differentiates her from Rollo's Christian wife Gisela of France, Poppa's family was unlikely to have been powerful Christian nobility who would have insisted—by force if necessary—on a legal and monogamous Christian marriage for their daughter. Poppa was likely a common woman taken from a country with which the Norse had trade contact.

A statue of Poppa stands at the Place de Gaulle in Bayeux.

Gisela (en français : Gisèle ; fl. 911) est un personnage, peut-être fictif, qui aurait été une princesse mariée à Rollon, duc de Normandie.

Selon la tradition, Rollon aurait été fiancé à Gisela, fille du roi de Francie occidentale, Charles le Simple, après sa conversion au christianisme qui aurait permis son accession au titre de duc de Normandie en 911. Ni le mariage ni même l'existence de Gisela ne sont confirmés. Des historiens ont émis l'hypothèse que, si elle a réellement existé, elle pouvait avoir été une fille illégitime de Charles.

Un personnage du nom de Gisla (présenté comme une fille de Charles le Chauve plutôt que de son petit-fils Charles le Simple, et comme la mère des enfants de Rollon) est interprété dans la série Vikings par Morgane Polanski.