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participated in a Viking attack on Bayeux, where her father, COUNT
BERENGER, was killed. Rollo took Poppe as his "Danish wife".
Betty Rockswold posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL that:
. 'The historian Dudo wrote that among the defenders of Bayeau was
Count Berengar of Senlis. He was killed in the fighting and his daughter
Poppa was taken prisoner. Poppa was allotted to Duke Rollo. He
proceeded to contract with her for a "Danish marriage", which means he
would remain married to her as long as he lived in Normandy, but the
marriage would be null and void if he moved away, as she was taken as
"the spoils of war".
David Geen, Editor of "The American Genealogist postd to GEN-MEDIEVAL
on 12/09/99 that
. "Katherine Keats-Rohan, in her article article on "Poppa of Bayeux and
Her Family" in the 75th-anniversary issue of TAG (July-October 1997). . .
accepts, as I think do most scholars, the early identification of Poppa's
father as Berengar, marquis of Neustria. She then works with the
hypothesis that Poppa's name indicates descent from the Popponen, a
dynastic family that tended to bestow the name "Poppo" on the second
(or at least not the eldest) son. She proposes that Poppa was a
granddaughter of Heinrich of Thuringia and his wife Ingeltrude, daughter
of Louis the Pious [RIN 1212], which would give this family a Carolingian
descent; Heinrich was a brother of Poppo II. She suggests two hypotheses
for the connection between Heinrich and Poppa: Either Berengar of
Neustria or his wife Adalind was a child of Heinrich.
. Later commentary on the Popponen, with pedigree charts, appears in
Donald C. Jackman's _Criticism and Critique: Sidelights on the
Konradiner_ (Oxford, 1997), the first (and currently the only) volume in a
major series entitled _Prosopographica et Genealogica_, edited by K. S.
B. Keats-Rohan and Christian Settipani."