Bérenger comté de Bayeux

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 121E:18, 1st Count of Normandy, banished from Normandy to the Hebrides. Took part in the Viking attck on Bayeux, where Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed, and his daughter Poppa captured and taken in 886, by Rollo as his "Danish" wife. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Bérenger From Stewart Baldwin.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Berenger, comté de Bayeux.
According to Orderic Vitalis, Rollo "stormed and captured Bayeux, slew its count Berengar and took to wife his daughter Poppa" [Chibnall, M. (ed. and trans.) The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, Vol. II, (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80), Book III, p. 7]. Berenger was married to a daughter of Pepin (Carolingian).

Bérenger married Mademoiselle du Vexin, daughter of Pépin Carolingien Comte de Senilis, Quentin et Vermandois and Unknown. ⁴⁹¹