From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poppa of Bayeux Statue de Poppa de Bayeux.jpg Poppa of Bayeux's statue, Place de Gualle, Bayeux Born c. 880[1] Bayeux, West Francia Noble family House of Normandy (by marriage) Spouse(s) Rollo (perhaps more danico) Issue William I Longsword Gerloc (baptismal name Adela) Father Berengar II of Neustria or Guy de Senlis Mother Adelind, Adela of Vermandois or Cunegundis Poppa of Bayeux (French: [pɔpa d(ə) bɛjø]; born c. 880 AD), was the wife more danico[2]'[3] of the Viking conqueror Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword, Gerloc[4][5] and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy into a great fief of medieval France.[6] 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.[7] This has led to speculation that she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria.[8][9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12] A statue of Poppa stands at the Place de Gaulle in Bayeux.[