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    1. Re: Poppa de Bayeux, daughter of Berengar de Bayeux or not?
    2. Peter Stewart via
    3. On 30/05/2016 10:41 PM, Kathy Becker via wrote: > Is there a consensus among the experts here that this is true? Or false? The conflicting sources that I have read so far leaves the question open. There is definitely not a consensus about this - the ultimate source for "Popa" as a wife of Rollo is Dudo of Saint-Quentin, a notoriously divisive figure considered by many historians to be a fantasist and something of a pest. Dame Jinty Nelson wrote in 2011: "It is high time that historians stopped citing Dudo, with however many qualifications, as supplying any evidence at all for Rollo's wives or mistresses." It is by no means certain that Dudo's "Popa" even existed, much less that her father was Berengar. Peter Stewart

    05/30/2016 05:02:13