On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 1:31:30 AM UTC+10, Stewart Baldwin via wrote: > On 7/7/2016 10:12 AM, taf via wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 6:36:56 AM UTC-7, Paulo Canedo wrote: > > > >> Well Rollo´s son contemporany Planctus states (without naming her) that > >> she was a Christian, and that her son William was born overseas. > > This was said about William's (generic) mother, not about Dudo's > > Poppa in particular. It is probably a mistake to assume that they refer > > to the same person. > > For what it is worth, Dudo does state that Poppa was William's mother. > This is not necessarily inconsistent with the statement of the Planctus, > but it would also be wrong to say that the Planctus supports Dudo's > statements about William's mother. Dudo and the Planctus are flatly at odds over where and when William was born - according to Dudo this was at Rouen ("Willelmus ... Rotomagensi urbe exstitit oriundus") after Rollo had settled there and converted to Christianity, whereas according to the Planctus it was overseas while Rollo was still a pagan ("Hic [Willelmus], in orbe transmarino natus patre | in errore paganorum permanente"). Peter Stewart