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* Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, tragedy ( c. 1616 24 ; printed 1639 ).
* Rollo, occasionally known as Rollo the Viking, ( c. 860-c. 932 ), founder and first ruler of Normandy
* Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo ( c. 1680 1758 )
* Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo ( c. 1703 1765 )
Sometimes known as Robert II, with Rollo of Normandy, c. 860 c.
* Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, tragedy ( c. 1617 ; revised 1627 30?

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In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.
Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.
* 911 Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
* 911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
Later in the year Twiddle's ex-pupil, " boy prodigy " Rollo Rhubarb joined them.
The ever-smug Rollo is always trying to outwit Hans and Fritz, but his cunning plans often backfire.
In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.
Rollo had besieged Paris but in 911 entered vassalage to the king of the West Franks, Charles the Simple, through the Treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte.
In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered.
The descendants of Rollo and his followers adopted the local Gallo-Romantic language and intermarried with the area's original inhabitants.
In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign ( 1758 ) General Jeffery Amherst ordered Colonel Andrew Rollo to capture the island.
Under his reign the Normans of Rollo were evangelized.
* Pie Menus for Windows, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Nov., 1992, pp 30 39, by Carl Rollo.
* Pie Menus Demonstration in Java, by Carl Rollo.
In 911, French King Charles the Simple was able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain of disputed Norwegian or Danish origins.
Charles gave Rollo the title of duke and granted him and his followers possession of Normandy.
In return, Rollo swore fealty to Charles, converted to Christianity, and undertook to defend the northern region of France against the incursions of other Viking groups.
* Rollo of Normandy, founder of Normandy.
William was a Norman French-speaking fifth-generation descendant of the Viking war-leader Rollo, the first Scandinavian ruler of Normandy ; but Norman historians since Dudo of St. Quentin still celebrated the old Norse heritage of the ducal dynasty.
Permanent Scandinavian settlement occurred before 911, when an agreement was reached between Rollo, one of the Viking leaders, and King Charles the Simple of France, surrendering the county of Rouen to Rollo.
Rollo of Normandy then lifts his siege of Paris.
Rollo has multiple meanings.

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After a whirlwind two-week romance in 1940, Niven married Primula Susan Rollo ( 18 February 1918, London 21 May 1946, Beverly Hills, California ), the aristocratic daughter of a British lawyer.
William Camden wrote that the Normans were first called bigots, when their Duke Rollo, who when receiving Gisla, daughter of King Charles, in marriage, and with her the investiture of the dukedom, refused to kiss the king's foot in token of subjection unless the king would hold it out for that specific purpose.
Rollo May ( April 21, 1909 October 22, 1994 ) was an American existential psychologist.
* Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie ( 1766 1814 ) was born in a large house on the south side of Comber's main square.
** Edmund Alfred Rollo George Hay-Drummond, Viscount Dupplin ( 1879 1903 )
* Andrew Rollo, 1st Lord Rollo ( 1577 1659 )
* James Rollo, 2nd Lord Rollo ( 1600 1669 )
* John Rollo, 6th Lord Rollo ( 1708 1783 )
* James Rollo, 7th Lord Rollo ( 1738 1784 )
* John Rollo, 8th Lord Rollo ( 1773 1846 )
* William Rollo, 9th Lord Rollo ( 1809 1852 )

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It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway, and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo ( Hrólfr ), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.
All the buildings perished during a Viking raid in the 9th century, Rollo was baptized here in 915 and buried in 931, Richard I further enlarged it in 950, St. Romain's tower was built in 1035.

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