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.

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.

In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered.

Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum, tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who had two sons, Gurim and Rollo ; upon his death, Rollo was expelled and Gurim killed.

' Even though Rollo had converted to Christianity, some of his prior religious roots surfaced at the end.

Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad became " Zoot Horn Rollo ", and Boston became " Rockette Morton ", while John French assumed the name " Drumbo ", and Jeff Cotton became " Antennae Jimmy Semens ".

In 911 Charles defeated the Viking leader Rollo, had him sign the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte that made Rollo his vassal and converted him to Christianity.

Fred will often make disrespectful remarks towards Rollo, usually stating that he thinks Rollo is a criminal, as Rollo had spent time in jail.

In early 1974, after the recording of the uncharacteristically mainstream Unconditionally Guaranteed album, the tensions between Captain Beefheart and bandmembers Bill Harkleroad ( Zoot Horn Rollo ), Mark Boston ( Rockette Morton ) and Art Tripp III ( Ed Marimba ) had finally reached a breaking point, and the three members left Beefheart's Magic Band.

He had married Hesilia ( Helise or Elisee ) Crispin de Brionne, a great-grand daughter of Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy.

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.

In 911 he, with two other French commanders were aligned in opposition to Rollo, a Danish invader who had plundered the countryside.

Louis kept Richard in confinement at Lâon, but he escaped with the assistance of Osmond de Centville, Bernard de Senlis ( who had been a companion of Rollo of Normandy ), Ivo de Bellèsme, and Bernard the Dane ( ancestor of families of Harcourt and Beaumont ).

Rollo had asked Maxi to write a song about frustration, which was something to which Maxi could relate from his own experiences.

Thus, for the first time since it had been given as a duchy to Rollo in 911, Normandy was directly ruled by the French king.

In the month of October 1814, Major General Sir Rollo Gillespie of the British army had advanced along with 3, 500 troops and eleven pieces of cannon to occupy the Nepali territories situated between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in the Gharwal and Kumaon regions that had been occupied by the Nepali forces.

Despite the fact that four years had passed since her last album, the first single from the album, the title track, reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart on the strength of remixes by Johnny Vicious, Junior Vasquez and Rollo.

With Karl-Kuno Rollo Graf von Coudenhove ( 1887-1940 ), she had her only child, Elisabeth Maria Karl ( called Liesl ) ( 1903-1979 ).

The actor David Niven later claimed that he had introduced Laycock to the Commandos, as Laycock was related to his wife Primula Susan Rollo.

In 885, Rollo was one of the lesser leaders of the Viking fleet which besieged Paris under Sigfred.

Rollo of Normandy then lifts his siege of Paris.

After participating in many Viking incursions along the Seine, culminating in the siege of Paris in 886, Rollo was finally defeated by King Charles the Simple.

* Siege of Paris ( 885 – 886 ), by the Vikings under Rollo

With his followers ( known as Normans or northmen ), Rollo invades the area of northern France, and besieges Paris.

Stephen Orlac is on a train journey from Fontainebleau to Paris, where he sees murderer Rollo the Knife thrower ( Edward Brophy ), who is on the way to his execution by guillotine.

During the reign of Charles the Simple ( 898 – 922 ), Normans under Rollo from Norway, were settled in an area on either side of the River Seine, downstream from Paris, that was to become Normandy.

* 911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres.

* 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.

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.

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.

On 20 July 911, at the Battle of Chartres, they defeated Rollo despite the absence of many French barons and also the absence of the French King Charles the Simple.

In the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte ( 911 ) with King Charles, Rollo pledged feudal allegiance to the king, changed his name to the Frankish version, and converted to Christianity, probably with the baptismal name Robert.

After 911, Rollo stayed true to his word of defending the shores of the Seine river in accordance to the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, however he also continued to act like a Viking chief with attacks on Flanders.

From their first incursion into the lower valley of the Seine in 841, the Vikings overran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by Rollo ( Hrolfr ), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 911.

In 911, the French Carolingian ruler Charles the Simple allowed a group of Vikings under their leader Rollo to settle in Normandy as part of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte.

The settlers spoke Old Norse and their settlement was legitimised and made permanent in 911 under Rollo of Normandy, but this influence was very limited and almost only concerned the technological vocabulary of the navy.

Normandy began as a fief, probably as a county, in 911 by the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and Rollo, leader of the Vikings known as Northmen ( or in Latin Nortmanni ).

The fiefdom of Normandy was created in 911 for the Viking leader Rollo ( also known as Rolf ).

* Rollo, Duke of Normandy ( 911 – 927 )

He halted his actions when the Carolingian king Charles III of France, called " Charles the Simple ," abandoned the part of the territory that Rollo occupied under the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 911.

The Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte was signed in the autumn of 911 between Charles III of France and Rollo, the leader of the Vikings, to settle the Normans in Neustria and to protect Charles ' kingdom from any new invasion by the " northmen ".

In 911 the Norseman Gongu Hrolf ( also known as Hrolf Walker as he was reportedly too big to have a horse carry him and Rollo ) met Charles the Simple and agreed the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte where it was agreed the Hrolf would convert to Christianity and become Charles ' vassal in return for being created Duke of Normandy.