Rollo biography

Viking, Count of Rouen from 911 to 928

For other uses, see Rollo (disambiguation).

Rollo (Norman: Rou, Rolloun; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died 933), also known with his epithet, Rollo "the Walker",^[4] was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France.

He emerged as a leading warrior figure among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine after the Siege of Chartres in 911. Charles the Simple, king of West Francia, in what is called the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, granted Rollo lands between the river Epte and the sea in exchange for Rollo agreeing to end his brigandage, swearing allegiance to him, religious conversion and a pledge to defend the Seine's estuary from other Viking raiders.^[6]

Rollo's life has been depicted in Dudo of St.

Quentin's account. He has been analyzed by European scholars such as W. Vogel,