- Emma Of Normandy
Emma (c. 985-March 6, 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire), was daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second wife Gunnora. She was twice a Queen consort of the Kingdom of England, by the successive marriages, of herself, like her mother, as the second wife, to Ethelred the Unready of England, (1002-1016), and, to Canute the Great of Denmark, (1017-1035). Two of her sons, one by each husband, and two step-sons, also by each husband, … - Rollo Of Normandy
Rollo (c. 860 - c. 932) was the founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy. He is also in some sources known as "Robert of Normandy". The name Rollo is a Frankish-Latin name probably taken from Scandinavian name Hrólf (cf. the latinization of Hrólf Kraki into the similar "Roluo" in the "Gesta Danorum"). - William I of Normandy I of Normandy
William Longsword (born 893, in Normandy, France died December 17, 942, in Normandy) was jarl (ruler) of Normandy. He is considered as the second duke of Normandy, even if this title was not existing at the time. Little is known about his early years. He was born in Bayeux or Rouen. His parents were Rollo and Poppa. All that is known of Poppa is that she was a Christian, and the daughter to Berengar of Rennes, … - Richard I of Normandy I of Normandy
Richard I of Normandy (born 28 August 933, in Fecamp Normandy, France died November 20, 996, in Fecamp) was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996; he is considered the first to actually have held that title. He was called Richard "the Fearless" (French, "Sans Peur"). - Adela Of Normandy
Adela of Normandy also known as Adela of Blois and Adela of England (c. 1062 or 1067 - March 8, 1137?) was by marriage countess of Blois, Chartres, and Meaux. She was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. She was also the mother of both Stephen, King of England and Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester. Her birthdate is generally believed to have been between 1060 and 1064; however, … - Adelaide Of Normandy
Princess Adelaide of Normandy (c. 1026 in Calvados, France - c. 1090) was the sister of William the Conqueror. She was the daughter of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, and Harlette de Falaise. Adelaide married three times; first Enguerrand II of Ponthieu (died 1053) by whom she had no issue; second Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054); and third Odo II of Champagne son of the Count of Troyes. By Lambert she had a daughter, Judith of Lens, who married Waltheof, … - Edward The Confessor
St Edward the Confessor or "Eadweard III" (c. 1004-5 January 1066), son of Ethelred the Unready, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England and the last of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 until his death. His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England and the aggrandisement of the great territorial earls, and it foreshadowed the country's later connection with Normandy, … - Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) | The famous "Desert Fox" commander of the North African campaign was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm on Nov. 15, 1891. While earning the respect of both sides in WWII, Rommel became disillusioned with Hitler. Although the Nazis accused him of being involved in the abortive July 20, 1944 bombing/assassination attempt against Hitler, his active role in the plot is doubtful. - Charles The Simple
Charles III (September 17, 879 - October 7, 929), called the Simple (contemporary Latin: "simplex", meaning "straightforward, uncomplicated", not "dimwitted, stupid"), was a member of the Carolingian dynasty who ruled as King of France (or Western Francia) from 893 to 922/923. He was the posthumous son of King Louis the Stammerer and his third wife Adelaide of Paris. Charles first married Frederonne who died in 917 and then Eadgifu, … - Christian Dior
Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 - October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer. He was born in Granville, Manche, Normandy, France. Dior boutiques can be found in numerous cities around the world with their main US flagship stores in New York, Beverly Hills, Waikiki, Houston, Short Hills, New Jersey, Boston, and San Francisco. - Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (born May 11, 1978 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy) is a French supermodel and actress. - Richard
Richard was a 12th century bishop of Dunkeld. He got the bishopric of Dunkeld, the second most prestigious bishopric in Scotland-north-of-the-Forth, after serving the King of Scots. He was "capellanus Regis Willelmi", that is, chaplain of King William of Scotland, and had probably been the chaplain to William during the reign of King Máel Coluim IV. He was consecrated at St Andrews on August 10 1170, by Richard, … - John Steele
Private John Steele was the American paratrooper made famous in the movie, "The Longest Day" who landed in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first village in Normandy liberated by the Americans on D-Day, June 6, 1944. - Saint Aubert
St. Aubert was bishop of Avranches in the 8th century and is credited with founding Mont Saint Michel. He lived in France during the reign of Childebert III (695-711) and died in 720. According to legend, in 708 he had a vision in which the Archangel Michael instructed him to build an oratory on the rocky tidal island at the mouth of the River Couesnon. Aubert did not pay attention to this vision at first, until in exasperation Michael appeared to him again, … - Herleva
Herleva also known as Arlette, Arletta, and Herlève, was the mother of William I of England. The background of Herleva and the circumstances of William's birth are shrouded in mystery. The written evidence dates from a generation or two later, and is not entirely consistent. The most commonly accepted version says that she was the daughter of a tanner named Fulbert from the small Norman town of Falaise, where they lived. - Jeremy Davies
Jeremy Davies (b. October 8 1969, Traverse City, Michigan) is an American film and television actor. Born Jeremy Boring, he is the second of four children, having an older brother, Josh, who is an Air Force Pilot; a younger brother, Zachary; and younger sister, Katy. He was raised in Traverse City, Michigan during his early childhood, then moved to Kansas with his mother after his parents divorced. When his mother died of complications from Lupus in the mid 1970s, … - Orderic Vitalis
Orderic Vitalis (1075-c. 1142) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and England. He was the eldest son of a French priest, Odeler of Orleans, who had entered the service of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and had received from his patron a chapel in that city. When Orderic was five, his parents sent him from an English priest, Siward by name, … - Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 - 16 November 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years from 1216 to his death. Medieval English monarchs did not use numbers after their names, and his contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the Norman Conquest. Despite his long reign, his personal accomplishments were slim and he was a political and military failure. - Richard Todd
Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor. - Odo Of Bayeux
Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 - February 1097, Palermo), Norman bishop and English earl, was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was for a time second only to the king in wealth and power in England. He was the son of William the Conqueror's mother Herleva, and Herluin de Conteville. Count Robert of Mortain was his younger brother. There is some uncertainty about his birthdate. Some historians have suggested he was born as early as 1030, … - Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12 1912 - October 30 1997) was an American film director. - Richard II, Duke of Normandy
Richard II (born 23 August 963, in Normandy, France - 28 August 1027, in Normandy), called the Good, was the son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and Gunnora. He succeeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 996. Richard held his own against a peasant insurrection, and helped Robert II of France against the duchy of Burgundy. He also repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by Ethelred II of England. - William Of Poitiers
William of Poitiers, Norman chronicler, was born at Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke William (William the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux. Orderic Vitalis gives a short biography of him in his "Historia ecclesiastica" and says that he also wrote verses. He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, … - Robert II, Duke of Normandy
Robert, called "The Magnificent" for his love of finery, and also called "The Devil" was the son of Duke Richard II of Normandy and Judith, daughter of Conan I, Duke of Brittany. When his father died, his elder brother Richard succeeded, whilst he became Count of Hiémois. When Richard died a year later, there were great suspicions that Robert had Richard murdered, hence his other nickname, "Robert le diable" (the devil). - Saint Marcouf
Saint Marcouf, Abbot of Nantus in the Cotentin, is a saint born in Bayeux in Normandy who is best known for the healing of scrofula. The accounts of his life are merged with that of St. Helier, whom he sent to convert the inhabitants of Jersey to Christianity. He also visited Jersey himself where miracles are ascribed to him. He died May 1 588 in the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the east coast of the Cotentin Peninsula. - Wace
Wace (c. 1115 - c. 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the "Roman de Rou" that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux. His extant works include: *"Roman de Brut" - a verse history of Britain *"Roman de Rou" - a verse history of the Dukes of Normandy *Other works, also in verse, include lives of Saint Margaret and Saint Nicholas. - Anthony McAuliffe
General Anthony C. McAuliffe (July 2 1898 - August 11 1975) was the United States Army general who commanded the defending 101st Airborne troops during the Battle of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He was famous for his single-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum. Born in Washington, DC on July 2 1898, McAuliffe was a student at West Virginia University from 1916-17, and graduated from West Point in November of 1918. - Catherine Of Valois
Catherine of Valois was the Queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422. Catherine of Valois was the daughter of King Charles VI of France and Isabeau de Bavière. She was born on October 27, 1401, in Paris. On June 2, 1420, she was given in marriage to King Henry V of England, but only after Henry's demand for return of Normandy and Aquitaine as part of the marriage pact which was triggered by the Battle of Agincourt and the subsequent Treaty of Troyes. - Abbot Suger
Suger (c. 1081 - January 13, 1151) was one of the last French abbot-statesmen, a historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture. Suger was born into a poor family and in 1091 was brought to the nearby abbey of Saint-Denis for education. He trained at the priory of Saint-Denis de l'Estrée, and there first met the future king King Louis VI the Fat. From 1104 to 1106 Suger attended another school, … - Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers. He can be categorized as part of the movement termed "naturalism", but also as part of the movement of "realism". Born in the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague (Normandy), Millet moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. - William Clito
William Clito (October 25, 1102 - July 28, 1128) was the son of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, by his marriage with Sibylla of Conversano. He had a claim on both Normandy and England, and became count of Flanders. His surname 'Clito' was a Latin term equivalent to the English 'atheling' (used to refer to his first cousin, the son of Henry I). Both 'Clito' and 'Atheling' signified 'man of royal blood', or the modern equivalent 'prince'. - Gilbert Crispin
Abbot Gilbert Crispin (1055?-1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk. Gilbert was appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England. Gilbert became the third Norman Abbot of Westminster to be appointed after the Norman Conquest, succeeding Abbot Vitalis of Bernay. He was probably the grandson of Gislebert Crispin, Baron of Bec, … - Ermengarde Of Anjou
Ermengarde of Anjou, daughter of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Hildegarde de Beaugency, was successively Duchess of Aquitaine, Brittany, and the patron of Fontevraud Abbey. She was born in Angers around 1067. Having lost her mother at a young age, she received a good education and grew to be pious and concerned about religious reform, especially the struggle against the secular appropriation of church property. She was also noted for her beauty in her youth. - Herfast
Herfast (d. 1084) was the first post-Saxon Lord Chancellor of England, serving in that capacity from 1068 to 1070. Born in Normandy, France, he joined William the Conqueror during the Norman invasion of England, and was appointed head of the royal writing office after the Battle of Hastings. After serving as Lord Chancellor, he became Bishop of Thetford; however, he came into conflict with the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, and when the case was brought forward, … - William Malet
William Malet (died 1071) fought at the Battle of Hastings. He had substantial property in Normandy, chiefly in the Pays de Caux, with a castle at Graville-Ste-Honorine, at the mouth of the Seine near Harfleur (and nowadays a suburb of Le Havre). Legend has it that his mother was English, and that he was the uncle of King Harold II of England's wife Edith (the claim being that he had a sister Aelgifu who married Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia, who was the father of Edith). - La Hire
Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in the campaigns of 1429. His most significant action was to lead the vanguard in the important victory at Patay. La Hire joined Charles VII for the first time in 1418, when the English army invaded France. Three years later, in 1421 he fought at the Battle of Baugé. He was a close comrade of Joan of Arc, … - Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera" ("Le Fantôme de l'Opéra", 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel "Phantom" by Susan Kay. - John Chandos
Sir John Chandos was an English knight. Hailing from Derbyshire, Chandos was a close friend of Edward, the Black Prince and a founding member of the Order of the Garter. Unlike most commanders of the day, Chandos was not of noble birth. As a veteran, Chandos was one of the commanders who led the sixteen-year old Edward's troops to victory at the Battle of Crécy. As Edward's Chief of Staff, he designed the strategy that won victory at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. - Roger Of Salisbury
Roger (died 1139), bishop of Salisbury, was originally priest of a small chapel near Caen. The future King Henry I, who happened to hear mass there one day, was impressed by the speed with which Roger read the service and enrolled him in his own service. Roger, though uneducated, showed great talent for business. On coming to the throne, Henry almost immediately made him chancellor (1101). Soon after Roger received the bishopric of Salisbury. - Jean Patou
Jean Patou (Paris, 1880-1936) was a French fashion designer. The designer, who was born in Normandy, France, opened his couture house in 1919 after serving in WWI. He became known for eradicating the flapper look by lengthening the skirt and returning to a natural waistline. Patou also is credited with introducing sportswear for women and is considered the inventor of the knitted swimwear and the tennis skirt. He also was the first designer to popularize the cardigan, …
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