56:
wrote "on this reference rests the identification of Sprota, William
Longsword’s wife 'according to the Danish custom', as of Breton origin", and this could apply to someone of native Breton, Scandinavian, or Frankish ethnicity, the latter being the most likely based on her name spelling. The first
117:), received the news by a messenger that Sprota had just given birth to a son; delighted at the news William ordered his son to be baptized and given the personal name of Richard. William's steward Boto became the boy's godfather.
1337:
110:
At the time of the birth of her first son
Richard, Sprota was living in her own household at Bayeux, under William's protection. William, having just quashed a rebellion at Pré-de Bataille (
120:
After the death of
William Longsword and the captivity of her son Richard, she had been "collected" from her dangerous situation by the "immensely wealthy" Esperleng.
1178:
1341:, Neue Folge, Band II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Häuser der Übrigen Staaten Europas(Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984).
1159:
887:
52:. Although he does not name her, he identifies her under the year as the mother of "William’s son born of a Breton concubine".
103:
The non-Christian nature of her relationship with
William became a source of ridicule for her son Richard. The French King
1400:
1385:
1395:
1390:
497:
1121:
36:. After the death of William, she married a wealthy landowner, Esperleng, by him having another son, Norman nobleman
705:
107:"abused the boy with bitter insults", calling him "the son of a whore who had seduced another woman's husband."
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The date of the battle and as such
Richard's birth is commonly given as c.936 but according to the
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identified Sprota's second husband as
Esperleng, a wealthy landowner who operated mills at
22:
was an early 10th century woman of obscure origin who became wife 'in the Viking fashion' (
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1177:, Oxford University PressPrint, 2011, ISBN 9780199609086, p. 619
937:(ed. Laporte, p. 53) Richard was baptized in 938. See Van Houts,
1312:
Katherine S. B. Keats-Rohan, 'Poppa of Bayeux and Her Family',
1293:
The
Normans in their histories: propaganda, myth and subversion
519:
183:
1346:
Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066
61:, writing in the second half of the 11th century. The name
1086:
Keats-Rohan, 'Poppa of Bayeux and Her Family', 1997, 192
1114:
Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure
48:
The first mention of Sprota is by her contemporary,
84:1086) and in Normandy like the Eprevilles, such as
76:and in various place-names both in England such as
1348:(University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988).
146:By Esperling of Vaudreuil she was the mother of:
1367:
1318:, vol. 72 (July–October 1997), pp. 187–204.
1305:Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach, trans.,
92:1025), which is at the same time Anglo-Saxon as
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136:By William I Longsword she was the mother of:
155:several daughters who married Norman magnates
16:10th-century wife and mother of Norman dukes
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1175:A Dictionary of British Place Names
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1116:(in French). Paris. p. 104.
1112:de Beaurepaire, François (1981).
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1265:
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1330:Marriage in the Western Church
1302:, (Hambledon Continuum, 2007).
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1080:
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1376:Duchesses of Normandy
1360:The Normans in Europe
1075:The Normans in Europe
1062:The Normans in Europe
1036:The Normans in Europe
151:Rodulf, Count of Ivry
1381:10th-century Normans
1335:Detlev Schwennicke,
1210:, 1992, 1:102-3 n. 5
941:, 1992, 1:78-9 n. 5.
1236:, 1992, 1:78-9 n. 3
59:William of Jumièges
54:Elisabeth van Houts
1147:Unknown parameter
935:Annals of Jumièges
1247:Predatory Kinship
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1034:Van Houts,
1023:The Normans
991:, 1992, 111
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906:Fitz Osbern
891:Fitz Osbern
732:the Steward
699:of Normandy
551:of Canville
513:of Normandy
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188:of Normandy
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67:anthroponym
25:more danico
1370:Categories
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987:Reynolds,
962:References
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249:Theobald I
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751:Bishop of
560:daughters
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271:William I
260:Luitgarde
160:Genealogy
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1021:Crouch,
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742:of Ivrea
711:of Rouen
501:of Paris
1283:Sources
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893:Earl of
888:William
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1190:Sproti
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538:Rodulf
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283:Sprota
132:Family
126:Pîtres
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94:Sprota
63:Sprota
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105:Louis
70:Sprot
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