The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum [The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy] is a landmark medieval chronicle tracing the rise and fall of the Norman dynasty from its early roots through the pivotal events surrounding the Norman Conquest of England. Originally penned in Latin by the monk William of Jumièges shortly before 1060 and later expanded at the behest of William the Conqueror, the work chronicles the deeds, politics, battles, and leadership of the Norman dukes, especially William’s own claim to the English throne. The narrative combines earlier historical sources with firsthand information and oral testimony to present an authoritative account of Normandy’s transformation from a Viking settlement into one of medieval Europe’s most powerful realms. William’s history emphasizes the legitimacy, military prowess, and governance of the Norman line, framing their expansion, including the conquest of England, as both divinely sanctioned and noble in purpose. Later chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni continued the history, extending the coverage into the 12th century, providing broader context on ducal rule and its impact. Today this classic work remains a foundational source for understanding Norman identity, medieval statesmanship, and the historical forces that reshaped England and Western Europe between 800AD and 1100AD.
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Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Portugal. She the daughter of Raymond V Count Barcelona. He the son of Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal and Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal. They were fifth cousins.
In 1146 [his father] Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal [aged 36] and [his mother] Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Portugal. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy [aged 51] and [his grandmother] Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy. He the son of Henry Burgundy Count Portugal and Teresa Alfónsez Jiménez.
On 11th November 1154 Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal was born to Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal [aged 45] and Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal [aged 29]. His nickname "Populator" not a consequence of the number of children he fathered, over sixty apparently, but his policy of populating remote areas in the northern Christian regions of Portugal.
On 3rd December 1157 [his mother] Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal [aged 32] died.
Before 15th August 1171 [his brother-in-law] Ferdinand II King Leon [aged 34] and [his sister] Urraca Burgundy Queen Consort Leon [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Leon. She the daughter of [his father] Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal [aged 62] and [his mother] Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal. He the son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon and Berenguela Barcelona Queen Consort Castile and Leon. They were half second cousins.
In 1176 [his daughter] Theresa of Portugal Queen Consort Leon was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 21] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. She married 1191 her first cousin Alfonso IX King Leon, son of Ferdinand II King Leon and Urraca Burgundy Queen Consort Leon, and had issue.
In 1180 [his daughter] Sancha Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 25] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal.
In May 1182 [his son] Constanza Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 27] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal.
On 23rd April 1185 [his son] Alfonso "Fat" II King Portugal was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 30] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal at Coimbra. He married 1206 his second cousin once removed Urraca Ivrea Queen Consort Portugal, daughter of Alfonso VIII King Castile and Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile, and had issue.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On 6th December 1185 [his father] Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal [aged 76] died. His son Sancho [aged 31] succeeded I King Portugal and reigned for twenty six years.
In 1188 [his son] Raymond Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 33] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. He died aged less than one years old.
On 23rd February 1188 [his son] Peter Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 33] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal.
On 9th March 1188 [his son] Raymond Burgundy died.
On 24th March 1188 [his son] Ferdinand Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 33] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. He married January 1212 his third cousin once removed Joan I Countess Flanders, daughter of Baldwin IX Count Flanders VI Count Hainaut and Marie Blois Countess Flanders.
In March 1189 [his son] Henry Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 34] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. He died the same year.
In 1191 [his son-in-law] Alfonso IX King Leon [aged 19] and Theresa of Portugal Queen Consort Leon [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Leon. She the daughter of Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 36] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. He the son of Ferdinand II King Leon and Urraca Burgundy Queen Consort Leon [aged 43]. They were first cousins.
In 1194 [his brother-in-law] Odo III Duke Burgundy [aged 28] and [his sister] Theresa Burgundy Duchess Burgundy [aged 43] were married. She by marriage Duchess Burgundy. She the daughter of [his father] Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal and [his mother] Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal. He the son of Hugh III Duke Burgundy and Alice Metz Duchess Burgundy. They were half second cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
In 1196 [his daughter] Mafalda Burgundy Queen Consort Castile was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 41] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. She married 1215 her second cousin once removed Henry I King Castile, son of Alfonso VIII King Castile and Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile.
In 1198 [his daughter] Berengaria Burgundy Queen Consort Denmark was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 43] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. She married 1214 King Valdemar II of Denmark and had issue.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1198 [his daughter] Branca Burgundy was born to Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 43] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal.
On 3rd August 1202 [his son] Constanza Burgundy [aged 20] died.
In 1206 Alfonso "Fat" II King Portugal [aged 20] and Urraca Ivrea Queen Consort Portugal [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of Alfonso VIII King Castile [aged 50] and Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile [aged 44]. He the son of Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 51] and Dulce Barcelona Queen Consort Portugal. They were second cousin once removed. She a granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
In 1211 [his sister] Urraca Burgundy Queen Consort Leon [aged 63] died.
On 26th March 1211 Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal [aged 56] died. His son Alfonso [aged 25] succeeded II King Portugal. Urraca Ivrea Queen Consort Portugal [aged 23] by marriage Queen Consort Portugal.
Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 4 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 8 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh I King of the Franks 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide Poitiers Queen Consort France
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert I Duke Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandfather: William "Liberator" Arles 1st Count Provence 1st Count Arles
Great x 3 Grandmother: Constance Arles Queen Consort France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide Blanche Ingelger Queen Consort West Francia
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry "Gallant" Burgundy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Helie Samur Duchess Burgundy
GrandFather: Henry Burgundy Count Portugal
Father: Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal 
Great x 4 Grandfather: García Sánchez "Tremulous" II King Pamplona
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sancho "Great" III King Pamplona
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jimena Fernández Bermúdez Queen Consort Pamplona
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ferdinand "Great" I King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Sancho García
Great x 3 Grandmother: Muniadona García Queen Consort Pamplona
Great x 1 Grandfather: Alfonso "Brave" VI King Leon VI King Castile
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bermudo "Gouty" II King Galicia II King Leon
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alfonso "Noble" V King Leon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elviro Garcia Queen Galicia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sancha Astur Leonese
Great x 4 Grandfather: Menendo González
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elvira González Queen Consort Leon
GrandMother: Teresa Alfónsez Jiménez
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jimena Munoz
Sancho "Populator" I King Portugal
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert "White Handed" Savoy I Count Savoy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Otto Savoy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy II Count Savoy
Great x 1 Grandfather: Humbert "Fat" Savoy II Count Savoy
GrandFather: Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Otto William Ivrea I Count Burgundy 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Reginald Ivrea I Count Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermentrude Countess Burgundy
Great x 2 Grandfather: William I Count Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Good" Normandy II Duke Normandy 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Normandy Countess Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy
Great x 1 Grandmother: Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ettiennette Countess Burgundy
Mother: Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal
GrandMother: Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy