Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy. Charles the Simple [aged 42], the son of Louis named "Do Nothing," was Rollo's father-in-law. At one time he sent two knights to his daughter Gisela. She kept them with her secretly for a long while, not wishing to reveal them to Rollo. When he learned this, he was angry and considered them spies, and ordered them to be brought out, and when they were brought out, they had their throats cut in the marketplace. When Robert [aged 56], duke of the Franks and Rollo's godfather, heard that the bonds of peace made between the king and the Robert [Rollo] [aged 76], duke of the Northmen, had been destroyed and broken because of the killing of the two knights, he rose against him, and invading the kingdom of the Franks, he was anointed king on the third day before the Kalends of July [29th June 922].
Carolus Simplex, filius Ludovici cognomento Nihil-fecit erat socer Rollonis; quodam tempore misit duos milites Gislæ filiæ suæ. Quos illa apud se occulte diu morari fecit, nolens eos manifestare Rolloni. Quod cum ille cognovisset, iratus et reputans eos exploratores, jussit illos educi, et eductos in foro rerum venalium jugulari. Audiens autem Robertus dux Francorum, patrinus Rollonis, quod pro nece duorum militum, colligatæ pacis inter regem et Robertum ducem Northmannorum vincula soluta diruptaque essent, contra eum rebellavit, et regnum Franciæ invadens, in regem III Kalendas Julii unctus est.
