The Starr Family of America

Notes
Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (121E:18), her husband, ROLLO,
participated in a Viking attack on Bayeux, where her father, COUNT
BERENGER, was killed. Rollo took Poppe as his "Danish wife".
Betty Rockswold posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL that:
. 'The historian Dudo wrote that among the defenders of Bayeau was CountBerengar of Senlis. He was killed in the fighting and his daughter Poppawas taken prisoner. Poppa was allotted to Duke Rollo. He proceeded tocontract with her for a "Danish marriage", which means he would remainmarried to her as long as he lived in Normandy, but the marriage would benull and void if he moved away, as she was taken as the spoils of war".

David Geen, Editor of "The American Genealogist postd to GEN-MEDIEVAL
on 12/09/99 that
. "Katherine Keats-Rohan, in her article article on "Poppa of Bayeux andHer Family" in the 75th-anniversary issue of TAG (July-October 1997). . .accepts, as I think do most scholars, the early identification of Poppa'sfather as Berengar, marquis of Neustria. She then works with thehypothesis that Poppa's name indicates descent from the Popponen, adynastic family that tended to bestow the name "Poppo" on the second (orat least not the eldest) son. She proposes that Poppa was a granddaughterof Heinrich of Thuringia and his wife Ingeltrude, daughter of Louis thePious [RIN 1212], which would give this family a Carolingian descent;Heinrich was a brother of Poppo II. She suggests two hypotheses for theconnection between Heinrich and Poppa: Either Berengar of Neustria or hiswife Adalind was a child of Heinrich. Later commentary on the Popponen,with pedigree charts, appears in Donald C. Jackman's Criticism andCritique: Sidelights on the Konradiner (Oxford, 1997), the first (andcurrently the only) volume in a major series entitled Prosopographica etGenealogica, edited by K. S.
B. Keats-Rohan and Christian Settipani."