BRETAGNE Sprote

0911 - 1005  (~ 93 years)

• Name	BRETAGNE Sprote
  Birth	0911	Bretagne, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	1005	Ponteaudemer, Normandy, France
  Notes	See the link to the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page for our documented knowledge of this person. Research Notes Note: ref: Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) (20 Apr 10) - Sprota was a Breton concubine captured in war and bound to William by a Danish marriage. There is no evidence that Sprota and William were ever married. After William died, Sprota became the wife of Esperleng, a wealthy miller; Rodulf of Ivry was a half-brother to Richard I. Note: I can't say if Sprota was the mother of Richard I. Weis isn't clear and mistresses at this time were common. She may have been from Brittany, but Weis calls her a "Danish wife," which may come from William of Jumiáeges who states that she was bound to William by the Danish custom, "Danico more iuncta, nomine Sprota." The evidence that she was from Brittany is from Flodoard: "Rex Ludowicus filio ipsius Willelmi, nato de concubina Britanna, terram Nortmannorum dedit; ..." Flodoard is identifying Sprota as mother of Richard (Ludowicus) and calls Sprota a concubine from Brittany. Sources Flodoard of Reims. Flodoardi Chronicon (Reims : Regnier, 1855) See the year 943. The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy's Mideieval Lands Index: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY.htm Guillaume of Jumièges records that, after the rebel “Riulfus” was defeated at the battle of "Pratum-belli", a messenger arrived “a...Fiscannensis castri” and reported to Guillaume the birth of his son to “nobilissima puella Danico more sibi iuncta...Sprota” Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 121E-18 (Ganger Rolf).
  Person ID	I58391	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family	NORMANDIE Guillaume,   b. Abt 0900, Normandie, France d. 17 Dec 0942, Picquigny, Somme, Picardie, France (Age 42 years)
  Children	1. NORMANDIE Richard,   b. 28 Aug 0933, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 20 Nov 0996, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26036	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026