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But Rollo certainly did accept baptism. He was “imbued with the catholic faith of the sacrosanct Trinity,” wrote Dudo, “[and] caused his own counts and warriors and his entire armed band to be baptized and instructed through preaching in the faith of the Christian religion.” He also changed his name to that of his new godfather, Robert, the future Robert I, king of the Franks.
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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