Gerloc

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Gerloc (or Geirlaug), baptised in Rouen as Adela (or Adèle) in 912, was the daughter of Rollo, first duke of Normandy, and his wife, Poppa of Bayeux. She was the sister of Duke William Longsword.

In 935, she married William Towhead, the future count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine, then only ten years old. She gave him two children before dying on 14 October 962:

• William IV of Aquitaine
• Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet