Most of the vikings from scandinavia came to mainland europe mainly to plunder the rich monasteries and to extort the local populace for money, goods, slaves etc. read more
Displaced from rich targets southeast of Normandy, the Vikings completed a military—but not cultural or commercial—occupation of Brittany in the first half of the tenth century, and planned to invest Francia from Nantes, where the Loire offered a strategic route for advance. read more
It is unclear when Viking raiders began to settle in the coastal area, but there is some evidence from the few documents that survive from this period. A Carolingian charter of 905 records Charles the Simple’s grant of two serfs of the Crown from the pagus of Rouen to his chancellor Ernestus. This was the last royal charter in Normandy. read more