de Normandie, Sir Richard II

de Normandie, Sir Richard II

Male 963 - 1026  (63 years)

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  • Name de Normandie, Richard  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Title Sir 
    Suffix II 
    Birth 23 Aug 963  Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Appointments / Titles Between 1 Jan 996 and 28 Aug 1026  Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6
    3rd Duke of Normandie 
    Nickname The Good 
    FSID KDQW-JTJ  [2, 4, 7
    Death 28 Aug 1026  Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 7
    Burial Aft 28 Aug 1026  Abbey of Holy Trinity, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 7
    Abbey of Holy Trinity in Fécamp
    Abbey of Holy Trinity in Fécamp
    Person ID I32080  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father de Normandie, Richard I,   b. 28 Aug 933, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 996, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother de Crepon, Gunnora,   b. 26 Nov 936, La Bataille, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1031, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 964  Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8, 9
    Family ID F9323  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family de Bretagne, Lady Judith,   b. 21 Mar 982, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1017, Bernay, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Marriage 1000  Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6
    Children 
     1. de Normandie, Lord Duke Robert,   b. 22 Jun 1000, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1035, Nicaea, Iznik, Bursa, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)  [natural]
     2. de Normandie, Sir Richard III,   b. 28 Aug 1001, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Aug 1027, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 25 years)  [natural]
     3. de Normandie, Adélaïde I,   b. 1002, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jul 1037, Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F12341  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 23 Aug 963 - Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAppointments / Titles - 3rd Duke of Normandie - Between 1 Jan 996 and 28 Aug 1026 - Normandy, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1000 - Normandy, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 28 Aug 1026 - Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Aft 28 Aug 1026 - Abbey of Holy Trinity, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
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    FitzRichard, Richard II.JPG

    Documents
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    of NORMANDY, Richard II

  • Notes 
    • Richard II, Duke of Normandy
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Richard II "the Good"
      Richard the Good as part of the "Six Dukes of Normandy" statue in the town square of Falaise.
      Duke of Normandy
      Reign 996–1026
      Predecessor Richard I
      Successor Richard III
      Born 23 August 963
      Normandy
      Died 28 August 1026 (aged 63)
      Normandy
      Spouse Judith of Brittany
      (unsure if married) Poppa of Envermeu
      Issue Richard III of Normandy
      Robert I of Normandy
      and more.
      House House of Normandy
      Father Richard I, Duke of Normandy
      Mother Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy
      Richard II (23 August 963 – 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the eldest son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and Gunnora. He was a Norman nobleman of the House of Normandy.

      Contents

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      1 Life
      2 Marriages and children
      3 Genealogy
      4 Notes
      5 References
      Life

      Richard succeeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 996. During his minority, the first five years of his reign, his regent was Count Rodulf of Ivry, his uncle, who wielded the power and put down a peasant insurrection at the beginning of Richard's reign.

      Richard had deep religious interests and found he had much in common with Robert II of France, who he helped militarily against the duchy of Burgundy. He forged a marriage alliance with Brittany by marrying his sister Hawise to Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany and by his own marriage to Geoffrey's sister, Judith of Brittany.

      In 1000-1001, Richard repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by Ethelred II of England. Ethelred had given orders that Richard be captured, bound and brought to England. But the English had not been prepared for the rapid response of the Norman cavalry and were utterly defeated.

      Richard attempted to improve relations with England through his sister Emma of Normandy's marriage to King Ethelred. This marriage was significant in that it later gave his grandson, William the Conqueror, the basis of his claim to the throne of England. The improved relations proved to be beneficial to Ethelred when in 1013 Sweyn Forkbeard invaded England. Emma with her two sons Edward and Alfred fled to Normandy followed shortly thereafter by her husband king Ethelred. Soon after the death of Ethelred, Cnut, King of England forced Emma to marry him while Richard was forced to recognize the new regime as his sister was again Queen. Richard had contacts with Scandinavian Vikings throughout his reign. He employed Viking mercenaries and concluded a treaty with Sweyn Forkbeard who was en route to England.

      Richard II commissioned his clerk and confessor, Dudo of Saint-Quentin, to portray his ducal ancestors as morally upright Christian leaders who built Normandy despite the treachery of their overlords and neighboring principalities. It was clearly a work of propaganda designed to legitimize the Norman settlement, and while it contains numerous historically unreliable legends, as respects the reigns of his father and grandfather, Richard I and William I it is basically reliable.

      In 1025 and 1026 Richard confirmed gifts of his great-grandfather Rollo to Saint-Ouen at Rouen. His other numerous grants to monastic houses tends to indicate the areas over which Richard had ducal control, namely Caen, the Éverecin, the Cotentin, the Pays de Caux and Rouen.

      Richard II died 28 Aug 1026. his eldest son, Richard becoming the new Duke.

      Richard II (right), with the Abbot of Mont Saint-Michel (middle) and Lothair of France (left)
      Marriages and children

      He married firstly, c.1000, Judith (982–1017), daughter of Conan I of Brittany, by whom he had the following issue:

      Richard (c. 1002/4), duke of Normandy
      Alice of Normandy (c. 1003/5), married Renaud I, Count of Burgundy
      Robert (c. 1005/7), duke of Normandy
      William (c. 1007/9), monk at Fécamp, d. 1025, buried at Fécamp Abbey
      Eleanor (c. 1011/3), married to Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
      Matilda (c. 1013/5), nun at Fecamp, d. 1033. She died young and unmarried.[16]
      Secondly he married Poppa of Envermeu, by whom he had the following issue:

      Mauger (c. 1019), Archbishop of Rouen
      William (c. 1020/5), count of Arques

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