Devereux, Robert

Male 964 - 1037  (73 years)


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  • Name Devereux, Robert  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 964  Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Religion 989  [1, 2
    Archbishop of Rouen 
    Appointments / Titles Between 996 and 1037  [1, 2
    Count of Évreux 
    House Normandy  [1, 2
    FSID 28YJ-Z4N  [2, 3
    Death 16 Mar 1037  Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I32082  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  [1, 4, 5
    Family ID F9323  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family de Rouen, Herlève,   b. 968, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Feb 1034, Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 984  Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Devereux, Lord William,   b. 1005, Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Dec 1067, Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F12342  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

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  • Notes 
    • Life
      Robert was a son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy and his second wife, Gunnor.[1] He was a younger brother of duke Richard II and uncle of duke Robert I.[1] He had been appointed Archbishop of Rouen by his father c. 989–990 and had been given the countship of Évreux at the same time.[2] Robert was well aware he was destined for the church and seemingly accepted his role as both archbishop and count willingly.[3] But he had always been involved in Norman politics and was a powerful adherent of the Norman dukes.[4] Robert had proved himself a powerful ecclesiastical ally of his father, Richard I, as well as his brother, Richard II, and at the latter's death effectively became the senior male adviser to the ducal clan.[5] But his nephew Richard III had a turbulent and short reign of just over a year and when replaced by his brother Robert I, as Duke of Normandy, the prelate Robert had a great deal of trouble restraining the new duke.[6] In 1028 he found himself besieged and then banished by his young nephew.[6] Duke Robert I then besieged Hugh d'Ivry, Bishop of Bayeux who, along with Archbishop Robert had apparently questioned his authority as duke.[7] From exile in France, Archbishop Robert excommunicated his nephew Duke Robert and placed Normandy under an interdict.[7]

      The Archbishop and Duke finally came to terms and to facilitate the lifting of the interdict and excommunication, Duke Robert restored the Archbishop to his see, to his countship of Evereux, and returned all his properties.[8] To further illustrate his change of heart towards the church, Duke Robert restored property that he or his vassals had confiscated, and by 1034 had returned all church properties including those taken from Fécamp Abbey.[8] By 1033 Duke Robert was mounting a major campaign against his double cousin Alan III, Duke of Brittany.[9] He and Alan had been raiding back and forth but finally a peace was negotiated between them by the returned Archbishop Robert, their mutual uncle.[9]

      In his last years Robert, realizing his past mistakes, began giving freely to the poor and undertook to rebuild the cathedral church at Rouen.[10] In 1035 Duke Robert had decided on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.[11] After making his illegitimate son William his heir and arranging for the archbishop to watch over and protect young William, Duke Robert set out on his pilgrimage never to return to Normandy.[11] Archbishop Robert fulfilled his promise and effectively ruled Normandy as regent for William[11] until Robert's death in 1037, which almost immediately caused an increase in lawlessness in Normandy.[12] His title of Archbishop of Rouen was succeeded by his nephew, Mauger.[13]

      Orderic Vitalis relates of a richly illustrated great psalter given to Archbishop Robert by his sister Queen Emma, wife of king Æthelred.[14] In a catalog of books in the Cathedral of Rouen created during the twelfth century, a reference was found to a particular book, the Benedictionarius Roberti archiepiscopi, which was given to the church of Rouen by Archbishop Robert of Normandy.[b][15] Since that time it became the property of the city of Rouen, where it is preserved (No. 27) as the Benedictional of Æthelgar, possibly for the prayers it contained at the end for the coronation of the Anglo-Saxon kings and queens.[c][16]

      Robert was the recipient of two epistolary poems from Warner of Rouen, who describes himself as the bishop's "servant" (famulus).[17]

      Family
      Robert married Herlevea,[1] and they had several children including the following:

      Richard, Count of Évreux (d. 1067)[1]
      Ralph d'Évreux, Seigneur of Gacé.[1] He married Basilla Flaitel, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. They had one son, Robert d'Évreux, who died without heirs. Basilla married secondly, Hugh de Gournay.[18]
      William d'Évreux,[1][d][19] married Hawise de Échauffour, daughter of Giroie, Lord of Échauffour, and had a daughter, Judith d'Évreux, who married Roger I of Sicily.[20][e][21]

  • Sources 
    1. [S789] WORLD: Family Search, Family Tree.
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/name

    2. [S788] WORLD: Wikipedia.
      https://www.wikipedia.org/

    3. [S844] WORLD: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
      http://fmg.ac/

    4. [S790] WORLD: Family Search, Ancestral File.
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies

    5. [S217] WORLD: Broderbund World Family Tree Vol. 02, Ed. 1.