Richard II "The Good" Duke Of Normandy^[1]

963 - 1027  (64 years)

• Name	Richard II "The Good" Duke Of Normandy
  Nickname	The Good
  Birth	23 Aug 963	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Aug 1027	Fecamp, Normandie, France
  Burial	Fecamp, Normandie, France
  Person ID	I23142	Master
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Richard I Fearless Normandy,   b. 28 Aug 933, Fecamp, Normandie, France d. 20 Nov 996, Fecamp, Normandie, France (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Gunnora Harldsdottir Duchess Normandy De Crepon,   b. 936, , Normandy, France d. 1033, Fecamp, Normandie, France (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	962	Fecamp, Normandie, France
  Family ID	F6053	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Judith De Bretagne,   b. 982, , , Bretagne, France d. 16 Jun 1017, , Normandy, France (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1000	, Normandy, France
  Children	+ 1. Richard III De Normandie,   b. Abt 1001, , Normandy, France d. 6 Aug 1028 (Age 27 years) + 2. Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke Of Normandy,   b. Abt 1003, , Normandy, France d. 22 Jul 1035, Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey (Age 32 years)   3. Guillaume De Normandie,   b. 1005, , Normandy, France d. Jun 1025 (Age 20 years) + 4. Adelais (Judith) De Normandie,   b. Abt 1007, , Normandy, France d. 27 Jul 1037, , , , France (Age 30 years)   5. Elbeonore De Normandie,   b. Abt 1009, , Normandy, France   6. Miss Princess Of Normandy,   b. 1011, , Normandy, France
  Family ID	F8685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Pope (Papie) Duchess Of Normandy,   b. Abt 997, , Normandy, France
  Marriage	Abt 1024	, Normandy, France
  Children	+ 1. Guillaume De Normandie,   b. Abt 1025, , Normandy, France   2. Mauger De Normandie,   b. Abt 1027, , Normandy, France d. 1055, Guernsey, Channel Islands, France (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F8686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Aug 963 - Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Marriage - Abt 1000 - , Normandy, France Marriage - Abt 1024 - , Normandy, France Death - 28 Aug 1027 - Fecamp, Normandie, France Burial - - Fecamp, Normandie, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Richard II (died 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the eldest son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and Gunnor. He was a Norman nobleman of the House of Normandy. He was the paternal grandfather of William the Conqueror. Richard succeeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 996. During his minority, the first five years of his reign (suggesting he was born between 980 and 990), 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 defeated at the Battle of Val-de-Saire. 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. He married first, around 1000, Judith (982–1017), daughter of Conan I of Brittany, with whom he had the following children: Richard (c. 997/1001), duke of Normandy[1] Robert (1000), duke of Normandy[1] Alice of Normandy (c. 1003/5), married Renaud I, Count of Burgundy[1] William (c. 1007/9), monk at Fécamp, d. 1025, buried at Fécamp Abbey[1][15] 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] Second he married Poppa of Envermeu, and they had the following children: Mauger (c. 1019), Archbishop of Rouen William (c. 1020/5), count of Arques

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).