Fernando Prince Of Castile & Leon

Alfonso married Ryksa Queen Of Castille before 4 Dec 1152 in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland. Ryksa (daughter of Wladislav II "The Exile" Prince Of Poland and Agnes Princess Of Austria) was born about 1131 in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland; died about 16 Jun 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Urraca Alfonsez Of Castile & Leon in 1087 in Toledo, Castile, Spain. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VI "The Valiant" Of Castile & Leon and Constance Princess Of Burgundy) was born about 1082 in Burgos, Burgos, Castile, Spain; died on 8 Mar 1126 in Saldana, Palencia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wladislav married Agnes Princess Of Austria about 1127. Agnes (daughter of Leopold III "The Saint" Markgraf Of Austria and Agnes Imperial Princess Of The Holy Roman Empire) was born about 1111 in Vienna, Vienna, Austria; died on 25 Jan 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guillaume married Stephanie (Etiennette) Of Barcelona before 1060. Stephanie was born about 1044 in , , , France; died after 1092. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Constance Princess Of Burgundy on 8 May 1081 in Dijon, Cote Dor, Bourgogne, France. Constance (daughter of Robert Prince Of France and Helie Ermengarde De Semur) was born about 1046 in Dijon, Cote Dor, Bourgogne, France; died in Feb 1093. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leopold married Agnes Imperial Princess Of The Holy Roman Empire about 1106 in Klosterneuburg, Niederosterreich, Austria. Agnes (daughter of Heinrich IV Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire and Bertha Countess Of Maurienne) was born in 1074 in Klosterneuburg, Niederosterreich, Austria; died on 24 Sep 1143. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Renaud married Adelais (Judith) De Normandie in 1023 in , , , France. Adelais (daughter of Richard II "The Good" Duke Of Normandy and Judith De Bretagne) was born about 1007 in , Normandy, France; died on 27 Jul 1037 in , , , France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Helie Ermengarde De Semur about 1033 in , , , France. Helie was born in 1016 in Semur, Cote-D'or, France; died on 22 Apr 1055. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Bertha Countess Of Maurienne in 1066. Bertha was born on 21 Sep 1051 in Maurienne, Savoie, France; died on 27 Dec 1087. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Otto married Ermentrude (Irmtrude) Countess Of Rheims about 983. Ermentrude (daughter of Renaud De Roucy and Alberade De Lorraine) was born about 963 in Rheims, Marne, France; died before 5 Mar 1005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Richard married Judith De Bretagne about 1000 in , Normandy, France. Judith was born in 982 in , , Bretagne, France; died on 16 Jun 1017 in , Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Agnaes Princess Of Aquitaine on 21 Nov 1043. Agnaes (daughter of Guillaume V (Iii), "The Grand" Duke Of Aquitaine and Agnaes Countess Of Burgundy) was born about 1020 in Aquitaine, France; died on 14 Dec 1077. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]