- See Danish test far below.
--Check Ancestral Chart in Documents for Ancestors, Siblings, and Ancestors of Richard II of Normandy--
Here first in English from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II,_Duke_of_Normandy
Richard II (unknown - 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the eldest son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and Gunnora.[1][2] 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.[1] During his minority, the first five years of his reign (suggesting he was born circa 980), 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.[3]
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.[3] 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.[3]
In 1000-1001, Richard repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by Ethelred II of England.[4] Ethelred had given orders that Richard be captured, bound and brought to England.[5] 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.[6]
Richard attempted to improve relations with England through his sister Emma of Normandy's marriage to King Ethelred.[4] This marriage was significant in that it later gave his grandson, William the Conqueror, the basis of his claim to the throne of England.[7] The improved relations proved to be beneficial to Ethelred when in 1013 Sweyn Forkbeard [Svend Tveskæg] invaded England. Emma with her two sons Edward and Alfred fled to Normandy followed shortly thereafter by her husband king Ethelred.[7] Soon after the death of Ethelred, Cnut [Knud], King of England [and Danmark] forced Emma to marry him while Richard was forced to recognize the new regime as his sister was again Queen.[4] 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.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10] [Also his claim that Rollo of Normandie was from Fakse, Sjælland, Danmark].
In 1025 and 1026 Richard confirmed gifts of his great-grandfather Rollo to Saint-Ouen at Rouen.[11] 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.[12]
Richard II died 28 Aug 1026.[1] his eldest son, Richard becoming the new Duke.
He married firstly, c.1000, Judith (982-1017), daughter of Conan I of Brittany,[13][14] by whom he had the following issue:
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]
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
And a Danish text:
Richard 2. af Normandiet (død 1026) var hertug i Normandiet og gik under navnet Richard den Gode [Le Bon]. Han var søn af hertug Richard 1. den Frygtløse af Normandiet og hertuginde Gunnor. Han efterfulgte sin far som hertug af Normandiet i 996. Richard nærede modvilje imod bøndernes opstand og hjalp Robert 2. af Frankrig imod hertugdømmet Burgund. Han slog også et engelsk angreb på den kotentiske halvø tilbage, et angreb der blev ledet af den angelsaksiske kong Ethelred 2.. Richard søgte også at reformere de normanniske klostre.
Richard var gift 2 gange, først i 996 med Judith (død 1017), der var datter af Conan 1. af Bretagne dernæst med Papia. Børn af 1. ægteskab var:
Richard 3. af Normandiet
Robert den Storslåede
William, munk i Fécamp død 1025
Adélaide
Renaud 1. greve af Burgund
Eleanor (eller Ainor, Judith)
Balduein 4. af Flandern
Matilda død 1033
og børn af 2. ægteskab med Papia:
Mauger ærkebiskop af Rouen
Vilhelm greve af Arques
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