1512882192. Duke Richard II of Normandy &
1512882193. Duchess Judith de Bretagne & 1279328323. Duchess Papia of
Envermeu.
~975,
Richard ‘the Good’ born in Normandy, s/o 3025764384. Richard I of Normandy
& 3025764384. Gunnora ?.
3/19/978, Aethelred the Unready became King of England.
~980, Judith
born in Brittany, d/o 3025764386. Conan I of Rennes & 3025764387. Ermengarde d’Anjou.
7/3/987, Hugh [Capet] succeeded Louis V [Carolingian]
as King of France.
6/27/992, Judith’s father died.
10/24/996, Robert II, the pious, succeeded as King of France.
11/20/996,
Richard II ‘the Good’ [le Bon/l'Irascible] succeeded as Count of Normandy.
[Richard began his reign by suppressing a peasant revolt.]
[–––Richard
& Judith–––]
~997,
Richard married Judith at Mont Saint-Michel.
998, Richard
established in his castle at St. Sauveur, with the sanction of Hugh, bishop of
Coutnces, a collegiate church of 4 prebends. (S) Architectural Antiquities of
Normandy, Cotman, 1822, P13.
999, The
Danes assist Richard, count of Normandy, against King Robert of France. (S)
Abridgement of the History of England, Thoyras, 1747, P53.
1000,
Richard the Good allowed the Viking fleet to winter in Normandy before invading
England.
1001,
Richard II brought William of Dijon to the abbey of the Holy Trinity at Fecamp
as the abbot. (S) Monastic Revivial, Potts, 1997, P28.
1001, Mont
St. Michel destroyed by fire.
1002, Count
Richard married his sister Emma to Aethelred, King of England.
1002, A
peace agreement between King Robert and Count Richard.
4/1003, King
Robert of France, supported by Richard, count of Normandy, invaded Burgundy,
vying with Otto-William [step-son of Duke Henry]. They laid siege to Auxerre
[unsuccessfully] into the summer.
1003,
Richard concluded an alliance with King Swein of Denmark. (S) Historium
Anglorum, Henricus, 1996, P345.
1004,
Richard attended the ceremony at the cathedral of Rouen when [St.] Olaf [future
King of Norway], was baptised. (S) Normandy, Home, 1905, P238.
1004, Count
Odo II of Blois allied with his brother-in-law Richard, count of Normandy in a
coordinated attack on Fulk in Anjou from west and east. [The campaign never
occurred, apparently because of King Robert of France.]
[––Papia––]
~1005, Papia
born in France.
1005,
Richard’s daughter Maud, married to Odo II of Blois, died childless. Richard
wanter her dower, half the county of Dreux, returned; which Odo refused,
bringing the two of them to war.
1105-06, Odo
II of Blois and Count Richard ‘the
fearless’ in sustained hostilities.
1006, A
charter of Richard, count of Normandy, to Fecamp. (S) Monastic Revival, Potts,
1997, P139.
1006-1026,
Duke Richard II styled himself as ‘count’ in 9 charters.
6/1006,
Baldwin IV of Flanders defeated the forces of King Robert and Count Richard at
Valenciennes. (S) Cambridge Medieval History, Vs1-5, Bury.
9/1007, King
Robert of France, Odo, count of Blois’s step-father, imposed a settlement
between Odo and Richard, count of Normandy.
1008, The
Benedictine abbey of Bernay, diocese of Lisieux, found by Judith of Brittany,
wife of Richard of Normandy, on her dower lands. (S) Religious Life in
Normandy, Hicks, 2007, P166.
1009, King
Ethelred of England sent messengers to Richard, count of the Normands, to seek
his advice and assisstance. (S) Historium Anglorum, Henricus, 1996, P345.
4/1012, An
agreement between the abbots of Jumièges and Bougeuil concerning an exchange of
land in Poitou subscribed by ‘Richardus … filius Ricardi principi magni …
Judith …, filius eius Richardus et … mater Richardi comitis Gunnor, uxor
comitis Richardi’.
1013, Queen
Emma, with her children, sent to the court of her brother, Richard II, after
the invasion of England by Svend King of Denmark.
1013,
Richard defeated the forces of Odo II at Tillieres. Roger of Tosny and his
father Raoul held the castle at Tillieres for Richard.
1013-14, Odo
II in conflict with Richard, count of Normandy, over dower lands of his first
wife Mathilda; which Richard had confiscated. (S) Monastic Revival, Potts,
1997, P66. [Duke Richard used Viking mercenaries in the war.]
9/1013, [St.]
Olav of Norway helps Duke Richard subjugate Brittany.
2/2/1014,
Svend ‘Forkbeard’, King of Denmark, who had captured England and caused
Richard’s sister Emma to flee to Normandy, died. [1015, Olaf elected King of
Norway.]
1014,
Richard II, hosted Vikings under the leadership of [St.] Olaf Helgi and Lacman at the Christian capital of Rouen.
1015,
Richard became ‘Duke of Normandy’.
1015, Richard II., Duke of Normandy, made a grant of the town of
Caen by charter to his son-in-law Reynault. (S) Normandy, Scudamore, 1906, P98.
1015,
Richard made his half-brother William, count of Eu.
11/30/1016, Cnut became King of Denmark and all of
England.
6/16/1017,
‘Judita comitissa’ died. (S) FMG.
[–––Richard–––]
1017-8, King
Olaf Helgi wintered in Normandy.
1018, An
Irish-Danish combined fleet raided Aquitaine, capturing the Countess of
Limoges. The Countess was released by the intervention of Duke Richard of
Normandy. (S) Viking Pirates, Hudson, 2005, P68.
7/1018,
Richard married his sister Emma to King Cnut.
Richard
betrothed to [did not marry] 2nd Estrid Svendsdatter, d/o King Cnut
of Denmark and England. [Richard quickly repudiated Estrid.]
1019, King
Robert of France demanded assisstance from Richard, duke of Normandy, in laying
siege to Melun. Richard made and arrangement with some of the inhabitants by
which the gates were opened at a specific hour to let him enter as a conqueror.
(S) Dukes of Normandy, Duncan, 1839, P57. [They assaulted Melun from both
sides.]
1022,
Richard began a new structure at Mont St. Michel [which had been destroyed by
fire in 1001]. (S) Arch. Tour of Normandy, Knight, 1841, P156.
1022, Odo
II’s succession to Champagne was called into question by King Robert. King
Robert submitted his quarrel with Odo
to Duke Richard II of Normandy, who summoned both parties to his
court [with little success.] (S) Cambridge History of Medieval Political
Thought, Burns, 1991, P181.
1023, Duke
Richard built the chapel of Our Lady of Grace [at Honfleur – one of the most
ancient maritime chapels in Normandy] on a steep his southwest of the town. (S)
Mary in Our Life, Santoro, 2011, P192.
By 1024,
Duke Richard allowed exiled Roger of Tosny and his father Raoul to return to
Normandy.
1024,
‘Ricardus princeps et dux Normannorum, filius Ricardi seniroris’ made donations to Saint-Wandrille.
[––Richard
& Papia––]
By 1025,
Richard married 2nd Papia ?.
1024,
‘Osbernus et Anfredus fratres’ made donations to Saint-Wandrille subscribed by
‘Riccardi principis Normannorum, Papie comitisse’
1025-6, Duke
Richard [II] donated property to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel,
subscribed by ‘Papie uxoris comitis.’
1025-6,
Richard, duke of Normandy, intervened on behalf of his son-in-law Renaud de
Bourgogne, who had been imprisoned by Hugues de Chalon, by sending troops to
devastate Chalon and procure his release.
1025-6, Duke
Richard confirmed gifts of his great-grandfather Rollo to Saint-Ouen, Rouen.
1026, As
part of Richard the Good’s dying bequest, he gave 100 pounds of gold for the
rebuilding of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and financed a pilgrimage of 700
persons.
8/23/1026,
Richard died; buried at Fecamp; his son succeeding as Richard III, duke of
Normandy; son Robert succeeded as count of Heimois.
(S)
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Children
of Richard and Judith:
i. Richard III of Normandy, born ~998 in Normandy.
1/1026, Richard married Adela Capet (756441099).
8/6/1027, Richard died of poisoning.
Son: Nicholas, who became the Abbot of Fecamp.
ii. Robert I of Normandy (756441096), born
6/22/1000 in Normandy.
iii. Adelais de Normandie (1521882497), born ~1005
in Normandy.
Child
of Richard and Papia:
i. Alice of Normandy (639664161), born by 1026 in
Normandy.
Alice
married married §§Viscount
Radulfe of Bayeux. Robert of Torigny names ‘… et Aeliz uxorem Ranulfi
vicecomitis de Baiocis’ as the children of ‘Ricardo segundo duce Normannum
filio primi Ricardil’ (S) FMG.
Son: Viscount Radulfe of Bayeux (319832080)
(b.~1045).
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