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Richard II, Le Bon Duc de Normandie<br>Kaldenavne: le BonRichard 'the Good'<br>Også kendt som: Richard II, Duke of NormandyDuke of Normandy<br>Køn: Mand<br>Fødsel: 23. aug. 963 - Normandie<br>Ægteskab: Ægtefælle: Judith de Bretagne Duchesse consort de Normandie - 996 - Normandy, France<br>Død: 28. aug. 1026 - Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France<br>Gravlagt: Fra 28. aug. 1026 - Abbaye de la Trinité de Fécamp, Fécamp, Normandy, France<br>Adelstitel: Duke of Normandie - Mellem 1. jan. 996 og 28. aug. 1026 - Normandie, France<br>Forældre: Richard I "San-Peur" Duc de Normandie, Gunnor "San-Peur" (født de Normandie)<br>Ægtefæller: Judith de Le Bon Duchesse consort de Normandie (født Bretagne), Poppa Le Bon (født of Envermeu)<br>Børn: Robert Ier “le Magnifique” Duc de Normandie, Richard III Duc de Normandie, Adélaïde de Bourgogne (født de Normandie), Guillaume de Normandie Monk, Éléonore Vlaanderen (født de Normandie), Mauger De Normandie Archbishop of Rouen, Guillaume de Normandie Count of Arques and Talou<br>Søskende: Geoffrey de Brionne comte d'Eu, Geoffrey de Brionne comte d'Eu, Mauger de Normandie Comte de Corbeil, Hawise de Bretagne, Guillaume I comte d'Eu, Robert Count Of Evreux Archbishop Of Rouen, Mathilde de Blois (født de Normandie), Princess Of Normandy Emma<br>Denne person har øjensynlig slægtningedubletter. Find personen i FamilySearch for at se den fulde information.<br> Yderligere information: <br> <br>LifeSketch: From Wikipedia963 – 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.d his father as Duke of Normandy in 996.[1] During his minority, the first five years of his reign, 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]y.[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]ngs had begun raiding England again, where they would subsequently cross the channel to Normandy and sell their plunder. Richard provided the Vikings with sanctuary and even welcomed them.[4] This act violated a treaty signed between his father Richard I and King Ethelred II of England, in which he agreed not to aid enemies of England following similar events of assisting the Danes.[4] As a result, Richard was forced to repel an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by Ethelred.[5] Ethelred had given orders that Richard be captured, bound and brought to England.[6] But the English had not been prepared for the rapid response of the Norman cavalry and were utterly defeated.[7]riage to King Ethelred.[5] This marriage was significant in that it later gave his grandson, William the Conqueror, the basis of his claim to the throne of England.[8] Emma with her two sons Edward and Alfred fled to Normandy followed shortly thereafter by her husband king Ethelred.[8] Soon after the death of Ethelred, Cnut the Great forced Emma to marry him while Richard was forced to recognize the new regime as his sister was again queen.[5] 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.[9]d. He stopped in Rouen and was well received and treated courteously by Richard, who concluded an alliance with him.[4] [10] portray his ducal ancestors as morally upright Christian leaders who built Normandy despite the treachery of their overlords and neighboring principalities.[11] 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.[12] Richard had ducal control, namely Caen, the Éverecin, the Cotentin, the Pays de Caux and Rouen.[14]irstly, c.1000, Judith (982–1017), daughter of Conan I of Brittany,[15][16] by whom he had the following issue:d I, Count of Burgundy[1]ndersilliam (c. 1020/5), count of Arques
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963 - 1026 (63 years)
