Family
Illegitimate Married/ Related to: Richard I 'the Fearless' of Normandy, Leader of the Normans of Rouen 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Born after 926 1) Died 21 Nov 996 Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France, at most 70 years 1) 5), 1st married/ related to: Gunnora Unknown, 2nd married/ related to: Illegitimate Children: 2. Geoffrey of Brionne, Count of Eu, Count of BrionneBorn 962 Died ± 1010, approximately 48 years Notes: Geoffrey of Brionne (962 - 1015), also called Godfrey was Count of Eu and Brionne in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. Orderic Vitalis identifies Geoffrey as a half brother of Robert II and therefore, a son of Richard I. |
Sources
1) Source: The Henry Project . External Linkhttps://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/richa000.htm. Reference: Richard I "Sans Peur" ("the Fearless") (Questionable reliability of evidence)
2) Source: Gesta Normannorum "Two years before his death. as frequently was my habit I was with the exceptional duke RICHARD. son of MARQUIS WILLIAM...yea indeed the rights which [Richard's son Richard] asserted in the realm of his great-grandfather ROLLO... son the still surviving patrician RICHARD. Reference: 1 (Data from secondary evidence)
3) Source: The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy: Volume III "After Rollo, a succession of valiant dukes commanded the warlike Normans ; namely, William Longsword, Richard the elder, Richard II., son of Gunnor, and his two sons, Richard the younger and Eobert of Jerusalem, and then "William the Bastard" (Data from secondary evidence)
4) Source: The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy: Volume III "For Richard, son of Gonnor, and duke of Normandy, was father of Robert I., whose son was William the Conqueror, the father of Duke Robert, who was father of William the Clito. On the other side, Robert the archbishop and count, who was brother of Duke Richard, had a son named Richard, count of Evreux, which Richard had a daughter called Agnes, wife of Simon, who bore Bertrade, Fulk's mother, and whose daughter Sibylla was." (Data from secondary evidence)
5) Source: Ademari Chronicon "Obiit quoque Richardus Rotomagensis, sepulturae traditus apud Fescannum, et pro eo successit Richardus, filius ejus.". Reference: 996 (Data from direct source)