Richard II of Normandy

Known as "Richard The Good", (French, "Le Bon"). He was the son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and the Duchess Gunnor. Succeeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 996.Richard held his own against a peasant insurrection, and helped Robert II of France against the duchy of Burgundy. He also repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred II the Unready. He pursued a reform of the Norman monasteries.

Related Topics:
French - Richard I the Fearless - Robert II of France - Burgundy - English - Cotentin Peninsula - Ethelred II - Norman - Monasteries

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Spouse:

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• m. (ca. 996), Judith, (d. 1017), daughter of Conan I, Duke of Brittany.
• m. Papia

Children from Judith

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• Richard III of Normandy
• Robert the Magnificent
• William, monk at Fécamp, d. 1025.
• Adélaide, m. Renaud I, Count of Burgundy.
• Eleanor (or perhaps Ainor or Judith), m. Count Baldwin IV of Flanders
• Matilda, d. 1033.

Children from Papia

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• Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen.
• William, Count of Arques.