Normandy

Adelaide of Normandy

Father: Robert I "le Magnifique"

Mother:
Adelaide was an illegitimate child of Robert I, duke of Normandy, as was William the Conqueror. William's mother is accepted to be a woman named Herleve, and some creditable sources (e.g. The Complete Peerage vol 1 p351 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Vicary Gibbs, 1910)) claim that Adelaide had the same mother, based, it seems on a statement by Robert de Torigny in Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book VIII p327, that Adelaide was William's "soror uterina" (uterine sister) which on the face of it would indicate the same mother, although historians disputing this point out the de Torigny uses this same phrase in other instances describing half-siblings whose mothers are known to be different. Furthermore, de Torigny, in his Chronicles, expressly states that William and Adelaide were born of different concubines.

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book VIII p327 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
Interpolation de Robert de Torigny
Roberto autem, filio Ricardi, successit filius suus primogenitus, natus ex quadam filiarum Wallevi, comitis Huntedoniae (2). Habuit enim idem Wallevus tres filias ex uxore sua, filia comitissae de Albamarla; quae comitissa fuit soror uterina Willelmi regis Anglorum senioris.
  (2) Robert, frère de Gilbert 1er de Tunbridge, épousa une fille de Waltheof, comte de Northampton et d’Huntingdon. Voir Orderic, t. III, p. 402. Waltheof lui-même avait épousé Judith, fille de la comtesse d’Aumale Aelize qui était la sœur utérine du Conquérant.
This roughly translates as:
Interpolation of Robert de Torigny
But Robert, the son of Richard, was succeeded by his eldest son, born of one of the daughters of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon (2). For the same Waltheof had three daughters by his wife, the daughter of the countess of Albamarla; which countess was the maternal sister of William the Elder, king of England.
  (2) Robert, brother of Gilbert I of Tunbridge, married a daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon. See Orderic, Vol. III, p. 402. Waltheof himself had married Judith, daughter of the countess of Aumale Aelize, who was the Conqueror's half-sister.

Roberti de Monte Auctarium A. 960-1052 in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica vol 6 p478 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1844)
1026. Mortuo Ricardo secundo duce Normannorum, filio primi Ricardi, successit ei filius eius Ricardus tercius. Hic genuit Nicolaum, postea abbatem Sancti Audoeni, et duas filias, Papiam videlicet uxorem Walterii de Sancto Walerico, et Aeliz, uxorem Ranulfi vicecomitis de Baiocis. Hic tercius Ricardus eodem primo anno ducatus sui mortuus est, et successit ei Robertas frater eius, qui genuit Willelmum de Herleva non sponsata, qui postea Angliam conquisivit, et imam filiam nomine Aeliz de alia concubina.
This roughly translates as:
This third Richard died in the same first year of his dukedom, and was succeeded by his brother Robert, who fathered, by Herleva, William, who afterwards conquered England, and a second daughter named Aeliz by another concubine.

Married (1st): Enguerrand II, count of Ponthieu

Enguerrand was the son of Hugues de Ponthieu and Bertha d'Aumal. At the Council of Reims in 1049, when the marriage of William (later the Conqueror) with Matilda of Flanders was prohibited based on consanguinity, so was that of Enguerrand, who was already married to Adelaide. Adelaide's marriage was apparently annulled at that time, although Adelaide seems to have still retained Enguerrand's lands in Aumale in dower after his death in an ambush at St. Aubin, near Arques, in 1053.

Children:
Married (2nd): Lambert de Boulogne

Children:
Married (3rd): Eudes, count of Champagne

Eudes was deprived of Champagne by his uncle Thibaut before 1071. He died in prison following a failed rebellion against William II, probably in 1108.

Children:
Occupation: Countess of Aumale. She is mentioned in Domesday Book as "Comitissa de Albamarla", holding some manors in Essex and Suffolk.

Notes:
The Complete Peerage vol 1 pp351-2 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Vicary Gibbs, 1910)
  ADELAIDE(a) or ADELIZ, sister of William the Conqueror(b)  being illeg. da. of Robert, Duke of the Normans, by Herleve or Harlotte, da. of Fulbert or Robert, a pelliparius of Falaise, is mentioned in Domesday as Comitissa de Albamarla, and as holding some manors in Essex and Suffolk. In 1082, William, King of the English, and Maud, his wife, gave to the Abbey of La Trinité at Caen the bourg of Le Homme (de Hulmo) in the Côtentin, “sed et Comitissa A. de Albamarla concedente eo videlicet pacto ut ipsa teneret in vita sua.” (c) Adelaide m., 1stly, Enguerrand II, COUNT OF PONTHIEU, who d. s.p.m., being slain in 1053.(d) She m., 2ndly, Lambert, (a) COUNT OF LENS in Artois, who d. s.p.m., being slain in 1054.  She m., 3rdly, Eudes, (b) the disinherited COUNT OF CHAMPAGNE, who had taken refuge in Normandy.(c) She d. before 1090.(d) Her husband obtained Holderness after the date of Domesday. (e) Having conspired against William II in 1094, he was imprisoned in 1096. He occurs as Comes Odo in the Lindsey Survey (1115-18).
  (a) For some discussion on mediæval English names, see vol. iii, Appendix C.  V.G.
  (b) The pedigree of the earlier possessors of Aumale has been investigated by T.Stapleton in Archaeologia, vol. xxvi, pp. 349-360. There he supposed he had proved that Orderic was wrong in stating that the wife of Count Eudes of Champagne was da. of Duke Robert, and, that she was really the Duke’s grand-daughter. Later on, he discovered his own error. His amended conclusions are in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vi, p. 265, and, at greater length, in Rot. Scacc. Norm., vol. ii, pp. xxix-xxxi. He had, however, in the meantime misled Poulson (Holderness, vol. i, p. 24 sqq.).
  (c) Gallia Christ., vol. xi, instr., c. 68-72. Stapleton always misdates this charter.
  (d) A charter of the Church of St. Martin, at Auchy (now Aumale), narrates its foundation “a viro quodam videlicet Guerinfrido qui condidit castellum quod Albamarla nuncupatur in externis partibus Normannie super flumen quod Augus dicitur,” this charter being drawn up “jussu Enguerrani consulis qui filius fuit Berte supradicti Guerinfridi filie et Adelidis comitisse uxoris sue sororis scilicet Wilielmi Regis Anglorum,” and mentioning “Addelidis comitissa supradicti Engueranni et supradicte Adelidis filia que post obitum illorum in imperio successit,” and also “Judita comitissa domine supradicte filia.” (Archaeologia, ibid., pp. 358-60). As to Judith, in the Vita et passio venerahilis viri Gualdevi comitis Huntendonie et Norhantonie (an MS. of the 13th century in the Douai library), printed by F. Michel, Chron. Anglo-Normandes, vol. ii, it is stated, p. 112, that King William gave to Waltheof “in uxorem neptem suam Ivettam, filiam comitis Lamberti de Lens, sororem nobilis viri Stephani comitis de Albemarlia.” The following pedigree illustrates this descent.
          Guerinfrey. He built the castle of Aumale. =
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              Berthe, da. and h. = Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu. d. 20 Nov. 1051.
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             Enguerrand, Count of Ponthieu and Sire d'Aumale. Slain at the siege of Arques in 1053.
= 1. Adelaide, sister of William the Conqueror. She is styled Countess of Aumale. d. before 1090.
                     |
              Adelaide. Living 1096
        = 2. Lambert de Boulogne. Count of Lens. Slain in battle at Lille in 1054.
                     |
               Judith, m. Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon.
       = 3. Eudes, Count of Champagne; deprived of Champagne by his uncle Thibaut before 1071.
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                Stephen, Count 1096.  of Aumale.
  (a) He was yr. s. of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, by Mahaut, da. of Lambert I, Count of Louvain.
  (b) He was s. and h. of Stephen II, Count of Champagne, by Adele, whose parentage is unknown.
  (c) A charter to the Church of St. Martin at Auchy, was written by command of Adelidis the most noble Comitissa, sister to wit of William, King of the English, “confirmante viro suo videlicet Odone comite una cum filio suo Stephano.” (Stapleton, Rot. Scacc. Norm., vol. ii, p. xxxi).
  (d) It is here assumed that it was the sister of the Conqueror, and not her da. of the same name, who is mentioned in Domesday. Stapleton says of the former that “she did not long survive her br.. King William,” but there is nothing definite known beyond that she was living in 1082 and dead in 1090. There seems to be no charter in which the younger Adelaide is called Countess. The charter of her half-brother, Stephen, dated 14 July 1096, is “consensu simul et corroboratione sororis mee Adelidis,” showing she had some rights on Aumale. It is not very clear what they were, though she is said in the charter quoted above to have succeeded “in imperio.” Nothing further seems to be known about her, but Count Stephen had eventually the whole inheritance.
  (e) Count Eudes and his s., Stephen, gave the manor and church of Hornsea (in Holderness) to the Abbey of St. Mary at York. (Monasticon, vol. iii, p. 548).

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 pp122-6 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
Enguerrand, or Ingleram, Sire d’Aumale in right of his mother, who married Adelaide, sister of the Conqueror, and was killed in an ambush at St. Aubin, near Arques, in 1053, leaving an only daughter, named Adelaide after her mother, and having settled on his wife the lands of Aumale in dower. The widow of Enguerrand, being still young,  married secondly, and in the first year of her widowhood, Lambert, Count of Lens, in Artois, and brother of Eustace II., Count of Boulogne, and had by him a daughter, named Judith, whose hand was given by her uncle, William the Conqueror, to Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland. Count Lambert could scarcely have seen the birth of his child, for he was killed at Lille the following year, in a battle between Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the Emperor Henry III. A widow for the second time, and still in the prime of life, she married, thirdly, Odo of Champagne, by whom she was the mother of Stephen, who, on the death of his elder sister Adelaide, became the first Comte d’Aumale, or Earl of Albemarle, the Seigneurie having been made a Comte by King William, but upon what occasion and at what time we have no evidence.
  The name of Adeliza with the title of “Comitissa de Albemarle” occurs in Domesday, but not that of Odo, which first appears in connection with English transactions in 1088 (1st of William Rufus), when Count Odo and his son Stephen gave the manor and church of Hornsea, in the wapentake of Holderness, to the Abbey of St. Mary of York.
… Whether the expatriated Count of Champagne fleshed his maiden sword at Senlac or not, he appears to have made no mark either for good or for evil in the annals of this country till, misled by ambition, he was induced to join in the conspiracy the collapse of which has given him an unenviable reputation in them.
  History is quite silent about him until after the death of the Conqueror, when we are told that Odo found himself embarrassed by his position as a feudatory of William Rufus in England and of Robert Court-heuse in Normandy. He owed allegiance to each; but how could he serve two masters who were at war with one another? He decided in favour of Rufus, and received an English garrison in his Castle of Aumale, which, in conjunction with his son Stephen, he enlarged and strengthened, at the expense of the royal treasury, on the invasion of Normandy by the Red King in 1090.
  Five years afterwards, however, he joined in a conspiracy with Robert de Mowbray, William d’Eu, and other disaffected nobles, to depose Rufus and place his own son Stephen d’Aurnale upon the throne.
  The conspiracy failing in consequence of timely warning having been given to the King, Odo and his son were both arrested, the former thrown into a prison, from which he never emerged alive, and the latter condemned to have his eyes put out; but the piteous prayers of his wife and family, to say nothing of the payment of a considerable sum of money, obtained a remission of his sentence and restoration to liberty. How long Odo lingered in his dungeon is unknown. The exact date of his death is as uncertain as nearly every other part of his history, but it is presumed to have taken place in 1108.

Sources:
Richard I
Richard I, duke of Normandy, as depicted in the Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings (1275-1300) - BL Royal MS 14 B V
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Statue of Richard I
Statue of Richard I "Sans-Peur" as part of the Six Dukes of Normandy set of statues in the Falaise town square, Normandy, France
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Richard I of Normandy

Birth: 931 or 932
Richard was aged 10 when his father died in 942 (Orderici Vitalis Historiæ ecclesiasticæ libri tredecim liber III vol 2 p9 (ed. Augustus Le Prevost, 1840)).

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book III pp33-4 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        II [II]
… Regresso igitur eo de prelio, a prefecto Fiscannensis castri legatus dirigitur, deferens ex quadam nobilissima puella sibi Danico more juncta, nomine Sprota, filium esse natum. Qui, letus valde effectus, sub festinatione Bajocas illum episcopo Henrico mandavit dirigere (1), ut per ipsius manus sacro lotum fonte proprio nomine vocaret eum Ricardum. Cujus jussa presul gratanter complens puerum chrismate delibutum Fiscanum remittit nutriendum.
  (1) Guillaume de Jumièges copie de travers Dudon qui veut dire que l’évêque de Bayeux vint à Fécamp baptiser l’enfant, et non pas que l’enfant fut envoyé à Bayeux. Voir Lair, p. 191 de l’éd . de Dudon.
This roughly translates as:
        II [II]
… So when he returned from the battle, he was sent by the prefect of the castle of Fiscan, as a legate, reporting that a son had been born to him by a certain noble maiden, married to him in the Danish manner, named Sprota. He, greatly distressed, in haste ordered him to be sent to Bishop Henry of Bajocas (1), so that he might be washed by his own hands in a holy fountain and he would name him Richard. The prefect, gratefully fulfilling his orders, sent the child, anointed with chrism, back to Fiscan to be raised.
  (1) William of Jumièges incorrectly copies Dudon, who means that the Bishop of Bayeux came to Fécamp to baptize the child, and not that the child was sent to Bayeux. See Lair, p. 191 of Dudon's ed.

Father: William I of Normandy

Mother: Sprota

Married (1st): Emma in 960
Flodoardi annales in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 3 p405 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1839)
  Anno 960
... Richardus filius Willelmi, Nortmannorum principis, filiam Hugonis, Transequani quondam principis, ducit uxorem.
This roughly translates as:
In the year 960 ... Richard, son of William, prince of the Northmen, marries the daughter of Hugh, formerly prince of the Seine.

Emma was the daughter of Hugh the Great. She died childless.

Married (2nd): Gunnor

for Gunnor's family, see Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book VII p322 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book IV pp68-9 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        XVIII [XVIII]
  Qua tempestate (2) Emma, uxor ejus, filia Magni Hugonis, moritur absque liberis. Ipse vero non multo post quamdam speciosissimam virginem, nomine Gunnor (3), ex nobilissima Danorum prosapia ortam, sibi in matrimonium christiano more desponsavit, ex qua filios genuit, Ricardum (4) videlicet et Rodbertum (5) atque Malgerium (6), et duos alios (7), necnon filias tres. Quarum una, nomine Emma (1), Edelredo, regi Anglorum, nupsit, de qua idem rex Edwardum regem necnon Alvredum, Goduini comitis longo post dolis interemptum, procreavit. Secunda vero (2), Hadvis vocata, Goiffredo Britannorum juncta comiti, Alannum et Eudonem duces progenuit. Tertia quidem comiti Odoni, nomine Mathildis (3), de qua sermo orietur in posteris.
  (2) Dudon, IV, 125, p. 288-289. Mais, dans ce chapitre, à partir de: «Ex qua duos filios», Guillaume de Jumièges ne suit plus Dudon .
  (3) L’origine de Gonnor semble avoir été en réalité moins noble. Cf. infra le récit que Robert de Torigny nous a laissé de la rencontre de Gonnor et de Richard 1er.
  (4) Le futur Richard II.
  (5) Robert, archevêque de Rouen de 989 à 1037.
  (6) Mauger qui devint plus tard comte de Corbeil par son mariage avec la fille du comte Aimon. Mauger fut le père ou le grand-père de Guillaume Guerlenc, comte de Mortain.
  (7) Geoffroi, comte de Brionne, est l’un de ces deux fils.
  (1) Emme, femme du roi d’Angleterre Ethelred, qui monta sur le trône en 978, fut chassé d’Angleterre en 1013 par le Danois Suénon, et mourut en 1016.
  (2) Havois ou Havoise épousa Geoffroi 1er, comte de Rennes, de 992 à 1008.
  (3) Voir sur le mariage de Mathilde avec Eudes de Chartres, infra, livre V, chap. X.
This roughly translates as:
        XVIII [XVIII]
  At which time (2) Emma, ​​his wife, daughter of Hugh the Great, died childless. But not long after, he betrothed to himself in Christian marriage a very beautiful maiden, named Gunnor (3), of the noblest lineage of the Danes, by whom he had sons, namely Richard (4) and Rodbert (5) and Mauger (6), and two others (7), as well as three daughters. One of whom, named Emma (1), married Ethelred, king of the English, by whom the same king begat King Edward and Alfred, who was long after slain by the deceit of Earl Godwin. But the second (2), called Hadvis, married Earl Geoffrey of the Britons and bore him the dukes Alan and Eudon. The third, indeed, to Earl Odo, named Mathilde (3), of whom there will be a story in posterity.
  (2) Dudo, IV, 125, pp. 288-289. But, in this chapter, starting with "Ex qua duos filios," William of Jumièges no longer follows Dudo.
  (3) Gonnor's origins seem to have been less noble in reality. See below the account that Robert of Torigny left us of the meeting of Gonnor and Richard I.
  (4) The future Richard II.
  (5) Robert, Archbishop of Rouen from 989 to 1037.
  (6) Mauger, who later became Count of Corbeil through his marriage to the daughter of Count Aimon. Mauger was the father or grandfather of William Guerlenc, Count of Mortain.
  (7) Geoffroi, Count of Brionne, is one of these two sons. (1) Emme, wife of King Ethelred of England, who ascended the throne in 978, was driven from England in 1013 by the Dane Suénon, and died in 1016.
  (2) Havois or Havoise married Geoffrey I, Count of Rennes, from 992 to 1008.
  (3) See on the marriage of Matilda to Eudes of Chartres, infra, Book V, Chapter X.

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book VIII pp322-3 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
INTERPOLATIONS DE ROBERT DE TORIGNY
        [XXXVI]
  Relatio quomodo ipsa Gonnor primo Ricardo, duci Normanniae copulata fuerit matrimonio.
  Et quia (6) de Gunnore comitissa fecimus mentionem, causa matris Rogerii de Monte Gummerii, quae fuit neptis ejusdem comitissae, libet litterarum memoriae commendare, sicut ab antiquis didici, qualiter ad conjugium comitis Ricardi eadem Gunnor accesserit. Igitur Ricardus comes, audita fama pulchritudinis conjugis cujusdam sui forestarii, manentis haud procul ab oppido Arcarum, villa quae dicitur Schechevilla (1), ex industria ivit venatum illuc, volens probare si verum esset, quod relatione quorumdam perceperat. Hospitatur igitur in domo forestarii, illectusque venustate vultus uxoris ipsius, precepit hospiti suo quod ipsa nocte adduceret ad cubiculum suum uxorem suam Sainfriam: sic enim vocabatur. Quod cum ille eidem tristior retulisset, illa, ut sapiens mulier, consolata est eum, dicens supposituram in loco suo Gunnorem, sororem suam, virginem quamplurimum seipsa pulchriorem. Quod et factum est. Cognita denique tali fraude, delectatus est dux, quod non incurrisset peccando in alienam uxorem. Genuit itaque ex Gunnore filios tres, et totidem filias, ut in libro, qui de gestis ejusdem ducis scriptus est, superius invenitur (2). Cum vero idem comes quemdam filium suum, nomine Robertum, vellet fieri archiepiscopum Rothomagensem, responsum est ei a quibusdam hoc nullatenus secundum scita canonum posse esse, ideo quod mater ejus non fuisset desponsata. Hac itaque causa comes Ricardus Gunnorem comitissam more christiano sibi copulavit, filiique, qui jam ex ea nati erant, interim dum sponsalia agerentur, cum patre et matre pallio cooperti sunt, et sic postea Robertus factus est archiepiscopus Rothomagensis.
  (6) Robert de Torigny semble utiliser ici des traditions circulant dans la famille de Montgommery. Ce récit sur les origines de Gonnor semble assez plausible, bien qu’à la vérité il ne soit confirmé par aucun texte contemporain.
  (1) Sauqueville est situé non loin d’Arques.
  (2) Guillaume de Jumièges, livre IV, chap. [XVIII].
 This roughly translates as:
INTERPOLATIONS OF ROBERT DE TORIGNY
        [XXXVI]
  An account of how the same Gunnor was first married to Richard, Duke of Normandy.
  And since (6) we have made mention of countess Gunnor, on account of the mother of Roger de Monte Gummer, who was the niece of the same countess, I am pleased to commend to the memory of literature, as I have learned from the ancients, how the same Gunnor came to the marriage of count Richard. Therefore count Richard, having heard the fame of the beauty of the wife of a certain forester of his, who dwelt not far from the town of Arca, in a village called Schecheville (1), deliberately went there hunting, wishing to prove whether what he had heard from some people was true. He therefore lodged in the house of the forester, and, enticed by the beauty of his wife's countenance, ordered his host to bring his wife Sainfri to his chamber that very night: for so she was called. When he had told her this in sorrow, she, as a wise woman, consoled him, saying that she would substitute in his place Gunnor, her sister, a virgin much more beautiful than herself. Which was done. Finally, having learned of such a fraud, the duke was delighted that he had not fallen into the sin of sinning against another man's wife. So he fathered three sons by Gunnor, and as many daughters, as is found above in the book written about the deeds of the same duke (2). But when the same count wished a certain son of his, named Robert, to become Archbishop of Rouen, he was told by some that this could not be done according to the known canons, because his mother had not been betrothed. For this reason, count Richard married countess Gunnor to himself in Christian fashion, and the sons who had already been born of her, while the betrothal was being celebrated, were covered with a cloak with their father and mother, and so Robert afterwards became Archbishop of Rouen.
  (6) Robert de Torigny seems to be using traditions circulating in the Montgomery family. This account of Gonnor's origins seems quite plausible, although it is not, in truth, confirmed by any contemporary text.
  (1) Sauqueville is located not far from Arques.
  (2) William of Jumièges, book IV, chapter [XVIII].

Children:
Richard had other children by unknown mistresses.

Children:
Silver penny from the reign of Richard I of Normandy
Silver denier from the reign of Richard I of Normandy, minted in Rouen.
Obverse: Short cross with a pellet in each quadrant, with "RICARDVSI" around.
Reverse: X with a church roof surmounted by a cross, with pellets between the arms of the X, with "ROTO MAGVS" around.
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Occupation: Leader of the Normans of Rouen, 942-996.

Richard was minor when his father William was assassinated in 942. It was largely during Richard's long period of rule that what eventually became the duchy of Normandy evolved from what was essentially a pirate principality into a feudal state. Richard is described by such a wide range of words (comes, marchio, consul, princeps, dux) by various sources that it would be difficult to argue that there is a specific "title" by which he should be called. Richard was succeeded by his son Richard II in 996.

Notes:
Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book IV pp69-71 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        XIX [XIX]
  Cum igitur (4) dux Ricardus multorum operum bonorum polleret incrementis, inter plurima commercia summae opinionis, apud Fiscannum mirae magnitudinis et pulchritudinis in honore Deificae Trinitatis templum construxit, mirificisque ornamentis multimode adornavit. Abbatias quoque quasdam instauravit, unam siquidem in suburbio Rothomagensi, in honore sancti Petri almique Audoeni (5), aliamque in monte, qui dicitur Tumba (6), in veneratione archangeli Michaelis, gregibusque monachorum insignivit . … Erat autem statura procerus, vultu decorus, integer corpore, barba prolixa, cano decoratus capite, piissimus monachorum amator, pauperum sustentator, orphanorum tutor, viduarum defensor, captivorum redemptor.
  (4) Dudon, IV, 126, p. 290-292. La dédicace de l’église de Fécamp eut lieu en 990.
  (5) Saint-Ouen de Rouen.
  (6 ) Le Mont-Saint-Michel fut restauré en 965-966.
This roughly translates as:
        XIX [ XIX ]
  When Duke Richard was then (4) prosperous in the growth of many good works, among many trades of the highest reputation, he built at Fécamp a temple of wonderful size and beauty in honor of the Divine Trinity, and adorned it in many ways with wonderful ornaments. He also established certain abbeys, one indeed in the suburb of Rouen, in honor of Saint Peter and the alms of Audoen (5), and another on the mountain, which is called Tumba (6), in the veneration of the archangel Michael, and he endowed it with flocks of monks. … He was also tall in stature, handsome in appearance, healthy in body, with a long beard, and his head adorned with gray hair, a most pious lover of monks, a supporter of the poor, a guardian of orphans, a defender of widows, and a redeemer of captives.
  (4) Dudo, IV, 126, pp. 290-292. The dedication of the church of Fécamp took place in 990.
  (5) Saint-Ouen of Rouen.
  (6) Mont-Saint-Michel was restored in 965-966.

Roberti de Monte Auctarium A. 960-1052 in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica vol 6 p478 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1844)
996. Obiit primus — secundus. Ipse Ricardus apud Fiscannum, pater Willermus et Rollo avus apud Rothomagum requiescunt.
This roughly translates as:
996. The first died — the second. Richard himself rests at Fiscan, his father William and his grandfather Rollo at Rouen.

The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis book 3 chapter 1 p381 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  In the year of our Lord 942, when Lewis was king of the Franks, Duke William was murdered by the treachery of Aruulph governor of Flanders; and Richard his son, then a boy of twelve* years of age, became duke of Normandy, and through various turns of fortune, some prosperous and some adverse, held the dukedom fifty-four years. Among his other good deeds, he founded three monasteries, one at Fecamp, dedicated to the Holy Trinity,1 another at Mont St. Michel in honour of St. Michael the archangel, and the third at Rouen in honour of St. Peter the apostle, and St. Ouen the archbishop.
  In the year of our Lord 996, on the death of Richard the elder, he was succeeded by Richard Gonorrides his son,2
  1 Richard I. founded a college of canons at Fécamp, the church of which was dedicated in 990, but they were not replaced by monks till after the year 1101, at which time also the abbey of St. Ouen was restored, and therefore under Richard’s successor.
  2 Gonnor was second wife of Richard I. For the singular occurrences which introduced this lady into the ducal family, see the continuator of William de Jumièges, book viii. c. 36.
* The Latin Orderici Vitalis Historiæ ecclesiasticæ libri tredecim liber III vol 2 p9 (ed. Augustus Le Prevost, 1840) states 10 years of age "Willielmus dux occisus est, et Ricardus filius ejus, qui tunc decem annorum, erat, dux Normannorum factus est"

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the kings of England pp171-2 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1847)
[Emma] was the daughter of Richard, earl of Normandy, the son of William, who, after his father, presided over that earldom for fifty-two years, and died in the twenty-eighth year of this king. He lies at the monastery of Fescamp, which he augmented with certain revenues, and which he adorned with a monastic order, by means of William, formerly abbat of Dijon. Richard was a distinguished character, and had also often harassed Ethelred: which, when it became known at Rome, the holy see, not enduring that two Christians should be at enmity, sent Leo, bishop of Treves, into England, to restore peace: the epistle describing this legation was as follows:—“John the fifteenth, pope of the holy Roman church, to all faithful people, health. Be it known to all the faithful of the holy mother church, and our children spiritual and secular, dispersed through the several climates of the world, that inasmuch as we had been informed by many of the enmity between Ethelred, king of the West-Saxons, and Richard the marquis, and were grieved sorely at this, on account of our spiritual childen; taking, therefore, wholesome counsel, we summoned one of our legates, Leo, bishop of the holy church of Treves, and sent him with our letters, admonishing them, that they should return from their ungodliness. He, passing vast spaces, at length crossed the sea, and, on the day of the Lord’s nativity, came into the presence of the said king; whom, having saluted on our part, he delivered to him the letters we had sent. And all the faithful people of liis kingdom, and senators of either order, being summoned, he granted, for love and fear of God Almighty, and of St. Peter, the chief of the apostles, and on account of our paternal admonition, the firmest peace for all his sons and daughters, present and future, and all his faithful people, without deceit. On which account he sent Edelsin, prelate of the holy church of Sherborne, and Leofstan, son of Alfwold, and Edelnoth, son of Wulstan, who passed the maritime boundaries, and came to Richard, the said marquis. He, peaceably receiving our admonitions, and hearing the determination of the said king, readily confirmed the peace for his sons and daughters, present and future, and for all his faithful people, with this reasonable condition, that if any of their subjects, or they themselves, should commit any injustice against each other, it should be duly redressed; and that peace should remain for ever unshaken and confirmed by the oath of both parties: on the part of king Ethelred, to wit, Edelsin, prelate of the holy church of Sherborne; Leofstan, the son of Alfwold; Edelnoth, the son of Wulstan. On the part of Richard, Roger, the bishop; Rodolph, son of Hugh; Truteno, the son of Thurgis.
  Done at Rouen, on the kalends of March, in the year of our Lord 991, the fourth of the indiction. Moreover, of the king’s subjects, or of his enemies, let Richard receive none, nor the king of his, without their respective seals.”

The History Of The Norman Conquest Of England vol 1 pp206-7 (Edward A. Freeman, 1877)
    § 4. Reign of Richard the Fearless. 943-996.
  William Longsword left one son, Richard, surnamed the Fearless, born of a Breton mother Sprota, who stood, as we have seen, to Duke William in that doubtful position in which she might, in different mouths, be called an honourable matron, a concubine, or a harlot.1 Her son had been taught both the languages of his country, and he was equally at home in Romance Rouen and in Scandinavian Bayeux,1 Whether his birth were strictly legitimate or not was a matter of very little moment either in Norman or in Frankish eyes. If a man was of princely birth and showed a spirit worthy of his forefathers, few cared to pry over minutely into the legal or canonical condition of his mother. The young Richard had been already, without any difficulty, acknowledged by the Norman and Breton chiefs as his father’s future successor in the duchy,2 and he now found as little difficulty in obtaining a formal ininvestiture of the fief from his lord King Lewis.3
  1 See above, p. 180, and Appendix X.
  1  See above, p, 192.
  2 Dudo, 112 D.
  3 Flod. A. 943. “Rex Ludowicus filio ipsius Willelmi, nato de concubina Brittanna, terram Nortmannorum dedit.” So more fully in Richer, ii. 34.
pp210-8
  Great disturbances in Normandy followed on the unlooked-for death of William Longsword. A new invasion or settlement direct from the North seems to have happened nearly at the same time as the Duke’s murder; it may even possibly have happened with the Duke’s consent. At any rate the heathen King Sihtric now sailed up the Seine with a fleet, and he was at once welcomed by the Danish and heathen party in the country. Large numbers of the Normans, under a chief named Thurmod, fell away from Christianity, and it appears that the young Duke himself was persuaded or constrained to join in their heathen worship.2  … Meanwhile the King marched to Rouen, he gathered what forces he could, seemingly both from among his own subjects and from among the Christian Normans; he fought a battle, he utterly defeated the heathens, he killed Thurmod with his own hand, he recovered the young Duke, and left Herlwin of Montreuil as his representative at Rouen.
… Lewis then, according to this account, remains at Rouen, and a suspicion gets afloat that he is keeping the young Duke a prisoner, and that he means to seize on Normandy for himself. A popular insurrection follows, which is only quelled by the King producing Richard in public and solemnly investing him with the duchy. After this, strange to say, the Norman regents, Bernard the Dane, Oslac, and Rudolf surnamed Torta, are won over by the craft of Lewis to allow him to take Richard to Laon and bring him up with his own children. The King is then persuaded by tlie bribes of Arnulf to treat Richard as a prisoner, and even to threaten him with a cruel mutilation. By a clever stratagem of his faithful guardian Osmund, the same by which Lewis himself had been rescued in his childhood from Herbert of Vermandois, Richard is saved from captivity, and carried to the safe-keeping of his great-uncle, Bernard of Senlis.
…  Harold, surnamed Blaatand, Blue-tooth or Black-tooth … acted there as a disinterested friend of the Norman Duke and his subjects. … Harold defeated Lewis in a battle on the banks of the Dive … He passed through the land, confirming the authority of the young Duke, and restoring the laws of Rolf.
  2 Flod. A. 943; Richer, ii. 35. The Norman writers pass over their Duke’s apostasy, which of course proves very little as to the personal disposition of a mere child, though it proves a great deal as to the general state of things in the country. But Flodoard and Richer are both explicit. “Turmodum Nortmannura, qui ad idolatriam gentilemque ritum reversus, ad haec etiam filium Willelmi aliosque cogebat.” (Flod.) “Ut . . . defunct! ducis filium adc idolatriam suadeant, ritumque gentilem inducant.” (Richer.)
pp230-6
Richard wrought great changes within his own dominions, and he had many enemies to contend against without; still the greater part of his reign was no longer one incessant struggle, like the reign of his father and his own early days. For some years wars and disputes went on almost as vigorously as before; but for many years before his death Richard seems to have enjoyed a time of comparative peace, which he devoted to the consolidation of his power within his own states, and in a great degree to the erection and enrichment of ecclesiastical foundations.
… The duchy of France, like the kingdom and the duchy of Normandy, now passed to a minor. Hugh, surnamed Capet, the future King, succeeded his father at the age of thirteen years. On account of his youth, he was left by his father’s will under the guardianship of the Duke of the Normans. Besides the close political connexion between the two princes, Richard was betrothed to Emma, daughter of the elder and sister of the younger Hugh, whom some years later he married.
p254
Richard, unlike his father, was munificent in his gifts to the Church, especially to his new, or rather restored, foundation of Fécamp and to the still more famous house of Saint Michael in Peril of the Sea. The original foundation of Fécamp was for secular canons. It was only in the days of the second Richard that the Benedictine rule was introduced. Fécamp, alone among the great monasteries of the Norman mainland, stands in the land north-east of the Seine; all the rest lie either in the valley of the river or in the true Norman districts to the west of it. Fécamp, like Westminster, Holyrood, and the Escurial, contained minster and palace in close neighbourhood; the spot became a favourite dwelling-place of Richard in his later days, and it was at last the place of his burial. The last years of his reign present only one important event, a dispute, possibly a war, with the English King Æthelred, a discussion of which I reserve for a place in the next chapter in my more detailed narrative of English affairs. At last, Richard the Fearless, Duke of the Pirates as he is called to the last by the French historians, died of  “the lesser apoplexy,” after a reign of fifty-three years.

Death: 21 November 996, in Fécamp, Normandy, of  “the lesser apoplexy”

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book IV pp71-2 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        XX [XX]
  His (1) et hujus modi boni odoris flosculis in laicali habitu redolens gemma Christi egritudine corporis cepit vehementer aggravari. Convocatoque Rodulfo comite, suo equidem uterino fratre, consilium exigit de patriae dispositione. Qui nimio turbatus dolore, ac aliquantisper factus elinguis novissime, consumpto spiritu, haec responsa reddit duci: «Quamvis, dulcissime frater atque serenissime senior, viribus corporis videaris destitui, tamen, dum in hac vita te gaudemus amplecti, tuum est de totius patriae statu disponere.» Quo audito, dux, suis undique optimatibus ascitis, Ricardum, filium suum, coram exponit, hoc eum commendans et preficiens eloquio: «Hactenus, commilitones optimi, vestrae militiae prefui; nunc, vocante Deo, morbo crudescente, compellor a vobis separari. Proinde, si mei aliquando amatores fuistis, oro vos ut hunc meum filium loco mei vobis preferatis, eique fideles sitis, sicut mihi semper fuistis. Jam enim me ingredientem viam universae carnis ulterius habere non potestis, deposito onere vitae corruptibilis. His ab eo lugubre prolatis, protinus tota domus concutitur gemitibus et lacrimis. Tandem, fletibus sopitis, assensum prebent ducis voluntati, Ricardum adolescentem, pacta ei fidelitate, equanimiter collaudantes principem. Dehinc, languore ingravescente, lecto prosternitur, et, libratis sursum oculis, inter verba orationis plenus dierum spiritum efflavit.
  Huc usque digesta, prout a Rodulfo comite, hujus ducis fratre, magno et honesto viro, narrata sunt , collegi; quae scolastico dictamine conscripta relinquo posteris. Obiit autem apud Fiscannum Ricardus dux primus, flentibus populis, gaudentibus angelis, nongentesimo nonagesimo sexto anno ab Incarnatione Domini, regnante Domino nostro Jesu Christo, qui cum Patre et Spiritu sancto vivit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen.
  (1) Dudon, IV, 128.
This roughly translates as:
        XX [XX]
  With these (1) and this kind of fragrant flowers in a layman's habit, the gem of Christ began to be greatly aggravated by the illness of his body. And summoning Count Rodolfo, his own brother by blood, he demanded advice about the disposition of his country. He, greatly troubled by grief, and for a while rendered speechless, finally, having exhausted his spirit, made these answers to the duke: "Although, most sweet brother and most serene elder, you seem to be deprived of bodily strength, nevertheless, while we rejoice to embrace you in this life, it is yours to dispose of the state of the whole country." Upon hearing this, the duke, surrounded by his nobles on all sides, presented Richard, his son, before him, commending him and prefacing this speech: "Thus far, my best fellow soldiers, I have been in charge of your military service; now, at God's call, with a growing illness, I am compelled to be separated from you. Therefore, if you have ever been my lovers, I beg you to prefer this son of mine to yourself, and to be faithful to him, as you have always been to me. For now you cannot have me entering the path of the whole flesh any longer, having laid aside the burden of a corruptible life. When he had uttered these mournfully, the whole house was immediately shaken with groans and tears. At last, their weeping having subsided, they gave their assent to the duke's will, the young Richard, having promised him fidelity, and praising the prince with equanimity. Then, his languor increasing, he prostrated himself on the bed, and, lifting his eyes upward, amidst words of prayer, he breathed his last, full of days.
  I have collected up to this point the things that have been narrated by Count Rudolf, the duke's brother, a great and honorable man; which I leave to posterity, written down according to the dictates of a scholastic. Now Richard, the first duke, died at Fiscan, with the people weeping and the angels rejoicing, in the nine hundred and ninety-sixth year from the Incarnation of the Lord, during the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
  (1) Dudo, IV, 128.

Tomb in Fecamp monastery
The supposed tomb of both Richard I and Richard II, inscribed with their names, at Fécamp Abbey. However, in 2016, the tomb was opened by Norwegian researchers who discovered that the interred remains could not have been those of Richard, as testing revealed that they were much older. Although it is not in doubt that Richard was buried in the Abbey in 996, it is known that his remains were moved within the Abbey several times after his burial.
photo by Giogo (2012) posted on wikipedia
Buried: at the monastery at Fécamp, Normandy

Sources:

Richard II, Duke of Normandy

Father: Richard I, Duke of Normandy

Mother: Gunnor

Married (1st): Judith de Rennes

This marriage contract established Judith's dowry.
Thesaurus novus anecdotorum vol 1 pp122-3 (Edmond Martène, Ursin Durand, 1717)
DOTALITIUM JUDITHAE
      comitiſſæ Normanniæ,
…… Conſtituta ſunt priſcorum ſanƈtione Patrum, & in utriuſque novi ac veteris teſtamenti pagina invenitur ſcriptum … Creator omnium legitimam conjunƈtionem viri ac mulieris præceperit, ſicut ſcriptum eſt: Creavit Deus hominem ai imaginem & ſimilitudinem ſuam; maſculum & feminam creavit eos, dum fabricavit Evam de una ex coſtis viri ſui Adæ, & dixit: Quamobrem relinquet homo patrem & matrem, adharebit uxori ſua, & erunt duo in carne una. Ipſe Deus conditor omnium, quod dixerat diſponens. … creſcite, & multiplicamini in finem, ſicuti per unigenitum Filium ſuum Dominum Jeſum Chriſtum deſignavit, dum olim in Cana Galileæ vocatus ad nuptias, pariter cum matre & diſcipulis venit idem Redemtor, ipſaſque nuptias ſua præſentia ſanƈtificavit, & cum adcumbentibus ſimul recubuit, & ibi aquam deificâ poteſtate, propter amorem novæ, prolis, in vinum convertit; corda namque diſcipulorum ſuorum inibi ad fidem roboravit, & anulum fidei in ſuam ſanƈtam Eccleſiam per eoſdem manifeſtavit. Hinc quoque de duobus legaliter nuptis in evangelio ait: fam non ſunt duo, ſed una caro; Et, Quod Deus conjunxit, homo non ſeparet. Hinc etiam Paulus apoſtolus viri ac mulieris conjunƈtionem corroborare volens, primùm admonuit viros, dicens: Viri, diligite uxores veſtras, ſicut & Chriſtus dilexit Eccleſiam. Mulieribus quoque præcepit ut viris ſuis ſint ſubjeƈtae in omni caſtitate, bonitate, & honore. Cujus exempli & auƈtoritatis inſtitutione edoƈtus, ego RICHARDUS in Dei nomine cupiens per annorum curricula, diſponente pii Conditoris clementiâ, habere liberos Deum timentes, adamavi te, ô dulciſſima ſponſa, atque amantiſſima conjux JUDITHA, & à parentibus & propinquis tuis expetivi te, & ſponſalibus ornamentis deſponſavi te. Prætereà, legitimâ conjuƈtione expletâ, in dote tua dono tibi, donatumque in perpetuùm eſſe volo, in pago videlicet Siſoienſe Brenaïco cum appendentibus ſuis, ſcilicet Campols, Katorcias, Fraxinus, Grandem-campum, Til, Cambrenſe, Fererias, Villa Remigii, Folmatium, Sanƈtus Albinus, Laubias, Maitgrant, Kahin, Novum Maſnile, Pons, Manneval, Tortuc, Sanƈtus Leodegarius. Item Til, Valenias, Corbeſpina, Fait, Laubias, Villa Audefridi, Karentonus, Campflorem, Fontanas, Belmont, Belmontel, Litulas, *Cebeſias in ſupradiƈtis villis XX. & unam, molendinos XXVIIII. tredecim carrucas boum, cum ſervis, & omni ſupelleƈtili earum, cum pratis, ſylvis, terris cultis & incultis, exitibus & reditibus, aquis, aquarumve decurſibus, piſcatoriis, & quidquid inibi pertinere videtur. In vicariam quoque Cingatenſem concedo tibi has villas: Cingal, Urtulum, Fraſnetum, Bretevilla, Ofgot, Maſnil Coibei, Maſnil Robert, Avavilla, Merlai, Petrafica, Maſnil Anſgot, Til, Peladavilla, Longum Maſnile, Novavilla, Corteleias, Corteletes, Sanƈtus Audomarus, Villa Petitel, Boſblancart, Novum-manſum, Aſcon, Bruol, Torei, Donai, Donaiolum, Villare, Matreles, Combrai, Longavilla, Placei, & in ſupradiƈtis villis eccleſias XV. farinarios XV. cum terris cultis & incultis, aquis, aquarumve decurſibus, exitibus & reditibus, viis & inviis, ſylvis, pratis, paſcuis, & quidquid ad ſupradiƈtas villas pertinere videtur, abſque ullius contradiƈtione. In vicaria inſuper quæ vocatur Kelgenas concedo tibi has villas quæ ita nominantur: videlicet Trelvilla, Rolvilla, Flamenovilla: item Flamenovilla, Fegelvilla: item Rolvilla, Kalvilla, Benediƈti villa, Nova-villa, Cantapia, Geroldi villa: item Geroldi-villa, Solomonis-Villa, Longavilla, Brotavilla, Fagum: item Nova-villa, Bixrobot, Sottevilla, Sanƈtus Chriſtophorus, Seroldivilla, Stobelont, Bojo-rodevilla, Rodulfi-villa, Maſnile, Manuine, Englebertvilla, Sotenvaſt, Sanƈtus Martinus cum quatuor villis, Colecleſia, Starletof: item Engilberti-villa, Virandevilla, Caſuetum, Herardi-villa, Bruet, Huntolf, Tobec, Waſt, Fraxenus, Beroldwaſt, Reginavilla, Bruet, Huntolf, Tober, Waſt, Fraxinus, Beroldwaſt, Reginavilla, Ketevilla XVII. eccleſias, XV. quoque molendine, cum terris cultis & incultis, aquis, aquarumve decurſibus, pratis, paſcuis, ſylvis, & quidquid inibi pertinere videtur. Concedo inſuper tibi jure proprio & familia naea quingentos utriuſque ſexus. Et ut hæc omnia quæ ſupra diximus in perpetuùm poſſideas, & vera eſſe credantur, & inconvulſa omni tempore permaneant, hunc propriæ dotis libellum diſcribere juſſi, ac manu propriâ ſubterfirmare decrevi.
This roughly translates as:
THE DOWRY OF JUDITH
        Countess of Normandy,
…… They were established by the ancient sanction of the Fathers, and on the page of both the New and Old Testaments it is found written … The Creator of all things has ordained the lawful conjunction of man and woman, as it is written: God created man in his own image and likeness; male and female he created them, when he fashioned Eve from one of the ribs of his husband Adam, and said: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. God himself, the Creator of all things, having ordained what he had said. … grow, and multiply unto the end, as he designated by his only-begotten Son the Lord Jesus Christ, when once in Cana of Galilee, called to the wedding, the same Redeemer came with his mother and disciples, and sanctified the wedding itself with his presence, and lay down with those who were reclining, and there he turned water into wine by divine power, for the love of the new, offspring; For he strengthened the hearts of his disciples therein to faith, and manifested the ring of faith in his holy Church through them. Hence also he says of two legally married people in the gospel: they are no longer two, but one flesh; And, What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Hence also the apostle Paul, wishing to strengthen the union of man and woman, first admonished men, saying: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church. He also commanded wives to be subject to their husbands in all chastity, goodness, and honor. Taught by whose example and authority, I, RICHARD, desiring in the name of God, through the course of years, by the disposition of the mercifulness of the pious Creator, to have children who fear God, have loved you, O most sweet bride, and most loving spouse JUDITH, and have desired you from your parents and relatives, and have espoused you with bridal ornaments. Furthermore, having completed the lawful union, I give you in your dowry, and I want it to be given to you in perpetuity, in the village of Sisoiense Brenaïco with its appurtenances, namely Campols, Katorcias, Fraxinus, Grandem-campum, Til, Cambrense, Fererias, Villa Remigii, Folmatium, Sanctus Albinus, Laubias, Maitgrant, Kahin, Novum Masnile, Pons, Manneval, Tortuc, Sanctus Leodegarius. Likewise Til, Valenias, Corbespina, Fait, Laubias, Villa Audefridi, Karentonus, Campflorem, Fontanas, Belmont, Belmontel, Litulas, *Cebesias in the aforementioned twenty-one villages, twenty-nine mills, thirteen oxcarts, with servants, and all their furnishings, with meadows, forests, cultivated and uncultivated lands, exits and returns, waters, or watercourses, fisheries, and whatever seems to pertain thereto. I also grant you the following villages as the vicarage of Cingatense: Cingal, Urtulum, Frasnetum, Bretevilla, Ofgot, Masnil Coibei, Masnil Robert, Avavilla, Merlai, Petrafica, Masnil Ansgot, Til, Peladavilla, Longum Masnile, Novavilla, Corteleias, Corteletes, Sanctus Audomarus, Villa Petitel, Bosblancart, Novum-mansum, Ascon, Bruol, Torei, Donai, Donaiolum, Villare, Matreles, Combrai, Longavilla, Placei, and in the aforementioned villages fifteen churches, fifteen flour mills, with cultivated and uncultivated lands, waters, or water courses, exits and returns, roads and unroads, forests, meadows, pastures, and whatever seems to pertain to the aforementioned villages, without any contradiction. In the vicarage also which is called Kelgenas I grant you these villas which are thus named: namely Trelvilla, Rolvilla, Flamenovilla: also Flamenovilla, Fegelvilla: also Rolvilla, Kalvilla, Benedicti villa, Nova-villa, Cantapia, Geroldi villa: also Geroldi-villa, Solomonis-Villa, Longavilla, Brotavilla, Fagum: also Nova-villa, Bixrobot, Sottevilla, Sanctus Christopher, Seroldivilla, Stobelont, Bojo-rodevilla, Rodulfi-villa, Masnile, Manuine, Englebertvilla, Sotenvast, Sanctus Martinus with four villas, Coleclesia, Starletof: also Engilberti-villa, Virandevilla, Casuetum, Herardi-villa, Bruet, Huntolf, Tobec, Wast, Fraxenus, Beroldwast, Reginavilla, Bruet, Huntolf, Tober, Wast, Fraxinus, Beroldwast, Reginavilla, Ketevilla 17 churches, 15 mills, with cultivated and uncultivated lands, waters or watercourses, meadows, pastures, forests, and whatever seems to belong there. I grant you in your own right and your family five hundred of both sexes. And so that you may possess all these things which we have said above in perpetuity, and that they may be believed to be true, and remain unshaken at all times, I have ordered this dower bill to be drawn up, and I have decreed to underwrite it with my own hand.

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book V pp88-9 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        XIII [XIII]
  Porro dux (1), de successione prolis sollicitus, Goiffredi, Britannorum comitis, quamdam sororem, nomine Judith, audiens corpore admodum elegantem omnique morum honestate pollentem, hanc per legatos petiit in connubium. Cujus propositum Goiffredus ultroneo animo satagens accelerare, omnibus quae ad tantum negotium erant congrua preparatis, eam illi deduxit usque ad limina archangeli Michaelis. Ubi dux illam suscipiens competenti honore eam sibi junxit legitimo more. De qua, profluentibus annis, tres filios genuit, Ricardum (2) siquidem atque Rodbertum (3), necnon Willelmum (4) apud Fiscannum monachili vellere in adolescentia functum, totidemque filias, quarum una, nomine Adeliz (5), Rainaldo, Burgundionum comiti, nupsit, ex qua Willelmum (6) atque Widonem (7) procreavit, altera Balduino Flandrensi (8), tertia jam adulta obiit virgo. Porro Goiffredus comes longo post, orationis pro obtentu Romam proficiscens, totam Britanniam cum duobus filiis, Alanno (1) videlicet atque Eudone (2), reliquit, sub ducis Ricardi advocatu. Qui, peragratis sanctorum locis, in repatriando preventus morte diem obiit.
  (1) Les événements que raconte ce chapitre sont en réalité fort antérieurs à ceux dont parle le chapitre précédent. En effet, Geoffroi, comte de Rennes, est mort en 1008, et le mariage de Richard II avec Judith est antérieur à cette date. Ce n’est pas la seule erreur de chronologie que commette notre auteur.
  (2) Le futur Richard III.
  (3) Le futur Robert le Magnifique.
  (4) Guillaume, moine à Fécamp, mort en 1025.
  (5) Aeliz épousa Renaud, fils d’Otte-Guillaume et comte de Bourgogne.
  (6) Guillaume, sans doute père de Guillaume Tête-Hardie.
  (7) Gui de Bourgogne, qui fut prétendant au duché de Normandie contre Guillaume le Bâtard.
  (8) Cette fille épousa Baudoin IV, comte de Flandre.
  (1) Alain III, comte de Rennes (1008-1040).
  (2) Eudon de Penthièvre (1035-1079).
This roughly translates as:
        XIII [XIII]
Furthermore, the duke (1), anxious about the succession of his children, heard that Geoffrey, count of Brittany, had a certain sister named Judith, who was very elegant in body and powerful in all the honesty of her manners, and asked her for marriage through ambassadors. Geoffrey, eager to hasten his purpose, prepared everything that was suitable for such a task, and led her to the threshold of the Archangel Michael. Where the duke, receiving her with appropriate honor, married her to him in the lawful manner. By her, as the years passed, he had three sons, Richard (2) and Rodbert (3), as well as William (4), who served as a monk at Fiscanne in his youth, and as many daughters, one of whom, named Adeliz (5), married Rainald, count of Burgundy, from whom she had William (6) and Widon (7), the other Baldwin of Flanders (8), the third, now grown up, died a virgin. Moreover, count Geoffrey, after a long time, setting out for Rome for the sake of prayer, left all Brittany with his two sons, namely Alan (1) and Eudon (2), under the advocate of duke Richard. He, having travelled through the holy places, died on the day he was prevented from returning home.
  (1) The events recounted in this chapter actually predate those discussed in the previous chapter. Indeed, Geoffrey, Count of Rennes, died in 1008, and Richard II's marriage to Judith predates this date. This is not the only chronological error our author makes.
  (2) The future Richard III.
  (3) The future Robert the Magnificent.
  (4) William, a monk at Fécamp, died in 1025.
  (5) Aeliz married Renaud, son of Otto-William and Count of Burgundy.
  (6) William, probably the father of William Hardhead.
  (7) Guy of Burgundy, who was a pretender to the Duchy of Normandy against William the Bastard.
  (8) This daughter married Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders.
  (1) Alan III, Count of Rennes (1008-1040).
  (2) Eudon of Penthièvre (1035-1079).

(The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p80 (James Robinson Planché, 1874) "Judith was the only child of Conan le Tort, Count of Rennes, by his second wife Ermengarde, daughter of Geoffrey Grisegonelle, married according to the " Chroniques de Mont St. Michel " in 970. Conan was slain at the battle of Conquereux in 992. ... Judith died in 1017, the mother of five children: Richard, Robert, Guillaume, Alix (also called Judith), and Eleanore ")

Children:
Married (2nd): Papia

Children:
Occupation: Duke of Normandy

Richard succeeded to the duchy of Normandy on his father's death in 996, and was duke for thirty years until his own death in 1026. He rebuilt the abbey of Fontenelles and Judith his wife, founded a monastery at Bernai in honour of St. Mary.

Notes:
Roberti de Monte Auctarium A. 960-1052 in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica vol 6 p478 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1844)
1026. Mortuo Ricardo secundo duce Normannorum, filio primi Ricardi, successit ei filius eius Ricardus tercius. Hic genuit Nicolaum, postea abbatem Sancti Audoeni, et duas filias, Papiam videlicet uxorem Walterii de Sancto Walerico, et Aeliz, uxorem Ranulfi vicecomitis de Baiocis. Hic tertius Ricardus eodem primo anno ducatus sui mortuus est, et suecessit ei Robertas frater ejus
This roughly translates as:
1026. When Richard the Second, Duke of the Normans, son of Richard the First, died, his son Richard the Third succeeded him. He fathered Nicholas, afterwards Abbot of St. Audoen, and two daughters, namely Papia, wife of Walter of St. Waleric, and Aeliz, wife of Ranulf, Viscount of Bayeux. This third Richard died in the same first year of his dukedom, and was succeeded by his brother Robert.

The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis book 3 chapter 1 pp381-2 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  In the year of our Lord 996, on the death of Richard the elder, he was succeeded by Richard Gonorrides his son,2 who piously governed the duchy of Normandy thirty years. He rebuilt the abbey of Fontenelles which St. Wandrille had founded and Hasting had ruined; and Judith his wife, sister of Geoffrey earl of Brittany, founded a monastery at Bernai in honour of St. Mary, mother of God.
  On the death of Richard Gonnorides, his young son Richard succeeded, but he held the dukedom not quite a year and a half.3 Then it fell to his brother Robert, who held it with great honour seven years and a half
  2 Gonnor was second wife of Richard I. For the singular occurrences which introduced this lady into the ducal family, see the continuator of William de Jumièges, book viii. c. 36.
  3 All this part of the chronology of Normandy is surrounded with difficulties. The following are the probable results of a careful examination by the French editors: Richard II. (Gonnorides) died A.D. 1027; Richard III. is supposed to have taken the administration of affairs in 1026, during the life of his father, who passed the last months of his life in the abbey of Fécamp, and to have died in 1028. The same uncertainty attends the date of Richard III.’s death; it appears that he died before the 12th of November, 1028, and the probability is that both he and his father died in the month of August of that year. From July, 1035, to September 9, 1087, the time of William the Conqueror’s death, the fifty-third year was not completed, but only commenced.

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the kings of England pp188-9 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1847)
This Richard was son of Richard the first, and equalled his father in good fortune and good qualities; though he certainly surpassed him in heavenly concerns. He completed the monastery at Feschamp, which his father had begun. He was more intent on prayer and temperance, than you would require in any monk, or hermit. He was humble to excess, in order that he might subdue by his patience, the petulance of those who attacked him. Moreover it is reported, that at night, secretly escaping the observation of his servants, he was accustomed to go unattended to the matins* of the monks, and to continue in prayer till day-light. Intent on this practice, one night in particular, at Feschamp, he was earlier than customary, and finding the door shut, he forced it open with unusual violence, and disturbed the sleep of the sacristan. He, astonished at the noise of a person knocking in the dead of night, got up, that he might see the author of so bold a deed; and finding only a countryman in appearance, clothed in rustic garb, he could not refrain from laying hands on him; and, moved with vehement indignation, he caught hold of his hair, and gave this illustrious man a number of severe blows, which he bore with incredible patience, and without uttering a syllable. The next day, Richard laid his complaint before the chapter,† and with counterfeited anger, summoned the monk to meet him at the town of Argens, threatening that, “he would take such vengeance for the injury, so that all France should talk of it.” On the day appointed, while the monk stood by, almost dead with fear, he detailed the matter to the nobility, largely exaggerating the enormity of the transaction, and keeping the culprit in suspense, by crafty objections to what he urged in mitigation. Finally, after he had been mercifully judged by the nobility, he pardoned him; and to make his forgiveness more acceptable, he annexed all that town, with its appurtenances, reported to be abundant in the best wine, to the office of this sacristan: saying, “That he was an admirable monk, who properly observed his appointed charge, and did not break silence, though roused with anger.”
  * Matins were sometimes performed shortly after midnight.
  † It was customary to hold a chapter immediately after primes.

The History Of The Norman Conquest Of England vol 1 pp255-8 (Edward A. Freeman, 1877)
    § 6. Early years of Richard the Good. 996-997.
  Richard the Fearless was succeeded by his son Richard, surnamed the Good, whose reign carries us beyond the limits of the present sketch into the essential and central portion of our history. Richard was a direct actor in the events which were the immediate causes of the Conquest. He was the uncle of Eadward the Confessor, the grandfather of William the Bastard; and he personally played a certain part in English affairs. I will therefore reserve his actions for their proper place in my general narrative, and I will here speak of one event only, which marks the complete developement of the influences which had been at work throughout the reign of his father. Richard succeeded to the government of a state in which the Danish tongue, Danish manners, perhaps even the old Danish religion, still lingered in particular spots, but which was now, in the face of other nations, a French state, a member, and the principal member, of the Capetian commonwealth. He had imbibed to the full all the new-born aristocratic feelings of feudal and chivalrous France. He would have none but gentlemen about him.1 This is perhaps the earliest use of a word so familiar both in French and in English, but which bears such different meanings in the two languages. But, whoever was a gentleman in the language of Richard’s court, it is plain that the word took in all who could pretend to any kind of kindred or affinity, legitimate or illegitimate, with the sovereign. The way in which the exclusively aristocratic household of Richard is spoken of seems to show that his conduct in this respect was felt to be something different from that of his father. Taken in connexion with what follows, it may well have been the last pound which broke the camel’s back. Popular discontent broke out in the great peasant revolt to which I had occasion to allude earlier in this chapter. … What is most remarkable in the story of this revolt is the regular political organization of the revolters. … We can hardly believe what we read when we find that these rebellious villains established a regular representative parliament. The peasants of each district deputed two of their number to a general assembly, the decisions of which were to be binding on the whole body. … But the revolt was crushed with horrible cruelty hy Rudolf, Count of Ivry, the Duke’s uncle, himself a churl by birth, the son of the miller who married the cast-off wife or mistress of Duke William2.
  1 Roman de Rou, 5955-5974.
  2 Albereda, the wife of Rudolf, built the famous tower of Ivry. See Will. Gem. viii. 15.
pp361-2
all England was now in the hands of Swegen, while the cause of Æthelred was still maintained by Thurkill and the Danish fleet in the Thames. The monarchy of Cerdic was now confined to the decks of forty-five Scandinavian war-ships. The fleet still lay at Greenwich, the scene the martyrdom of Æfheah. Thither, immediately after the submission of London, Æthelred and Thurkill betook themselves. The Lady Emma went, over to her brother in Normandy, in company with Ælfsige, Abbot of Peterborough, and she was presently followed by her two young sons, the Æthelings Eadward and Ælfred, with their tutor Ælfhun, Bishop of London. Æthelred himself stayed some time longer with the fleet, but at midwinter he went to the Isle of Wight, the old Danish quarters, which the adhesion of the Danish fleet now made the only part of his lost realm accessible to the English King. He there kept the feast of Christmas, and in January he joined his wife and his young children in Normandy, where his brother-in-law Duke Richard could hardly refuse him an honourable welcome.
pp457-68
The new Duke was, in the full sense of the word, a Frenchman. Whatever had become of the original homage of Rolf, the commendation of Richard the Fearless to Hugh the Great was still in full force. Richard was the loyal vassal and faithful ally of the Parisian King; his friendship with Robert, the second King of that house, seems to have always remained unbroken, and the two princes acted together in various expeditions. … the cherished ally of the Parisian King is now spoken of with every respect as the duke of Rouen.2 The chief French historian of the time is as ready to exaggerate the external power and influence of the second Richard as ever his own Dudo was to exaggerate those of his father. Richard, on the other hand, did not hesitate to have his gifts to his own Fécamp confirmed by his over-lord,5 and he dated his public acts by the regnal years of the King.6 And no wonder; for it is plain that the Norman Duke was the mainstay of the French kingdom. Robert, though the most pious of men, could not avoid either temporal warfare, ecclesiastical censures, or domestic oppression. In the last two classes of afflictions Norman help could hardly avail him, but in all Robert’s wars Richard proved a steady and valuable ally. The help of the Norman duke enabled his over-lord to maintain his claims over the ducal Burgundy,2 and Norman troops served along with those both of the French King and of the German Cæsar in a war against their common vassal of Flanders. The Imperial and royal saints united their forces against the city of Valenciennes, and the more purely temporal help of the Norman Duke was arrayed on the same side. With his Breton neighbours or vassals Richard was on good terms. The friendship between him and the Breton Count Geoffrey was cemented by an exchange of sisters between the two princes. Richard married Judith of Britanny,4 and Hadwisa of Normandy became the wife of Geoffrey, on whose death her sons, Alan and Odo, were placed under the guardianship of their uncle and lord.1 With another neighbour and brother-in-law Richard found it less easy to remain on friendly terms. His sister Matilda had married Odo the Second, Count of Chartres, the grandson of the old enemy Theobald. The town and part of the district of Dreux had been given to Odo as her marriage portion,2 and this, on her death, he refused to give back. A war followed, which was made conspicuous by the foundation chartres. of the famous castle of Tillières,3 which long remained a border fortress of Normandy. Of course every effort of Odo to take or surprise the Norman outpost was rendered hopeless by Norman valour, … The King then held, what is so rare in the history of France, so common in that of England and Germany, an assembly of the Princes of his realm. The royal summons was obeyed both by the Duke of the Normans and by the Count of Chartres. Peace was made by the mediation of the King; Count Odo kept his town of Dreux, and Duke Richard kept his new fortress of Tillières.
… As yet no distant conquest had been undertaken by any Norman Duke. Yet even under Richard the Good we find the power of Normandy employed beyond the bounds of the French kingdom, and in a cause which was not that of any immediate interest of the Norman duchy. Besides the campaign in which Duke Richard vindicated the claim of his over-lord over the ducal Burgundy, he carried his arms beyond the frontier of the Western Kingdom into that further Burgundy which still kept its own line of Kings, and which was soon to return to its allegiance to Caesar. Reginald, Count of the Burgundian Palatinate, had married Richard’s daughter Adeliza. Towards the end of Richard’s reign, this prince fell into the hands of his turbulent neighbour, Hugh, Count of Challon and Bishop of Auxerre. Hugh was a vassal of France, while Reginald’s dominions were held in fief of the last Burgundian King, the feeble Rudolf, himself little better than a vassal of the Emperor. But neither King nor Cæsar stepped forward to chastise the wrong-doer or to set free the captive. It was a Norman army, under the young Richard, son of the Duke, which presently taught the Count-prelate that a son-in-law of the Duke of the Normans could not be wronged with impunity.2
…  The relations of Richard with England, his war with Æthelred,2 his dealings with Swegen,3 his reception of his fugitive brother-in-law and his children,4 have been already spoken of. With Cnut he seems to have maintained perfect peace. His nephews, the sons of Æthclred and Emma, found shelter at his court, but only shelter. Of any attempt on their behalf, of any interference in the internal affairs of England, the wary Duke seems never to have thought. We must hasten on to the reign of another Norman prince, whose relations to our island were widely different.
  Richard died after a reign of thirty years. Before his death he assembled the chief men of his duchy, and by their advice he settled the duchy itself on his eldest son Richard, and the county of Hiesmes on his second son Robert as his brother’s vassal.
  2 In Rudolf Glaber (ii. 2) Richard appears as ‘‘Rotomagorum dux.” Duke or Earl of Rouen (Rudu Jarl) is also the title which the Norman princes bear in the Northern Sagas. See Vita Olai Trygg. p. 263, and Laing, ii. i6. Richard is '“dux”' here; he is “Rotomagorum comes” in cap. 8, and “Princeps” in iii. i. In Ademar (iii. 55) he is “Comes Rotomensis” and “Rotomagi.” Richard calls himself (D’Achery, iii. 386) “Marchio Nortmannise.” See Appendix T.
  5 King Robert in 1006 confirmed the foundation of Fécamp, “pia petitione dilectissimi fidelis nostri Ricardi comitis.” Gallia Christiana, xi. Inst. 8. One can hardly fancy this formula being used fifty years earlier or fifty years later.
  6 This is a very common act of formal submission, even when submission was merely formal; but, after being very common under Richard, it dies out under William.
  2 This Burgundian war is described by R. Glaber, ii. 8; Will, Gem. v. 15. The Norman contingent is said to have amounted to 30,000 men.
  4 The marriage contract of Judith is given in Martène and Durand’s Thesaurus Novus, i. 123. She founded the abbey of Bernay in 1013. W. Gem. vii. 22. See Neustria Pia, 398. Her church is standing, though desecrated, a noble example of early Norman Romanesque.
  1 W. Gem. v. 13. Count Geoffrey going on a pilgrimage to Rome, left his dominions and his sons “sub ducis advocatu.” He died on his way home.
  2 On the war with Odo, see W. Gem. v. 10-12; Roman de Rou, 6588-6974. Cf. R. Glaber, iii, 2, 9.
  3 “ Castrum Tegulense,” W. Gem. v. 10. “Tuillieres,” Roman de Rou, 6627.
  2 Will. Gem. v. 16; Roman de Rou, 7292-7370.
  2 See p. 301.
  3 See p. 342.
  4 See p. 361.

Death: 23 August 1026, in Fécamp, Normandy

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book V pp96-7 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
        XVII [XVII]
  Dux idem, quamvis precellentissimorum actuum prerogativis longe lateque claruerit perspicuus, tamen Christi cultor extitit assiduus, adeo ut monachorum atque clericorum jure vocetur pater piissimus et pauperum sustentator indefessus. His et hujuscemodi probitatum vigens titulis, egritudine corporis cepit vehementer aggravari. Convocatoque apud Fiscannum Rodberto archiepiscopo, cum Normannorum principibus cunctis, indicavit se jam omnino resolvi. Illico per cuncta triclinia domus fit omnibus intolerabilis luctus. Lugubre quippe lamentabantur monachi atque clerici pro tanta orbitate carissimi patris; undabantur heroum ora lacrimis pro amissione invictissimi ducis; lugebant quoque catervae egenorum per compita oppidi pro destitutione sui consolatoris atque patroni. Novissime autem ascitum Ricardum suum filium, consultu sapientum, suo ducatui prefecit, fratremque ejus Rodbertum comitatui Oximensi, ut inde illi debitum persolveret obsequii. Omnibusque quae ad Dei cultum pertinere videbantur strenue dispositis, millesimo vicesimo sexto anno ab incarnatione Domini hominem exivit (1), viam ingrediens universae carnis, regnante eodem Jesu Christo in deitate Paternae majestatis, et in unitate Spiritu Sancti per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
  (1) Le 23 août 1026. Cf. Pfister, op. cit., p. 216, n. 6.
This roughly translates as:
        XVII [XVII]
  The same duke, although he was widely known for his excellent deeds, nevertheless remained a constant worshipper of Christ, so much so that he was rightly called the most pious father of monks and clerics and the tireless supporter of the poor. While he was living under these and similar titles of honor, he began to be greatly burdened by illness. And having summoned Archbishop Rodbert to Fiscan, along with all the Norman princes, he indicated that he was now completely resolved. Immediately, unbearable mourning broke out throughout all the dining rooms of the house. For the monks and clerics mourned mournfully for the great loss of their dear father; the faces of the heroes were wet with tears for the loss of the most invincible duke; crowds of the needy also mourned through the gates of the town for the loss of their comforter and patron. Finally, however, he appointed his son Richard, who had been ordained, to his duchy, and his brother Rodbert to the county of Oxum, so that he might thereby repay the debt of homage owed to him. And having diligently arranged all that seemed to pertain to the worship of God, in the one thousand and twenty-sixth year from the incarnation of the Lord he departed in man (1), entering the way of all flesh, reigning the same Jesus Christ in the divinity of the Father's majesty, and in the unity of the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
(1) August 23, 1026. Cf. Pfister, op. cit., p. 216, n. 6.

Tomb in Fecamp monastery
The supposed tomb of both Richard I and Richard II, inscribed with their names, at Fécamp Abbey. However, in 2016, the tomb was opened by Norwegian researchers who discovered that the interred remains could not have been those of Richard, as testing revealed that they were much older. Although it is not in doubt that Richard was buried in the Abbey in 996, it is known that his remains were moved within the Abbey several times after his burial.
photo by Giogo (2012) posted on wikipedia
Buried: at the monastery at Fécamp, Normandy, initially at the door of the church where he would be "subjected to the feet of such as passed by, and to the spouts of water which streamed from above", but later moved to the high altar.

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the kings of England p189 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1847)
He completed the monastery at Feschamp, … In the twenty-eighth year of his dukedom, he died, having ordered his body to be buried at the door of the church, where it would be subjected to the feet of such as passed by, and to the spouts of water which streamed from above. In our time, however, William, third abbat of that place, regarding this as disgraceful, removed the long-continued reproach, and taking up the body, placed it before the high altar. 

Sources:

Robert I "le Magnifique"

Robert I "le Magnifique"
Robert I "le Magnifique", as depicted in the Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings (1275-1300) - BL Royal MS 14 B V
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Statue of Robert I "le Magnifique"
Statue of Robert I "le Magnifique" as part of the Six Dukes of Normandy set of statues in the Falaise town square, Normandy, France
photo by FinnWikiNo taken in June 2006, posted at wikipedia
Father: Richard II, Duke of Normandy

Mother: Judith de Rennes

Married: Estrith
Robert is said to have ill-treated Estrith, and he repudiated her, sending her back to her brother, king Cnut, the Danish king of England. Estrith was also married to the Danish earl Ulf, to whom she bore Sweyn II, afterwards king of the Danes, although it is unclear in which order her marriages occured.

Children: (not by Estrith)
William's mother was Herleva, but Adelaide's mother is generally accepted to have been, as Robert de Torigny wrote "de alia concubina" (by another concubine) (Roberti de Monte Auctarium A. 960-1052 in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica vol 6 p478)

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 pp4-5 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
it was during the lifetime of his father, and while Robert was only Count of the Hiemois, and it may be in his nonage, that he first saw Herleve, Harlctt, or Arlot (for it is written in all manner of ways), daughter of a burgess of Falaise, an accident the results of which were the subjugation of England and the succession of a line of kings unsurpassed for valour and power by the greatest sovereigns in Europe.
p10
Herleve is said to have been extremely beautiful, and was not yielded to the young Count by her father without considerable reluctance. The proposal, made to him by “a discreet ambassador,” was received with the greatest indignation; but on consulting, we are told, his brother, who was a holy hermit in the neighbouring forest of Govert or Gouffern, a man of great sanctity, and who expressed his opinion that nothing could be refused to their liege lord (an acknowledgment of the “droit de seigneur” savouring more of policy than piety), his scruples were overcome, and Herleve was surrendered to the Count, by whom, we are told, she was treated with all affection and respect as his wife, according to the old Danish custom which still lingered in Normandy, whereby such connections were not regarded in the disreputable light they are at the present day. According to Benoit, the girl was exceedingly proud of her position, insisted on riding to the castle on a palfrey, and refused to enter it by a wicket. “Since the Duke has sent for me, why are his doors closed against me ? Throw open the gates, beaux amis!” And her commands were immediately obeyed.
   Upon Robert’s succession to the dukedom on the death of his elder brother Richard, in 1027, the father of Herleve was appointed his chamberlain, having therefore the care of the robes which he had probably made. Her brother Walter was also attached in some capacity to his person. Their residence in the market-place, we may presume, was now exchanged for an official one, either at Falaise or Rouen, and Herleve and her children were no doubt installed in the ducal apartments.
…  “The Duke,” adds the same chronicler, “loved the child as much as if he had been born in wedlock, and caused him to be as richly and as nobly cared for.”*
  * Benoit de Sainte-More; Roger de Hoveden.
p14
  We hear nothing of Herleve after the birth of William until she appears as the lawful wife of a Norman knight named Herluin de Conteville, of whom little is known beyond the fact that he was a widower, father of a son named Ralph, on whom William is said to have bestowed large domains, besides heaping honours and possessions on Herluin, both in Normandy and England

Occupation: Duke of Normandy

Notes:
The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis book 3 chapter 1 pp381-2 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  On the death of Richard Gonnorides, his young son Richard succeeded, but he held the dukedom not quite a year and a half.3 Then it fell to his brother Robert, who held it with great honour seven years and a half, and following the example of his ancestors, laid the foundations of the abbey of Cerisi. Moved however with the fear of Grod, he relinquished his worldly honours and undertook a voluntary pilgrimage to the tomb of our Lord at Jerusalem, and died as he was returning home at Nice, in Bithynia, in the year of Christ 1035.
  3 All this part of the chronology of Normandy is surrounded with difficulties. The following are the probable results of a careful examination by the French editors: Richard II. (Gonnorides) died A.D. 1027; Richard III. is supposed to have taken the administration of affairs in 1026, during the life of his father, who passed the last months of his life in the abbey of Fécamp, and to have died in 1028. The same uncertainty attends the date of Richard III.’s death; it appears that he died before the 12th of November, 1028, and the probability is that both he and his father died in the month of August of that year. From July, 1035, to September 9, 1087, the time of William the Conqueror’s death, the fifty-third year was not completed, but only commenced.

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the kings of England p189 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1847)
After Richard, his son of the same name obtained the principality, but lived scarcely a year. A vague opinion indeed has prevailed, that, by the connivance of his brother Robert, whom Richard the second begat on Judith, daughter of Conan, earl of Brittany, a certain woman, skilled in poisons, took the young man off. In atonement for his privity to this transaction he departed for Jerusalem, after the seventh year of his earldom; venturing on an undertaking very meritorious at that time, by commencing, with few followers, a journey, exposed to incursions of barbarians, and strange, by reason of the customs of the Saracens. He persevered nevertheless, and did not stop, but safely completed the whole distance, and purchasing admission at a high price, with bare feet, and full of tears, he worshipped at that glory of the Christians, the sepulchre of our Lord. Conciliating the favour of God, as we believe, by this labour, on his return homewards he ended his days at Nice, a city of Bithynia; cut off, as it is said, by poison. This was administered by his servant Ralph, surnamed Mowin, who had wrought himself up to the commission of this crime, from a hope of obtaining the dukedom. But on his return to Normandy, the matter becoming known to all, he was detested as a monster, and retired to perpetual exile.

The History Of The Norman Conquest Of England vol 1 pp467-75 (Edward A. Freeman, 1877)
  Richard died after a reign of thirty years. Before his death he assembled the chief men of his duchy, and by their advice he settled the duchy itself on his eldest son Richard, and the county of Hiesmes on his second son Robert as his brother’s vassal.1 Disputes arose between the brothers; Robert was besieged in his castle of Falaise, and when peace was made by the submission of Robert, the Duke did not long survive his success. After a reign of two years he died by poison2 as was generally believed, and was succeeded by his brother.3 Robert, known as the Magnificent,4 is most familiar to us in English history as the father of the Conqueror. But he has no small claims on our notice on his own account. What the son carried out, the father had already attempted. Robert was in will, though not in deed, the first Norman conqueror of England.1 In the early part of his reign he had to struggle against several revolts in his own dominions. We are not directly told what were the grounds of opposition to his government; but we are at least not surprised to hear of revolts against a prince who had attained to his sovereignty under circumstances so suspicious. But Robert overthrew all his domestic enemies,2 and he is at least not charged with any special cruelty in the reestablishment of his authority. With Britanny he did not remain on the same friendly terms as his father. His cousin Alan refused his homage, but he was brought to submission.3 In this warfare Neal of Saint-Saviour, who had so valiantly beaten off the English in their invasion of the Còtentin, appears side by side with a warrior whose name of Ælfred raises the strongest presumption of his English birth. The banishments of the earlier days of Cnut will easily account for so rare an event as that of an Englishman taking service under a foreign prince.4 But it was as the protector of unfortunate princes that Robert seems to have been most anxious to appear before the world. Baldwin of Flanders, driven from his dominions by his rebellious son, was restored by the power of the Norman Duke.5 A still more exalted suppliant presently implored his help. His liege lord, Henry, King of the French, was driven to claim the support of the mightiest of his vassals against foes who were of his own household. King Robert had at first designed the royal succession for his eldest son Hugh, whom, according to a custom common in France, though unusual in England, he caused to be crowned in his lifetime. Hugh, a prince whose merits, we are told, were such that a party in Italy looked to him as a candidate for the Imperial crown, was, after some disputes with his father, reconciled to him, and died before him. Robert then chose as his successor his second son Henry, who was already invested with the duchy of Burgundy. Henry was accordingly accepted and crowned at Rheims. But the arrangement displeased Queen Constance, who was bent on the promotion of her third son Richard. On King Robert’s death, Constance and Richard expelled Henry, who took refuge with his Norman vassal, and was restored by his help, Richard being allowed to receive his brother’s duchy of Burgundy. The policy of Hugh the Great had indeed won for his house a mighty protector in the descendant of the pirates.
  But there were other banished princes who had a nearer claim upon Duke Robert than his Flemish neighbour, a nearer personal claim than even his lord at Paris. The English Æthelings, his cousins Eadward and Ælfred, were still at his court, banished from the land of their fathers, while the Danish invader filled the throne of their fathers. Their mother had wholly forgotten them; their uncle had made no effort on their behalf; Robert, their cousin, was the first kinsman who deemed it any part of his business to assert their right to a crown which seemed to have hopelessly passed away from their house. That Robert did make an attempt to restore them, that the relations between him and Cnut were unfriendly on other grounds, there seems to reason to doubt. But when we ask for dates and details, we are at once plunged into every kind of confusion and contradiction. The English writers are silent; from the German writers we learn next to nothing; the Scandinavian history of this age is still at least half mythical; the Norman writers never held truth to be of any moment when the relations of Normandy and England were concerned. That Robert provoked Cnut by threats or attempts to restore the Æthelings, and also by ill-treating and repudiating Cnut’s sister, seem to be facts which we may accept in the bare outline, whatever we say as to their minuter details. That Cnut retaliated by an invasion of Normandy, or that the threat of such an invasion had an effect on the conduct of the sovereigns of Normandy, are positions which are strongly asserted by various authorities. But their stories are accompanied by circumstances which directly contradict the witness of authorities which are far more trustworthy. In fact, the moment we get beyond the range of the sober contemporary Chronicles of our own land, we find ourselves in a region in which the mythical and romantic elements outweigh the historical and moreover, in whatever comes from Norman sources, we have to be on our guard against interested invention as well as against honest error.
  We have seen that Estrith, a sister of Cnut, was married with to the Danish Earl Ulf, the brother-in-law of Godwine, to whom she bore the famous Swegen Estrithson, afterwards King of the Danes, one of the most renowned princes in Danish history. We are told by a crowd of authorities that, besides her marriage with Ulf, Estrith was married to the Duke of the Normans, that she was ill-treated by him in various ways, and was finally sent back with ignominy to her brother. Most of the writers who tell this story place this marriage before her marriage with Ulf, and make the Danish Earl take the divorced Supposed wife of the Norman Duke. With this story several writers connect another story of an invasion, or threatened invasion, of Normandy undertaken by Cnut in order to redress his sister’s wrongs. The most popular Danish writer even makes Cnut die, in contradiction to all authentic history, while besieging Rouen. We read also how the Norman Duke fled to Jerusalem or elsewhere for fear of the anger of the lord of six Northern kingdoms. Details of this kind are plainly mythical; but they point to some real quarrel, to some war, threatened if not actually waged, between Cnut and Robert. And chronology, as 'well as the tone of the legends, shows that the whole of these events must be placed quite late in Cnut’s reign. Robert The natural inference is that the marriage between Robert and Estrith took place, not before Estrith’s marriage with Ulf, but after Ulf’s death. The widow was richly endowed; her brother had atoned for the slaughter of her husband by territorial grants which might well have moved the greed of the Norman. A superior attraction nearer his own castle may easily account for Robert’s neglect of his Scandinavian bride, a bride no doubt many years older than the young Count of Hièsmes. Within three years after Estrith’s widowhood, Robert became the father of him who was preeminently the Bastard.
  It seems impossible to doubt that Robert’s intervention on behalf of his English cousins was connected with these events. The reign of Robert coincides with the last seven years of the reign of Cnut, so that any intervention of Robert in English affairs must have been in Cnut’s later days. Each prince would doubtless seize every opportunity of annoying the other; the tale clearly sets Robert before us as the aggressor; but as to the order of events we are left to guess. It would be perfectly natural, in a man of Robert’s character, if the repudiation of Estrith was accompanied, or presently followed, by the assertion of the claims of the Æthelings to her brother’s crown. The date then of the first contemplated Norman invasion of England can be fixed only within a few years; but the story, as we read it in the Norman accounts, seems credible enough in its general outline. The Duke sends an embassy to Cnut, demanding, it would seem, the cession of the whole kingdom of England to the rightful heir. That Cnut refused to surrender his crown is nothing wonderful, though the Norman writer seems shocked that the exhortation of the Norman ambassadors did not at once bring conviction to the mind of the usurper.3 The Duke then, in great wrath, determines to assert the claims of his kinsmen by force of arms. An assembly of the Normans is held, a forerunner of the more famous assembly at Lillebonne, in which the invasion of England is determined on. A fleet is made ready with all haste, and Duke Hobert and the Ætheling Eadward embark at Fécamp. But the wind was contrary; instead of being carried safely to Pevensey, the fleet was carried round the Côtentin and found itself on the coast of Jersey.1 All attempts were vain; the historian piously adds that they were frustrated by a special Providence, because God had determined that his servant Eadward should make his way to the English crown without the shedding of blood.2 The Duke accordingly gave up his enterprise on behalf of his cousin of England, and employed his fleet in a further harrying of the dominions of his cousin of Britanny.3 At last Robert, Archbishop of Rouen, the common uncle of Robert and Alan,4 reconciled the two princes, and the fleet seems now to have sailed to Rouen.5 Thus far we have a story, somewhat heightened in its details, but which may be taken as evidence that Robert, who had restored the fugitive sovereigns of France and Flanders, really thought of carrying on his calling of King-maker beyond the sea. … The storm, or whatever it was, which kept back Duke Robert from his invasion of England, put off the chances of a Norman Conquest for nearly forty years.
  1 W. Gem. v. 17. “Cunctos Nonnannorum principea apud Fiscannum convocat.” “Richardum filium suum consultu sapientum [mid his Witena geþeaht] præfecit suo ducatui, et Robertum fratrem ejus comitatui Oximensi, ut inde illi persolveret debitum obsequii.” See above, p. 173. …
  2 Will. Gem. vi. 2. “Cum suorum nonnullis, ut plurimi rettulerunt, veneno mortem obiit.” So Roman de Rou, 7434 et seqq. William of Malmesbury (ii. 178) more distinctly mentions the suspicion against Robert; “Opinio certe incerta vagatur, quod conniventia fratris Roberti … vim juveni venefica consciverit.” So Chron. Turon. (Duchesne, iii. 360); “ Hie dicitur veneno necasse Richardum fratrem suum.”
  3 Richard left a young son, Nicolas, seemingly illegitimate (see Palgrave, iii. 137-142), who became a monk, and died Abbot of Saint Ouen’s in 1092. Will. Gem. vi. a; Ord. Vit. 710 A, who records how he began, but did not finish, the abbey church. Of his work only a small part at the east end remains.
  4 There is no authority whatever for his common name of Robert the Devil which seems to have arisen from confounding him with the hero of some popular romance. The Norman historians give him a singularly good character, and certainly, unless he had a hand in his brother’s death, no great crime is recorded of him. We hear absolutely nothing of any such cruelties on his part as are recorded of many princes of that age. (See Will. Gem. vi, 3; Roman de Rou, 7453.) Altogether his actions might make us think that he was of the same generous and impulsive disposition as his forefather William Longsword (see above, p. 193). His conduct in the external relations of his duchy was far more honourable than that of William; but then he had no Hugh of Paris or Herbert of Vermandois to lead him astray. For another character of Robert, see below, p. 478
  1 Bishop Guy of Amiens goes a step further, and makes Robert actually conquer England; Carmen de Bello, 331;
  '‘Normannos proavus [Willelmi sc.] superavit, avusque Britannos; Anglorum genitor sub juga colla dedit.”
  2 Archbishop Robert his uncle, William of Belesme (of whose family more anon), and Hugh Bishop of Bayeux, who was son of Rudolf of Ivry (see above, p. 258), and therefore first cousin to Robert’s father. See Will. Gem. vi. 3-5; Roman de Rou, 7591 et seqq.
  3 Will. Gem. vi. 8; Roman de Rou, 7755-7896
  4 See Appendix OOO.
  5 Will. Gem. vi. 6. The younger Baldwin had married Adela, daughter of King Robert and the nominal widow of Duke Richard the Third.
  3 Will. Gem. vi. 10. “Ille salubribus monitis ejus non adquievit, sed legatos infectis rebus nihil lætum portantes remisit.”
  1 “Nimia tempestate acti ad insulam quæ Gersus vocatur,” says William of Jumièges. “Gersus” is a singular form for an island which is also called Cæsarea, but whose last syllable, like that of its neighbours, has a very Teutonic sound. Sir F. Palgrave (iii. 176) remarks that this is the first time that Jersey is spoken of in mediaeval history. Waco (7937) seems to have thought that a special description of the position of his native island was needed;
  “Gersui est prez de Costentin, En mer est devers occident, Là ù Normendie prent fin; Al fiè de Normendie appent.”
  2 Will. Gem. vi. 10. “Quod puto ita factum esse, Deo auctore, pro Edwardo rege, quem disponebat in future regnare sine sanguinis effusione.” William of Malmesbury is vaguer and more discreet; “per occultum scilicet Dei judicium, in cujus voluntate sunt potestates regnorum omnium.”
  3 Ib. vi. 11.
  4 Ib.
  5 William of Malmesbury winds up bis story with the singular statement; “Relliquiæ ratium, multo tempore dissolutarum, Rotomagi adhuc nostra ætate visebantur,”

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p4 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
Robert I., Duke of Normandy, styled by some “the Magnificent,” from his liberalities and love of splendour; “the Jerusalemite,” in consequence of his pilgrimage; and by others less courteously “the Devil,” though wherefore or at what period has not been satisfactorily ascertained. … Robert was the second son of Richard II., Duke of Normandy, by his wife Judith, daughter of Conan le Tort (the Crooked), Count of Renncs, and sister of the half blood to Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany;

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition vol 23 pp400-2 (ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911)
  ROBERT I. (d. 1035), called Robert the Devil, was the younger son of Richard II., duke of Normandy (d. 1026), who bequeathed to him the county of Exmes. In 1028 he succeeded his brother, Richard III., whom he was accused of poisoning, as duke of Normandy. His time was mainly spent in fighting against his rebellious vassals. At his court Robert sheltered the exiled English princes, Edward, afterwards King Edward the Confessor, and his brother Alfred, and fitted out a fleet for the purpose of restoring them to their inheritance, but this was scattered by a storm. When returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he died at Nicaea on the 22nd of July 1035. His successor as duke was his natural son, William the Conqueror, afterwards king of England. In addition to winning for him his surname, Robert’s strength and ferocity afforded material for many stories and legends, and he is the subject of several poems and romances (see ROBERT THE DEVIL below).
…
  ROBERT THE DEVIL, hero of romance. He was the son of a duke and duchess of Normandy, and by the time he was twenty was a prodigy of strength, which he used, however, only for outrage and crime. At last he learnt from his mother, in explanation of his wicked impulses, that he was born in answer to prayers addressed to the devil. He was directed by the pope to a hermit, who imposed on him by way of penance that he should maintain absolute silence, feign madness, take his food from the mouth of a dog, and provoke ill-treatment from the common people without retaliating. He became court fool to the emperor at Rome, and delivered the city from Saracen invasions in three successive years in the guise of an unknown knight, having each time been bidden to fight by a celestial messenger. The emperor’s dumb daughter recovered speech to declare the identity of the court fool with the deliverer of the city, but Robert refused the hand of the princess and the imperial inheritance, and ended his days in the hermitage of his old confessor.
  The French romance of Robert le Diable is one of the oldest versions of the legend, and differs in detail from the popular tales printed in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was apparently founded on folk-lore, not on the wickedness of Robert Guiscard or any historical personage; but probably the name of Robert and the localization of the legend may be put down to the terror inspired by the Normans. In the English version the hero is called Sir Gowther, and the scene is laid in Germany. This metrical romance dates from the beginning of the 15th century, and is based, according to its author, on a Breton lay. The legend had undergone much change before it was used by E. Scribe and C. Delavigne in the libretto of Meyerbeer’s opera of Robert le Diable.
  See Robert le Diable, ed. E. Löseth (Paris, 1903, for the Soc. des anc. textes fr.); Sir Gowther, ed. K. Breul (Oppeln, 1886); M. Tardel, Die Sage v. Robert d. Teufel in neueren deutschen Dichtungen (Berlin, 1900). Breul’s edition of the English poem contains an examination of the legend, and a bibliography of the literature dealing with the subject. The English prose romance of Robert the Devyll was printed (c. 1510) by Wynkyn de Worde.

Death: 2 July 1035, in Nicea, in Bithynia, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p12-6 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
After Duke Robert had ruled Normandy some seven or eight years, he called together at Fécamp the chief persons in his dominions, announced to them his intention to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and his desire to settle the succession previously to undertaking a perilous journey from which he might never return. His auditors, amongst whom was his uncle Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and Count of Evreux, who had himself pretensions to that succession, strongly opposed his proposition. To leave Normandy under such circumstances would be ruin to it. The Duke was conjured to remain at home and protect the duchy from the inroads of the Bretons and Burgundians. Robert, however, was not to be dissuaded from his purpose. “Seigneurs,” he said, “you speak truly. I have no direct heir, but I have a little boy, who, if it please you, shall be your Duke, acting under the advice of the King of France, who will be his protector. He is little, but he will grow. I acknowledge him my son. Receive him and you will do well. It may please God that I shall return. If not, he will have been brought up amongst you. He will do honour to his culture, and, if you will promise to love and loyally serve him, I will leave him in my place.”
… Duke Robert lost no time in setting out on his pilgrimage, conducting on the way his son to Paris, where he caused him to do homage to the King for the Duchy of Normandy, and received personal assurance of the royal protection.
… Duke Robert died on his return from Jerusalem at Nikaia in Bithynia, poisoned, as it is reported, by Raoul, surnamed Mouin

The History Of The Norman Conquest Of England vol 1 pp477-8 (Edward A. Freeman, 1877)
A fit of purer religious enthusiasm, a fierce impulse of penitence for past sins, carried Robert of Normandy on the more distant pilgrimage to Jerusalem.3 On his return he died at the Bithynian Nikaia; some say by the same fate by which he was suspected of having made away with his own brother.1 In his lifetime he had begun to rear the noble abbey of Cerisy, where, after many changes and mutilations, some parts still remain to witness to the severe grandeur of the taste of Robert and his age.2 But the bones of its founder were not destined to rest among its massive pillars or beneath the bold arches which span the width of its stately nave. The relics which he had collected in the East were borne by his chamberlain Toustain to the sanctuary which he had founded,3 but the great Duke of the Normans4 himself found his last home in the lands beyond the Hellespont, beneath the spreading cupolas of a Byzantine basilica at Nikaia.5 The Norman thus died a stranger and a pilgrim in a land of another tongue and another worship.
  3 See William of Jumièges, vi. 12, who however does not distinctly connect the pilgrimage with the death of his brother. But William of Malmesbury says distinctly, “cujus rei gemens conscientiam.” So the Tours Chronicle quoted above (p. 468); “Quare … nudipes Hierusalem abiit.”
  1 Will. Malms, ii. 1 78. “Apud Nicseam urbem Bithyniæ dies implevit, veneno, ut fertur, interceptus; auctore ministro Radulfo, cognomento Mowino, qui scelus illud spe ducatus animo suo extorserit; sed Normanniam regressus, re cognita, ab omnibus quasi monstrum exsufflatus, in exsilium perpetuum discessit.” So Roman de Rou, 8372.
  2 Will. Gem. vii. 22. “At Robertus … antequam Hieruaalem pergeret, monasterium Sancti Vigoiis Ceratii ædificare cœpit.” So Roman de Rou, 7465 et seqq., 8390. On Cerisy, see Neustria Pia, 429.
  3 Roman de Rou, 8391.
  4 Will. Gem. vii. 1. “Roberti magni ducis.”
  5 Ib. vi. 13. “Sepultus est etiam in basilica sanctæ Marise a suis, intra mœnia Nicenæ civitatis.” According to the Chronicle of Saint Wandrille (D’Achery, ii. 288) Robert’s burial in this church was a favour the like of which had never before been granted to any man. This writer altogether casts aside the tale of Robert being poisoned. “Divino, ut credi fas est, judicio decessit, qui jam unus eorum effectus erat, quibus, ut apostolus conqueritur, dignus non erat mundus.” Evil counsellors had led him astray in youth; but he repented of his misdeeds—why did he neither marry Herleva nor take back Estrith?—and gradually reached this high degree of perfection.

Buried: in the basilica of St Mary, within the walls of Nicea, but later moved to Apulia, in Italy

Gesta Normannorum ducum (Guillaume de Jumièges) book VI p114 (ed. Jean Marx, 1914)
Porro invictus dux, pius et Deo amabilis, adorato Christo cum internorum singultuum suspiriis, et peragratis sanctorum locis, felicissimum convertens iter, ad Nicenam regressus est urbem. In qua correptus egrimonia corporis, millesimo tricesimo quinto anno ab Incarnatione Domini, viam petens universi generis humani, gaudentibus Angelis, Divinae vocationis jussu in pace vitae cursum explevit. … Sepultus est etiam a suis in basilica sanctae Mariae intra menia ipsius civitatis, regnante Domino nostro Jesu Christo in Paternae Deitate majestatis, cum coequalitate Spiritus sancti, per omnia secula seculorum.
This roughly translates as:
Then the invincible leader, pious and beloved of God, having adored Christ with sighs of inner sobs, and having traversed the holy places, he returned to the city of Nicea, having made the most happy journey. In which, seized with bodily weakness, in the one thousand thirty-fifth year after the Incarnation of the Lord, seeking the way of the entire human race, he completed the course of his life in peace, by the command of the Divine calling, with the rejoicing of the Angels. … He was also buried by his own people in the basilica of Saint Mary within the walls of that city, while our Lord Jesus Christ reigns in the majesty of the Father's Deity, with the coequal power of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever.

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the kings of England p307 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1847)
  Honouring the memory of his father, by every practicable method, in the latter part of his life, he caused his bones, formerly interred at Nicea, to be taken up by means of a person sent for that purpose, in order to convey them elsewhere; who, successfully returning, stopped in Apulia, on hearing of the death of William, and there buried this illustrious man’s remains.

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