Richard I the Fearless of Normandy 3rd Duke of Normandy [2632] ^24,25

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Richard I the Fearless of Normandy, Duke of Normandy 3rd

Acceded: 942
The line to the dukes of Normandy comes through Isabel St. Liz, a nd the line to Charlemagne comes through her husband, William Mauduit. T he lines merge again with the marriage of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, a nd Emma, daughter of Hugh, who was -in all but name- King of France. His s on, Hugh Capet, later assumed the title, and primogeniture began in the Fr ench line of kings.
The two lines met again later with the marriage of Adele, daughter of Ki ng Robert II, and Richard III, Duke of Normandy. Richard I, "the Fearless "; named father's heir 29 May 942. Married first (Danish wife) Gunnora b ut betrothed ca. 945 and eventually married 960 to Emma. Richard was betro thed to Emma for some time but did not marry her until about 960, after t he death of her father, Hugh the Great, in 956. Richard was the guardi an of Hugh's son, the Duke of Paris, and eventually married Emma to streng then his position. He did not treat her unkindly, he merely loved Gunnor a. Poor Emma passed her life at Rouen alone and solitary, and eventually s he pined away and died about the year 962. After Emma's death he married ( Christian marriage) Gunnora to legitimize their children.

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Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (39:22), (119:24), (121E:20), (177:3),
(214:22), (235:19), (250:20). "RICHARD I, "the Fearless", Duke of
Normandy, b. Fecamp ca. 933, named father's h. 29 May 942, d. 20 Nov.
996; m. (1) (Danish wife) GUNNOR, d. 1027 or 1031, dau. of the forester
of Arques, but betrothed ca. 945 & event. m. (2) 960 to Emma, d. ca. 968,
dau. HUGH CAPET ..., Count of Paris. After Emma's death, m. (Christian
marriage) GUNNOR to legit. their children. "

Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Appendix D to v.VII, p.711), identifies him
as father of ROBERT, COUNT OF EVREUX.

Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (166:33).

From Rosamond McKitterick.s, "The Frankish Kingdoms under the
Carolingians 751-987", London & NY (Longman) 1983, pp. 238-239:
"When in 942 WILLIAM was murdered at the instigation of COUNT
ARNULF OF FLANDERS (RIN 2173), his son Richard, still a minor,
succeeded him. LOUIS IV (RIN 1617) and HUGH THE GREAT (RIN 1206)
each tried to sieze Normandy, and LOUIS took charge of Richard. He then
ensconced himself at Rouen and HUGH took Bayeux, which still had a
Scandinavian leader called Sictric. Richard escaped from his custody at
Laon, retook Rouen, and called on another Viking leader, Harald of the
Bassin, for help. The Normans under Richard were able to re-establish
their autonomy and from 947 Richard governed in relative peace. In 965
he swore allegiance to the Carolingian king Lothar [son of LOUIS IV] at
Gisors. Richard's official marriage was to Emma, daughter of HUGH THE
GREAT; they had no children, but by his common-law wife GUNNOR, a
Dane, he had many. RICHARD II, son of GUNNOR and Richard I, succeeded
his father in 996, another son Robert was archbishop of Rouen from 989
to 1037 and EMMA their daughter became queen of England on her
marriage to AETHELREAD, a position she maintained after his death in
1016 by marrying Knut. GUNNOR's nephews and other relatives
furthermore formed the core of the new aristocracy which developed in
the course of the eleventh century. Unfortunately we know little about
the internal organization and history of Normandy until the reign of
RICHARD II."

From "Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066"
by Eleanor Searle, University of California Press, 1988:
"The Acknowledged Children of Richard I: Sons. The most revealing
evidence of the prestige and power of Richard and his successor is to be
found in the endowments and marriages of their children. The wife
whose Norseness and high status made her an acceptable equal in the
eyes of his chieftains was a woman whose children commanded paternal
recognition, for they would have powerful maternal kinsmen upon whose
loyalty they could call. Even so, it is remarkable that Dudo, with GUNNOR
at his side, tells the reader only the number of children she bore Richard:
five boys and three girls. He does not give their names, and Richard's
sons defy full identification. RICHARD II was certainly GUNNOR's son, as
was his virtual coruler, Robert, archbishop of Rouen. Charters identify
their relationship clearly, but they do not identify any of her husband's
other sons as GUNNOR's...." (p. 132, see below for source)
"Richard I and his new settler -in-laws of the 960s were the winners
who lasted. In becoming so they learned (and taught) two principles of
success that marked them off from the Franks. They learned the value of
a strong centralizing chieftain who could at least freeze the status quo
once his own local chieftains had taken what they wanted. The more
successful he was, the more chiefs attached themselves to him for just
this: with his warranty, backed by his chieftains, their defeated enemies
could not recover by violence what had been taken from them by violence.
Thus were the Norman dukes 'settlers of quaarrels.' Fearlessness was
the necessary quality in such a corrdinating chieftain, and Richard I, who
has no encomiast of his deeds, has at least this sobriquet, "the Fearless"
Those who were great fighters and the ruthlessly, selectively violent,
were the great centralizers among the threatened and rapacious Norse."

During the minority of his (WILLIAM LONG-SWORD) successor, Duke
Richard, KING LOUIS IV, who was making an expedition into Normandy,
was captured by the inhabitants of Rouen and handed over to HUGH THE
GREAT. From this time onwards the dukes of Normandy began to enter
into relations with the dukes of France; and in 958 Duke Richard married
HUGH THE GREAT's daughter. He died in 996. (Succeeded by RICHARD II.)

References: [RFC],[ES],[RoyalAAF],[Paget1],[Weis1],[AR7], [PlantagenetA],[ConverseA],[CP]


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  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 942.

Richard married Emma (Agnes) of Paris France Capet [3790] [MRIN: 1082], daughter of Hugh the Great of Neustria Capet Count of Paris [3862] and Hadwig of Saxony [5129], between 960 and 962 in France. (Emma (Agnes) of Paris France Capet [3790] died about 962.)

Richard next married Gunnora de Crepon Duchess of Normandy [3778] [MRIN: 1079] after 962 in France. (Gunnora de Crepon Duchess of Normandy [3778] was born about 936 in Normandy, France and died in 1031 in France.)

Richard next married Papia De Envermeu [41617] [MRIN: 551608990].

Richard next married.

Richard next married.