Ancestral Trails 2016 » RICHARD de NORMANDY III (997-1028)

Personal data RICHARD de NORMANDY III 

• He was born in the year 997 in Normandie, France.
• (Relationship) : 29th Great Grandfather.
• (Relationship) : 29th Great Grandfather.
• He died on August 6, 1028 in Normandy, France, he was 31 years old.Source 1

  Poisoned

• A child of RICHARD de NORMANDY and JUDITH de RENNES

Household of RICHARD de NORMANDY III

(1) He had a relationship with UNKNOWN.

(2) He is married to ADELAIDE CAPET.

They got married January 1026/27, he was 29 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



Child(ren):

1. HELENA de NORMANDY  1027-???? 
2. ALICE de NORMANDY  1021-1098 




Notes about RICHARD de NORMANDY III

Richard III (997/1001 - 6 August 1027) was the eldest son of Richard II who died in 1026. Richard's short reign lasted less than a year. It opened with a revolt by his brother and finished in his death by unknown causes.

Around 1020, Richard's father sent him in command of a large army to rescue his brother-in-law, Reginald, later Count of Burgundy, by attacking bishop and count Hugh of Chalon, who had captured and imprisoned Reginald.

When Richard II died in August of 1026, as the eldest son, Richard III became Duke of Normandy. Shortly after his reign began his brother Robert, discontented with his province of Hyemes on the border of Normandy, revolted against his brother. He laid siege to the town of Falaise, but was soon brought to heel by Richard who captured him, then released him on his oath of fealty. No sooner had Richard disbanded his army and returned to Rouen, when he died suddenly (some say suspiciously). The duchy passed to his younger brother Robert I.

In January 1027 he was married to Adela, of a noble lineage. She is usually identified with Adela, a younger daughter of King Robert II of France, who after Richard's death 6 August 1027, remarried to Baldwin V, Count of Flanders.[

By Adela of France, Richard had two children:

Helena of Normandy who married Nigel I de Sauveur, Viscount Cotentin
Avelina FitzRichard who married Osbern Giffard

By an unknown woman, he had two more children:

Alice/Alix, who married Ranulph, Viscount of Bayeux
Nicolas, Monk at Fecamp, Abbot of Saint-Ouen, Rouen (died 26 Feb 1092)
SOURCE: Wikipedia


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