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Personal data Gunnora van Normandië 

• She was born in the year 950.

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Robert "de Deen" van ?vreux) was born (??-??-965) .

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Gunnora of Gunnor (ca 950 [1] - 1031) was de echtgenote van Richard I van Normandië. Ze behoorde vermoedelijk tot de Deense adel in Normandië. Soms wordt haar broer Herefast de Crepon ten onrechte als haar vader gezien.
  
  Ze woonde bij haar zus Seinfreda, de vrouw van een lokale bosbeheerder, toen Richard, die in de buurt op jacht was, van de schoonheid van de vrouw van de bosbeheerder hoorde. Men zegt dat hij Seinfreda zou hebben bevolen met hem het bed te delen, maar Seinfreda stuurde haar ongetrouwde zuster, Gunnora, in haar plaats. Richard was, naar men zegt, achteraf blij dat hij op deze wijze gered werd van de zonde van het plegen van overspel, maar dat lijkt achteraf gepraat. In ieder geval viel de gok van Seinfreda goed uit. Gunnora en Richard werden geliefden. Gunnora fungeerde lang als minnares van Richard volgens de Deense gewoonte, maar toen dit Richard veel later verhinderde hun zoon Robert voor te dragen als aartsbisschop van Rouen, trouwden de twee alsnog, waardoor hun kinderen in de ogen van de kerk gewettigd werden.
  
  Na het overlijden van Richard speelde Gunnora een belangrijke rol in het bestuur van Normandië. Naast haar kinderen kregen ook haar neven belangrijke posities. Verschillende van de meest prominente Normandische magnaten in het Engeland van na 1066, met inbegrip van de Montgomery, Warenne, Mortimer, Vernon/Redvers, en FitzOsbern families, waren afstammelingen van haar broer en zusters.
  
  Gunnora stierf op ongeveer tachtigjarige leeftijd.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Gunnora (or Gunnor) (c.?950–c.?1031) was the wife and consort of Richard I of Normandy.
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  Life
  
  All that is known of Gunnora's parentage is that she belonged to a family who had settled in the Pays de Caux.[2] Robert of Torigni wrote she was a forester's daughter from the Pays de Caux and according to Dudo of Saint-Quentin she was of noble Danish origin.[3] Gunnora was probably born c.?950.[4] Her family held sway in western Normandy and Gunnora herself was said to be very wealthy.[5] Her marriage to Richard I was of great political importance, both to her husband[a] and her progeny.[6] Her brother, Herfast de Crepon, was progenitor of a great Norman family.[5] Her sisters and nieces[b] married some of the most important nobles in Normandy.[7]
  
  Robert of Torigni recounts a story of how Richard met Gunnora.[8] She was living with her sister Seinfreda, the wife of a local forester, when Richard, hunting nearby, heard of the beauty of the forester's wife. He is said to have ordered Seinfreda to come to his bed, but the lady substituted her unmarried sister, Gunnora. Richard, it is said, was pleased that by this subterfuge he had been saved from committing adultery and together they had three sons and three daughters.[c][9] Unlike other territorial rulers, the Normans recognized marriage by cohabitation or more danico. But when Richard was prevented from nominating their son Robert to be Archbishop of Rouen, the two were married, "according to the Christian custom", making their children legitimate in the eyes of the church.[9]
  
  Gunnora attested ducal charters up into the 1020s, was skilled in languages and was said to have had an excellent memory.[10] She was one of the most important sources of information on Norman history for Dudo of St. Quentin.[11] As Richard's widow she is mentioned accompanying her sons on numerous occasions.[10] That her husband depended on her is shown in the couple's charters where she is variously regent of Normandy, a mediator and judge, and in the typical roll of a medieval aristocratic mother, an arbitrator between her husband and their oldest son Richard II.[10]
  
  Gunnora was a founder and supporter of Coutances Cathedral and laid its first stone.[12] In one of her own charters after Richard's death she gave two alods to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, namely Britavilla and Domjean, given her by her husband in dower, which she gave for the soul of her husband, and the weal of her own soul and that of her sons "count Richard, archbishop Robert, and others..."[13] She also attested a charter, c.?1024–26, to that same abbey by her son, Richard II, shown as Gonnor matris comitis (mother of the count).[14] Gunnora, both as wife and countess,[d] was able to use her influence to see her kin favored, and several of the most prominent Anglo-Norman families on both sides of the English Channel are descended from her, her sisters and nieces.[10] Gunnora died c.?1031

• She died in the year 1031, she was 81 years old.
• A child of Herbast I van Crepon and Cyrid
• This information was last updated on May 15, 2013.

Household of Gunnora van Normandië

She is married to Richard I "zonder vrees" van Normandie.

They got married in the year 989, she was 39 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Mauger van Normandie  
2. Robert "de Deen" van Évreux  965-1037 
3. Richard II "de goede" van Normandie  966-1027 
4. Havise Hedwig  977-1034 
5. Emma van Normandië  985-1052 

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