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Richard II (died 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the duke of Normandy from 996 until 1026.
Richard II (died 1026/27) was the duke of Normandy (996–1026/27), son of Richard I the Fearless. He held his own against a peasant insurrection, helped Robert II of France against the duchy of Burgundy, and repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsula that was led by the Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred II the Unready.
Richard II (23 August 963 - 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the Duke of Normandy from 996 to 1026. He was the first to assume the title of duke [source?] and built up his court to resemble that of a king.
Successor to his father Richard I in 996, Richard II was the first of his family to be unambiguously referred to as duke of Normandy, a title that is also often given anachronistically to his three predecessors. At his death in 1026, Richard was succeeded in turn by his sons Richard III and Robert. Date of Birth: Unknown. Place of Birth: Unknown.
The first official recorded use of the title duke (dux) is in an act in favour of the Abbey of Fécamp in 1006 by Richard II, Duke of Normandy. Earlier, the writer Richer of Reims had called Richard I a dux pyratorum , but which only means "leader of pirates" and was not a title.
Richard I's son, Richard II, was the first to be styled duke of Normandy, the ducal title becoming established between 987 and 1006. [10] The Norman dukes created the most powerful, consolidated duchy in Western Europe between the years 980, when the dukes helped place Hugh Capet on the French throne, and 1050. [11]
Family tree. The death of Edward, the in 1376 left his second son, Richard (1367-1400), heir to the throne of England (Richard's older brother Edward of Angoulême had died in 1371). In 1377, Richard succeeded to the throne, aged ten, on the death of his grandfather, .
Richard II (23 August 963 - 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon ), was the Duke of Normandy from 996 to 1026. He was the first to assume the title of duke [source?] and built up his court to resemble that of a king.
Richard II (died 28 August 1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon ), was the duke of Normandy from 996 until 1026. Contents. Life. Marriages and children. References. Sources. Life. Richard was the eldest surviving son and heir of Richard the Fearless and Gunnor. [1] . He succeeded his father as the ruler of Normandy in 996. [1] .
Highly cultured, Richard was one of the greatest royal patrons of the arts; patron of Chaucer, it was Richard who ordered the technically innovative cantilevered roof transforming the Norman Westminster Hall to what it is today.
