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In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western France. The duchy arose out of a grant of land to the Viking leader Rollo by the French king Charles the Simple in 911.
Statue of Rollo, founder of the fiefdom of Normandy, standing in Falaise, Calvados, birthplace of his descendant William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy who became King of England. Starting with Rollo, Normandy was ruled by an enduring and long-lived Viking dynasty. Illegitimacy was not a bar to succession and three of the first six rulers ...
Robert I of Normandy (22 June 1000 – July 1035), also known as Robert the Magnificent and by other names, was a Norman noble of the House of Normandy who ruled as duke of Normandy from 1027 until his death in 1035.
Duke of Normandy, married Sybilla, daughter of Geoffrey, Count of Conversano. [148] Richard was born before 1056, died around 1075. [49] William was born between 1056 and 1060, died on 2 August 1100. [49] King of England, killed in the New Forest. [149] Henry was born in late 1068, and died on 1 December 1135. [49]
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] During his minority, the first five years of his reign, his regent was Count Rodulf of Ivry, his uncle, who wielded the power and put down a peasant insurrection at the beginning of Richard's reign.
He is sometimes referred to as a "duke of Normandy", though the title duke (dux) did not come into common usage until the 11th century. [2] Longsword was known at the time as count (Latin comes) of Rouen. [3] [4] Flodoard—always detailed about titles—consistently referred to both Rollo and his son William as principes (chieftains) of the ...
Duke of Normandy r. 1170–1183 in his father's lifetime: Richard IV "Lionheart" 1157–1199 11th Duke of Normandy, King of England as "Richard I" r. 1189–1199: John "Lackland" 1166–1216 12th Duke of Normandy, King of England r. 1199–1216: Henry III 1207–1272 13th Duke of Normandy r. 1216–1259 King of England r. 1216–1272
Robert Curthose (c. 1051 – February 1134, French: Robert Courteheuse), was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and succeeded his father as Robert II of Normandy in 1087, reigning until 1106. Robert was also an unsuccessful pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of England .