Biography of Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux 1015-1067

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Around 1015 Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux was born to [his father] Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen (age 27) and [his mother] Herleva Countess Évreux.

In 1030 [his daughter] Agnès of Normandy was born to Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux (age 15) and [his future wife] Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon. She married before 1059 Simon Montfort and had issue.

In 1037 [his father] Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen (age 49) died. His son Richard (age 22) succeeded 2nd Count Évreux.

After 1040 Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux (age 25) and Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon were married. She by marriage Countess Évreux. He the son of Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen and Herleva Countess Évreux.

Before 7th June 1040 Roger "The Spaniard" Tosny (age 50) and [his wife] Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon were married.

History of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumieges. Roger of Beaumont (age 26), having overcome his adversaries, gave thanks to God for the victory, and throughout his whole life strove earnestly to do good works. Among these, he built on his own land the monastic abbey at Préaux, and he always remained faithful to Duke William against all others. For this reason he became more exalted than all his ancestors. For he married Adelina, daughter of Waleran, count of Meulan; and by her he begot two sons, Robert (age 1) and Henry, who afterward became powerful counts¹. Robert indeed, after his uncle Hugh, flourished as count of Meulan for more than twenty-seven years; and Henry received from King William in England the county of Warwick. After the aforesaid slaughter in which Roger of Tosny and Robert of Grandmesnil and many others fell, Richard (age 26), count of Évreux, son of Archbishop Robert, took to wife the widow² of Roger of Tosny, and by her begot [his son] William, who now rules the people of Évreux. And his [Richard's] brother [[his brother] William (age 36)] took as his wife Hawise, daughter of Giroie and widow of Robert of Grandmesnil.

Rogerius vero de Bellomonte, superatis adversariis, victori Deo gratiam retulit, et in omni vita sua bonis operibus insudare studuit. Inter quæ, monachile cœnobium in fundo suo Pratellis construxit, et Willelmo duci contra omnes fidelis semper exstitit. Quapropter omnibus avis proavisque suis sublimior effectus est. Nam Adelinam, Waleranni comitis Mellenti filiam, uxorem duxit; ex qua duos filios, Robertum et Henricum, magnæ potentiæ postea comites procreavit. Robertus quippe post Hugonem avunculum suum comes Mellentis plus quam viginti septem annis viguit; et Henricus Willelmi regis in Anglia commitatum Warwik promeruit. Post præfatam cædem in qua Rogerius et Robertus de Grentemaisnil et alii quamplures ceciderunt, Richardus Ebroicensis comes, filius Roberti archiepiscopi, uxorem Rogerii de Toenia sibi in matrimonio assumpsit, ex qua Willelmum, qui nunc Ebroicensibus principatur, genuit. Willelmus vero frater ejus Hadevisam filiam Geroii relictam Roberti de Grentemaisnil sibi junxit.

Note 1. Robert Beaumont, around 1040-1118, succeeded his father as Count of Meulan. He was one of the companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. He was created Earl of Leicester in 1107 by King Henry I. He married around 1096, he aged fifty, she around eleven, Elizabeth of Vermandois, daughter of Hugh the Great, grand-daughter of King Henry I of Francia, and had issue. Henry Beaumont, around 1050-1119. He was created Earl of Warwick in 1088 by King William II. He married, sometime before 1100, Marguerite of Chateaudun, daughter of Geoffrey III Count of Mortain and II of Perche, and had issue.

Note 2. [his wife] Adelaide aka Godehildis.

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Before 1059 [his son-in-law] Simon Montfort (age 33) and [his daughter] Agnès of Normandy (age 28) were married. She by marriage Seigneur Montfort. She the daughter of Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux (age 43) and [his wife] Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon.

History of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumieges. But Roger of Mortemer, son of the first William de Warenne, founded the monastery of Saint Victor¹ on his own land. Richard, Count of Évreux (age 45), in that same city, built a monastery of Saint Savior² for nuns. That same viscount, at Rouen, completed at his own expense the monastery of the Holy Trinity on the hill overlooking the city and established monks there to serve God.

At Rogerius de Mortuo Mari filius primi Willelmi de Warenna, monasterium Sancti Victoris in proprio solo fundavit. Richardus vero comes Ebroicensis in eadem urbe monasterium Sancti Salvatoris ad opus sanctimonialium fabricavit. Idem vicecomes apud Rothomagum in monte urbi imminenti cœnobium summæ Trinitati ex sumptu proprio consummans, monachos ibidem Deo servituros constituit.

Note 1. The Abbey of Saint-Victor at St Victor-en-Caux, the caput, i.e. chief seat, of the Mortimer family after the confiscation of its original caput Mortemer, in north-east Normandy, by Duke William following the Battle of Mortemer in 1054. The abbey was commenced commenced around 1074.

Note 2. Saint-Sauveur d´Evreux. The monastery was founded around 1060 by Richard, Count of Évreux, for Benedictine nuns. It was burned down in 1165. Nothing remains of the abbey today.

In 1067 Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux (age 52) died. His son William succeeded I Count Évreux.

[his daughter] Godehildis Normandy was born to Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux and Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon.

The History of William Marshal, Earl of Chepstow and Pembroke, Regent of England. Book 1 of 2, Lines 1-10152.

The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.

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[his son] William Normandy I Count Évreux was born to Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux and Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon. He married before 16th April 1118 his fourth cousin once removed Helvise de Nevers, daughter of William I of Nevers and Ermengarde of Tonnerre.

[his father] Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen and [his mother] Herleva Countess Évreux were married. She by marriage Countess Évreux. He the son of [his grandfather] Richard "Fearless" Normandy I Duke Normandy and [his grandmother] Gunnora Countess Ponthieu.

Biography of Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux 1015-1067

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