Richard,
count of Évreux Richard,
count of ÉvreuxRichard obtained possession of the county of Évreux on the death of his father Robert, and was succeeded by his son William in 1067.
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 13 December 1067.
[Douglas (1946), 133, citing Lot (1913), 82 (not seen by
me)]
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father:
Robert, d. 1037, archbishop of Rouen and count of Évreux.
[GND (Rob. Tor.) vii, 2-4 (vol. 2, pp. 94-9); viii, 17
(vol. 2, pp. 232-3); OV v, 9 (vol. 3, pp. 84-5)]
Mother:
Herleve.
[OV v, 9 (vol. 3, pp. 84-5)]
Spouse(s): Godehilde, widow of Roger de Tosny.
[GND (Orderic) vii, 2-4 (vol. 2, pp. 94-9); GND (Rob.
Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2, pp. 232-3); van Houts 229]
Children:
[See the page on Godehilde for the
children of her first marriage.]
William, d. 18×20 April 1118 [Ex Uticensis Monasterii Necrologio, RHF 23:
486: 18 April; Ex Obituario Ecclesiæ Ebroicensis, RHF
23: 462: 20 April], count of Évreux.
[GND (Orderic) vii, 2-4 (vol. 2, pp. 94-9); GND
(Rob. Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2, pp. 232-3)]
Agnes, m. Simon
I de Montfort-l'Amaury.
[GND (Orderic) vii, 2-4 (vol. 2, pp. 94-9); GND
(Rob. Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2, pp. 232-3)]
Godehilde, fl. 1055×1066, nun at
Saint-Saveur, Évreux.
Godehilde was mentioned in the foundation
charter of Saint-Sevreux by her father Richard [Fauroux (1961),
396 (#208)]
Douglas (1946) = David Douglas, "The Earliest Norman Counts", English Historical Review 61 (1946), 129-156.
Fauroux (1961) = Marie Fauroux, Recueil des actes des ducs de Normandie de 911 à 1066 (Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 36, Caen, 1961).
GND = Guillaume de Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, as edited in Elisabeth van Houts, ed. & trans., The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, 2 vols., (Oxford, 1992). Citation is by book and chapter of Guillaume's work, with the volume and page number of the edition by van Houts in parentheses.
GND (Orderic) = Additions to GND by Orderic Vitalis.
GND (Rob. de Tor.) = Additions to GND by Robert de Torigny.
Lot (1913) = Ferdinand Lot, Études critiques sur l'abbaye de Saint-Wandrille (Paris, 1913). [Not seen by me]
van Houts = Elisabeth van Houts, ed. & trans., The Normans in Europe (Manchester & New York, 2000) [gives English translations of many of the primary sources relevant to early Norman history]
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin