• General Notes

  Sources: RC 89, 131; Kraentzler 1156, 1218, 1241, 1264, 1265, 1342,1350;
  Coe; Dukes; AF; K & Q of Britain; Norr; A. Roots 121, 121E, 130;France,
  Vol. 1 (1868), by M. Guizot and Madame Guizot de Witt; AIS; Davis.
  Roots: Robert I, Duke of Normandy. Married (Danish wife) Arlette(or
  Herleve). Left issue by this mistress.
  K: Robert I "le Magnifique ou le Diable." Count d'Hieme. Duke ofNormandy.
  In line 1350 he calls him erroneously calls him Richard I.
  Robert was called both "The Magnificent" and also "Robert the
  Devil," because of his "reckless and violent deeds of audacity,whether in
  private life or in warlike expeditions." In 1034 or 1035, after a"fair life
  from the political point of view, but one full of turbulence and moral
  irregularity" he undertook a pilgrimage, barefoot, to Jerusalem "toexpiate his
  sins..." The Norman prelates and barons urged him not to go becausethey
  believed he might die on the pilgrimage (they were right) and he hadno
  successor. Robert, therefore, named his bastard son, William, as hissuccessor
  and prevailed upon King Henry I of France to sanction thearrangement--a
  decision the king was later to regret.
  Guizot says Robert I was the fifth in succession from Rollo, thefirst ruler
  of Normandy. William was named after William Longsword, the son andsuccessor
  of Rollo. So the Norman reign went from Rollo, to William Longsword,Richard I,
  Richard II, Richard III, Robert I and William, who would becomeWilliam the
  Conqueror and, subsequently, William I, King of England.
  Richard III and Robert I were sons of Richard II, according to achart in
  Butler.
  Robert instructed Herluin (another spelling) de Conteville to marryhis
  mistress, Harlette, if he failed to return from the Crusade. Herluindid so,
  and they had children.
  Dukes says Robert's last years were marked by signs of"eccentricity, if not
  unsoundness of mind."
  AIS: Robert, Duke of Normandy, born about 995, Normandy, France;died 2 July
  1035, Nicaea, Turkey.
  Davis: Robert I, the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy 1027-1035.
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