Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of Normandy 
Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of was born about 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France. Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of's father was Richard II "The Good" Duke of Normandy and his mother was Judith of Brittany. His paternal grandparents were Richard I "The Fearless" Duke of Normandy and Gunnora (Gundra) de Crepon; his maternal grandmother was Ermengarde d' Anjou. He had two brothers and three sisters, named Richard III Duke of, Mauger Seigneur de, Fresende of, Alice Adelaide of and Judith de. He was the third oldest of the six children. He died on July 2nd, 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem).General Notes
Robert I, byname ROBERT The MAGNIFICENT, or The DEVIL, French ROBERT le MAGNIFIQUE, or le DIABLE (d. July 1035, Nicaea), duke of Normandy (1027-35), the younger son of Richard II of Normandy and the father, by his mistress Arlette, of William the Conqueror of England. On the death of his father (1026/27), Robert contested the duchy with his elder brother Richard III, legally the heir, until the latter's opportune death a few years later. A strong ruler, Robert succeeded in exacting the obedience of his vassals. On the death of Robert II the Pious, king of France (1031), a crisis arose over the succession to the French throne. The Duke gave his support to Henry I against the party favouring his younger brother; in reward for his services he demanded and received the Vexin FranÁais, a territory not far north of Paris. A patron of the monastic reform movement, he died while returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0860 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.~ 0932 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 0938 in France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, France d.~ 0972
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.0911 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.0923 in Sweden
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.0870 in Anjou, France d.0941
- b.~ 0909 in Anjou, France d.11 Nov 0958 in Tours, France
- b.~ 0875 in Loches, Touraine, France
- b.11 Nov 0938 in Anjou, France d.21 Jul 0987
- b.0890 in Orleans, France d.~ 0942 in Gatinais, Orleanais, France
- b.0915 in Gatinais, Orleanais, France d.0952
- b.~ 0893 in Auvergne, France d.> 0942
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 FEB 942/43 in St Quentin, France
- b.~ 0920 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.29 Aug 0968
- b.~ 0890 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0931 in France
- b.~ 0950 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 0976
- b.0890 in Chalons, Champagne, France d.08 Apr 0956 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0916 in Bourgogne, France d.~ 0959
- b.~ 0893 in Bourgogne, France d.0952
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