Richard was Vice Count de Abrinces, that is Auranches in Normandy. Hereconciled his father to the Duke of Normandy by his good carriage andgot more than his father had lost. He was Governor of the Castle of St.James in Normandy and Brittany. He married Emma, half sister of Williamthe Conqueror, daughter of Herloin, a Norman nobleman, who marriedHerlotta or Arlotta, the Conqueror's mother, who was not married to hisfather.