Richard of Normandy

Richard of Normandy
Born	c.1054 Normandy, France
Died	c.1069-1075 New Forest, England
Burial	Winchester Cathedral
House	Norman Dynasty
Father	William I of England
Mother	Matilda of Flanders

Richard of Normandy (c. 1054 to between 1069 and 1075) was the second son of William the Conqueror, King of England, and Matilda of Flanders.^[1]

Between 1069 and 1075, Richard died in a hunting accident in the New Forest.^[2][3] He was buried at Winchester Cathedral. In a twist of fate, his younger brother, King William Rufus, and a nephew, also named Richard, were also killed in the New Forest thirty years later.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Richard of Normandy

16. Richard I, Duke of Normandy               8. Richard II, Duke of Normandy                       17. Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy               4. Robert I, Duke of Normandy                             18. Conan I of Rennes               9. Judith of Brittany                       19. Ermengarde of Anjou               2. William I of England                                   10. Fulbert of Falaise                       5. Herleva                             1. Richard, Duke of Bernay                                         24. Arnulf II, Count of Flanders               12. Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders                       25. Rozala of Italy               6. Baldwin V, Count of Flanders                             26. Frederick of Luxembourg               13. Ogive of Luxembourg                       3. Matilda of Flanders                                   28. Hugh Capet               14. Robert II of France                       29. Adelaide of Aquitaine               7. Adela of France                             30. William I of Provence               15. Constance of Arles                       31. Adelaide of Anjou

Notes

1. He is sometimes referred to as the "Duke of Bernay", as if part of his father's continental possessions, as in Burke's Peerage; this is a mistake based on the misinterpretation of a 16th-century inscription on his tomb, which was also intended for the Earl Beorn, nephew of Cnut the Great (James Robinson Planché's note, "An erroneous inscription in Winchester Cathedral", Journal of the British Archaeological Association 14 (1858:284-87).
2. David Bates, William I, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography,2004
3. Orderic Vitalis, (Marjorie Chibnall, ed. and tr.) 3:114; Worcester Chronicle, (B. Thorpe, ed.) 2:45; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum anglorum (R.B. Mynors, ed.) 2:333 (all noted in C. Warren Hollister, Henry I (Yale English Monarchs) 2001:33, note 16).