Richard Vicomté d’Avranches

   Another name for Richard was Richard le Goz d'Avranches.

  General Notes:

~An Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk, "Predigree of Hugh Lupus," pg. 16 ⁷⁸²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁵
Richard le Goz descends from Ansfrid the Dane, the first who bore that surname. This ancestry is said to descend from Rongwald or Raungwaldar, Earl of Maere, or the Fair haired, who was the father of Hrolf, or Rollo, the first Duke of Nomandy. Rongwald, like the majority of his countrymen and kinsmen, had several children by a favorite slave, whom he married "more Dancico," and Hrolf Thurstain, the son of one of them, followed his uncle Rollo into Normandy and was able marry Gerlotte de Blois, daughter of Thibaut, Count of Blois and Chartres. From them descended the Lord of Briquebec, Bec-Cripin, Montfort-sur-Risle and others who figure as campanions of the Conqueror.

The third son of Gerlotte was Ansfrid the Dane, the first Vicomte of Hiemois, and father of Ansfrid the second, surnamed Goz, whose son Thurstain Goz was the great favorite of Robert Duke of Normandy, the father of the Conqueror, and accompanied him to the Holy Land. He was intrusted to bring back the relics the Duke had obtained from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to present to the Abbey of Cerisi, in 1035. Thurstain revolted against the Young Duke William in 1041, and was exiled with all his land confiscated and given by the Duke, to his own mother, Herleve, who was also the wife of Herluin de Contevill.

Richard le Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches, of more properly of the Avranchin, was one of the sons of Thurtain, by his wife, Judith de Montanolier, and appears not only to have avoided being implicated in the rebellion of his father, but obtained he pardon and restoration to the Vicomté of the Hiemois, to which, at his death he had succeeded, and to have strengthened his position at court by marring Emma de Conteville, one of the daughter of Herluin and Herleve, and the half-sister of his soverign. This was a very fortunate marriage which helped him recover the lands forfeited by his father. He also acquired much property in the Avranchin, of which he obtained the Vicomté, in addition to the land he inherited, Hiemois, from his father.

~The Conquerors and his Companions, pg. 18

• Background Information. ⁷³²
The descent of the house of d'Avranches is traced back through Ansfrid the Dane to Rögnvaldr the Viking, and a brother of Rollo, first Duke Normandy. Richard d'Avranches married Emma or Emmeline, who was the daughter Herleva (or Arletta) and Herlwin de Conteville. Emma was then the step-sister of William the Conqueror.

~The Peshale Family, 870-1913, pg. 45-46

Richard married Emma de Conteville, daughter of Herluin Vicomté de Conteville and Herlève de Falaise ⁷²⁵.^,732 (Emma de Conteville was born about 1029.)