Robert "le Magnifique" Duc de Normandy

  General Notes:

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 121:23, 121E:22, 130:23. His nickname, "The Devil", was earned, at least in part, from the fact that he killed his brother, Richard, in order to make himself Duke of Normandy. AKA "The Magnificent" ¹⁶⁰

~The Normans, p. 22-23, Robert may have poisoned his older brother Ricahrd III in order to succeed him as Duke of Normandy. During the millennium of Christ's death in 1033, Robert went on a piligrimage to Jerusalem. ¹⁶⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Robert "le Magnifique". ¹⁷⁴
"When his father Duke Richard II died in 1026, Robert was made count of Hiémois under his elder brother Richard III as his share of the inheritance. Less than a year later, Richard III had died and Robert became duke of Normandy. Having set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, Robert died at Nicaea during the return trip, and was succeeded by his young son William, later known as William "the Conqueror"."

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Robert II Duke of Normandy.
Guillaume of Jumièges names "Richardum...atque Robertum et Willelmum" as the three sons of "dux Richardus" and his wife "Goiffredum Britannorum comitem...sororem...Iudith"[Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber V, XIII, p. 255]. Ademar names Robert as brother of Richard [209]. Guillaume of Jumièges records that Richard II Duke of Normandy, on his deathbed, confirmed the succession of his son Richard and granted "comitatui Oximensi" [Hiesmes] to "Robertum fratrem eius"[Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber V, XIII, p. 257].

Robert married Herlève de Falaise, daughter of Fulbert de Falaise and Unknown. (Herlève de Falaise was born about 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France,¹⁶⁰ died about 1050 ¹⁶⁰ and was buried in Abbaye St. Gre.)