Judith of Brittany

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Judith of Rennes (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 982–1017) was Duchess of Normandy from Template:C. 1000 until her death.

Life

Judith, born in 982, was the daughter of Conan I, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". She was a part of an important double marriage alliance between Normandy and Brittany first recorded by William of Jumièges.[1]

In 996, her brother Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany married Hawise of Normandy, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy while in c. 1000 Judith married Richard II, Duke of Normandy, Hawise's brother.[2] The duchess Judith died on 28 August 1017 and was buried in the abbey of Bernay, which she had founded in 1013.[3]

Family

Judith married Richard II, Duke of Normandy in c. 1000. They had:

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  • Eleanor (c. 1011/3), married to Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders.Template:Efn
  • Matilda (c. 1013/5), nun at Fecamp, d. 1033. She died young and unmarried.[4]

Notes

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References

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  1. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, 'Poppa of Bayeux And Her Family', The American Genealogist, Vol. 72 No. 4 (July/October 1997), p. 192 n. 12
  2. David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 29
  3. Edward Bell, 'The Abbey Church of Bernay', The Archaeological Review, Vol. IV (August, 1899 – January, 1890), p. 57
  4. David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 31

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Duchess consort of Normandy
996–1017 Template:S-ttl/check
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