The great third Duke of Normandy, Richard I, had four sons and three daughters in his lifetime, the eldest of which was William's uncle Robert, Earl of Evre, the second son was Richard II, Duke of Normandy, known as the 'good man', and the third son William and the fourth son Godfrey were successively canonized as the Earl of Euburg.

Richard I strengthened the rule of the House of Normandy over the Duchy of Normandy by canonizing his son as a local earl, and he proved to be the right choice.

Fifty years after the death of Duke Richard, his eldest son, Robert, Earl of Edreux, helped the down-and-out William re-establish himself as Duke of Normandy.

William's uncle, Robert, Earl of Evreux, did not become Duke of Normandy, and there was actually some reason for this.

William's uncle, Robert, was so devout to God and Christianity that he became a priest and even a bishop despite the opposition of Duke Richard, and at the same time he lost his right to inherit the Duke of Normandy.

Of course, in the end, Robert was persuaded by Duke Richard and his brother to abandon his decision to continue as a priest, and was canonized by Richard as Earl of Evreux.

Richard I's four sons all had their own successes, and his three daughters were also added to his family.

In addition to the eldest daughter, Beatrix, who remained celibate in devotion to God and never married, the second daughter, Hedwig, married Godfrey, then Duke of Brittany. Morality. Enre, third daughter Emma. Morality. Normandy's life is even more legendary, because she married two kings of England and her two sons became kings of England, a great woman destined to go down in history.

Emma of Normandy (985 – 3 June 1052) was queen of England, Denmark and Norway. She was the daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, and his second wife, the daughter of Gonola.

Emma. Morality. Normandy married Exered II of Wessex (1002-1016), King of England, and King Cnut the Great (1017-1035) of Norway and Denmark.

Through these two marriages, she became Queen of England, as well as Queen of Denmark and Norway.

She was also the mother of three sons, Edward the Confessor, Prince Alfred and Cnut II, and two daughters, Goddgiff of England and Gonhilda of Denmark.

Emma is a woman who is not willing to be lonely, and she continues to spread her influence while her husband is still alive.

Even after her husband's death, Emma remained in the public eye and continued to be politically active.

In 1035, Prince Alfred and Prince Edward went to England at Emma's invitation to deal with the evil Earl Godwin.

After that, thanks to her success, her two sons, Canute II and Edward the Confessor, became kings of England.

She is a central figure in history, an important source of early 11th-century English political history, and as Catherine Karkov points out, Emma was one of the most visually imaged queens of the Middle Ages.

The conversation returns to the fourth duke of the House of Normandy, 'Richard II the 'Good Man' (23 August 978 – 28 August 1026), known as the 'Good Man', the second son and heir of Richard I, son of the fearless Gonora.

Richard succeeded his father, Duke of Normandy, in 996. During the first five years of his reign, during his reign, his regent was his brother, Robert, Earl of Evre, who, at the beginning of Richard's reign, exercised power and suppressed peasant uprisings.

Richard had a deep religious interest, and he found that he had much in common with King Robert II of France, who helped the Duke of Burgundy in France militarily.

At the same time, he also entered into a marriage alliance with Brittany, and he married Godfrey, Duke of Brittany. Morality. Wren's sister Judith, while his sister Arianora was married by him to Baldwin IV, Duke of Flanders.

Therefore, William was related to the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Flanders, and he thought that he could use this to make some fuss about the people of the two duchies to accept his rule.

In 1000-1001, Richard II repelled an army led by King Ethelred II of England on the Cotentan Peninsula in the Earldom of Mortan.

King Ethred II of England had already given an order to capture Richard, tie him up and bring him to England, but the British were not prepared for the quick reaction of the Norman cavalry, they were completely defeated, and Ethel II was taken prisoner.

After this, Richard generously cast Ethel Red II, and through his sister Emma. Morality. Normandy's marriage to King Exered II of England to improve relations with England.

This marriage was significant because it was later given to his grandson, William the Conqueror, which was the basis for his succession to the English throne.

Improved relations proved beneficial when the Swedes invaded England in 1013, and Emma and her two sons, Edward and Alfred, fled to Normandy, and soon after, her husband, King Ethelde II of England, followed her to Normandy.

Shortly after the death of Ethel II, Emma was forced to marry the new King of England, Canute the Great, and Richard was forced to recognize the new regime as his sister became queen again.

During his reign, Richard had contact with Vikings. He hired Viking mercenaries and signed a treaty with King Olaf of Sweden, who was on his way to England.

In the years that followed, Richard II commissioned his clerk and penitent, Dudo of St. Quentin, to portray his ancestors as morally upright Christian leaders who founded Normandy despite the treachery of their lords and neighboring monarchies.

Apparently a propaganda effort aimed at legitimizing Norman settlement, it was largely reliable as the reign of his father and grandfather, Richard I and William I, despite the fact that it contained many historically unreliable legends.

In 1025 and 1026, Richard confirmed the gifts given to Saint-Euen by his great-grandfather Rollo in Rouen.

On August 28, 1026, the 4th Duke of Normandy died, and his eldest son, Richard III, William's uncle, became the 5th Duke of Normandy.

Richard III (1006.1.2 - 1027.2.3) was the eldest son of Richard II and died in 1027. Richard's short-lived reign, which lasted less than a year, began with a rebellion by his brother, ending his death for unknown reasons.

When Richard II died in August 1026, his eldest son, Richard III, became Duke of Normandy. Shortly after the beginning of his reign, his brother Robert, dissatisfied with his rule, rebelled against his brother at Simmons on the Normandy border.

Robert besieged the town of Falaise, but was soon caught by Richard's heel, and then forced Robert to swear allegiance before releasing him.

When Richard disbanded his army and returned to Rouen, he died suddenly (some suspect that it was Robert who assassinated him).

Eventually, the duchy passed to his younger brother Robert I the Magnum, William's father, the 6th Duke of Normandy.

The beginning of all these stories told in this book begins with Robert I, the 6th Duke of Normandy, and his illegitimate son, William.