of Normandy, Robert II Curthose

1054 - 1134  (~ 80 years)

• Name	of Normandy, Robert II Curthose
  Nickname	Courteheuse
  Birth	c 1054	Normandy,France.
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Feb 1134	Cardiff,Wales.
  Burial	Gloucester Cathedral,Gloucestershire.
  Person ID	I2590	Wilkinson
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2016

  
  

  Father	of Normandy, William I King,   b. 14 Oct 1024, Normandy,France. d. 9 Sep 1087 (Age 62 years)
  Mother	of Flanders, Matilda Queen,   b. 1031, Ghent,Vlaanderen d. 2 Nov 1083, Caen,Normandy,France. (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F1004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	of Conversano, Sybilla   d. c. 1102
  Children	1. Clito, William Count of Flanders,   b. 25 Oct 1102   d. 1128 (Age 25 years)
  Family ID	F1132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Duke from 1087-1106) BIOGRAPHY: Born in 1052, eldest son of William of Normandy and Matilda of Flanders, Robert Curthose , according to the will of his father, took over the destiny of the Duchy of Normandy in 1087, the death of the Conqueror, while his younger brother William 'roux' receives the land of conquest and the crown of Angletere inheritance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert will be illustrated by taking part in the First Crusade alongside Hugh the Great and Robert of Flanders. Brave and generous but weak character and poor statesman, constantly in contention with his brothers, his attitude will result in final reunification of the Duchy of Normandy and the Kingdom of England by his younger brother Henry Beauclerc first. BIOGRAPHY: Stay long in the shadow of his father, William 'the Conqueror', Robert aspires to power. In permanent revolt with his father, he left Normandy in 1077. In 1078, backed by the King of France, he claims his right to the duchy of Normandy by gathering an army to Gerberoy stronghold perched on a hillock in the Pays de Bray. William heard the news landed at Dieppe and laid siege to Gerberoy. After three weeks of fighting William of Normandy up the game while his second son William 'Rufus', wounded, took refuge in the monastery of St. Germer. BIOGRAPHY: In 1080, reconciled, at least temporarily, with his father, he receives a command to restore order in County Durham and imposing Norman authority to the king of Scotland. It was then that he founded the fortress of Newcastle. His mission accomplished, he abandoned his duties and went back to the adventure back in Normandy in 1087, the death of his father. BIOGRAPHY: Became Duke of Normandy, more interested in the art of war by the business of the duchy, he raised an army, says Normandy to his brother William Rufus and hand in 1096 for the first crusade alongside Baudouin Boulogne, and Godfrey of Bouillon. On 1 January 1097, the Normans of Normandy and Italy, led by Bohemond, Tancred, Robert Curthose and rout the army Turco-Arab at the battle of Dolyr?. Robert is illustrated again in 1098 during the siege and capture of Antioch. BIOGRAPHY: Back in Normandy in spring 1100, Robert learns of the death of his brother William and the takeover of the first Henry Beauclerc, meanwhile proclaimed King of England. In 1101, he went to Portsmouth to enforce its rights. Henry resists the ducal army. Forced to parley, Robert, by the Treaty of Alton, finally renounces his claim to the throne of England and returned peacefully to Normandy. BIOGRAPHY: September 28, 1106: THE BATTLE OF Tinchebray BIOGRAPHY: The truce is short lived. Henry Beauclerc first saw Robert in a serious threat to the integrity of England and Normandy, invaded the duchy, in the year 1105. After taking control of Caen and Bayeux, Henry interrupts, one time, his campaign to return to England. Back on the mainland the following summer, he began the siege of the castle which are entrenched Tinchebray Robert Curthose, William of Mortain and Robert of Bell?me. On September 28, 1106, after a brief but violent battle, the army of King Henry, with a brilliant maneuver conducted by the Count of Maine Elias of the Arrow, takes the ascendancy over the ducal army . Captured at the end of the fighting, revoked, Robert is taken to England to be imprisoned in Cardiff where he ended his days in 1134. Artisan of the reunification of the Anglo-Norman kingdom, Henry Beauclerc first Duke of Normandy is recognized October 15, 1106. BIOGRAPHY: Tinchebray, THE REVENGE OF HASTINGS? BIOGRAPHY: Although it profoundly influenced the history of Normandy, England and the crown of France, the Battle of Tinchebray is in no way any hand of Hastings. For Norman, this battle has just restore the duchy to the youngest son of the Conqueror , a duchy which, after twenty years of disorder, will again know peace and prosperity. As before, the Normans gourvern?s continue to be under their own laws and customs. Similarly, Britain will maintain tenuous relations with Normandy and the Crown of France will feel more than ever threatened by the rediscovered unity of Anglo-Norman kingdom more and more powerful. BIOGRAPHY: TWO FOR ONE WILLIAM DUCHY BIOGRAPHY: Between 1109 and 1128, tensions are growing between the kingdom of France and England. War broke out in 1109 and ended in 1113 by the Treaty of Gisors; a humiliating treaty where King Louis VI of France was forced to cede sovereignty over Maine and Brittany to King Heni. Refusing to admit defeat, Louis VI outbreak response by supporting the pretensions to the duchy of Normandy by William Cliton , son of Robert Curthose, against William Adelin, eldest son of the King of England. In spring 1118, the armies of Henry, attacked by the French, the Flemings, Angevins and Normans few favorable to the cause of William Cliton, losing ground in the Vexin and Maine. On August 20, 1119, Louis VI, not doubting of victory, launches an assault on the Anglo-Norman army in the plain of Bremule located about twenty miles from Rouen. The Capetian, defeated on the battlefield, takes refuge in Andelys before being forced to negotiate the following year, a new treaty which he obtained for single concession, that William Adelin pay him homage for Normandy. BIOGRAPHY: November 25, 1120, William Adelin, son and heir of Henry 1st died in the sinking of the White Ship. William Cliton taking the opportunity of seeking the support of the new king of France. In 1123, the war goes again, a war that will end after the death of William Cliton in 1128 and subsequent disappearance of the first Henti that will trigger a long and bloody war of succession to the throne of England between Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois and lay the basis of future kingdom Plantagenet. BIOGRAPHY: http://www.normandie-heritage.com/spip.php?article124 -------------------------------------