NameHedwig (Hawise) De Normandie
Death21 Feb 1034
Spouses
Birth980
Death1008
Death Memokilled
Notes for Hedwig (Hawise) De Normandie
Father: Normandy, Richard I the Fearless of, Duke of Normandy 3rd, b.
933
Mother: Crêpon, Gunnor of
Notes for Godfrey (Geoffrey) I (Spouse 1)
Count of Rennes
Child 1: , Alan III of Bretaign, Count of Bretaign
Child 2: , Adela of Rennes, Abbess St.Georges Rennes
Child 3: , Eudon "comes Britanniae"
From Cokayne's "Complete Peerage", in the article on Richmond: "In the 11th century and the early part of the 12th the rulers of Brittany styled themselves indifferently "Duke" or "Count"; thereafter "Duke" became the rule. The English chancery, however, as also the Papal and French, continued to use the older style of "Count". In the present article the term "Duke" has been used throughout in order to avoid confusion with the comital style applied to other members of the
family." I do likewise in this genealogy.
Per Galliou and Jones' "The Bretons", when Geoffrey departed for Rome on a pilgrimige from which he never returned, he left his sons, ALAIN and EUDES under the protection of RICHARD II, DUKE OF NORMANDY (RIN 1306), who also proffered assistance during the last Viking attack on the duchy in 1013-14. Later, under ROBERT I (RIN 1323) (1027-35), relations between Brittany and Normandy deteriorated, but were eventually patched up.