Other Events and Attributes:

• _MILT: Sent by his father in command of a large army, to attack bishop/count Hugh of Chalon in order to rescue his brother-in-law, Reginald, later Count of Burgundy, whom the count/bishop had captured and imprisoned

Notes:

Died:
No sooner had Richard disbanded his army and returned to Rouen, he died suddenly (some say suspiciously)

Richard married Countess of Flanders and Normandy Saint Adela Capet in Jan 1027. Saint (daughter of King of the Franks Robert Capet, II and Constance True d'Arles de Provence) was born in 1003 in France; died on 8 Jan 1079 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France; was buried in Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]