Eleanor of Normandy
| Eleanor of Normandy | |
|---|---|
Richard II of Normandy | |
| Mother | Judith of Brittany |
Eleanor of Normandy (c. 1012 - 1071) was
Baldwin IV of Flanders
.
She was born between 1011 and 1013 in
Poppa of Envermeu
, by whom he had two more sons.
In 1031 she married, as his second wife,
Countess of Flanders upon her marriage to Baldwin, and together they had one daughter:[citation needed
]
- Judith (1033 – 5 March 1094),[3] married firstly Tostig Godwinson,[4] Earl of Northumbria, by whom she allegedly had issue; and secondly Welf I, Duke of Bavaria,[5] by whom she had surviving issue.[clarification needed]
Eleanor died in Flanders sometime after 1071. Her husband had died in 1035, two years after the birth of their only child.
Despite her common nomenclature it is not certain that Eleanor was her proper name. Eleanor of Aquitaine, who lived a century later (and married as her second husband Henry II of England, the great-great-grandson of Eleanor of Normandy's brother Robert), is the first individual in recorded history known to bear the name Eleanor.
References
- ^ "Emma of Ivry, c.1008-1080", Charlotte Cartwright, Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400: Moving beyond the Exceptionalist Debate, editor Heather J. Tanner, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 94
- ^ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, editor Michael Swanton, Routledge, 1998, 298
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 5
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 8
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 74