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Gunnor (the Fearless)
d. 1031
shown under married name (maiden name not established)
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1031
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Gunnor was the Danish-descended wife of Richard the Fearless, the matriarch through whom half the great families of Normandy traced their blood; she governed ably in her own right and lived far into her grandsons' time.
Research notes
GUNNOR (c.950-c.1031), wife of Richard I of Normandy; mother of Richard II (our line); the great matriarch of the Norman aristocracy (the Beaumonts' Humphrey de Vieilles was of her kin). Danish parentage note-only. Standard well-documented medieval royal genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened.