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Robert I of Normandy's father, Richard II , had made an alliance with England by marrying his sister Emma to King Æthelred . When Cnut ...

How lucky is it that the duke whose duchy you want to appropriate defeats you, allows you to live if you pledge loyalty to him, then dies al...

Richard II of Normandy had several children, and used them as instruments of policy to make alliances by marrying them to important people. ...