Judith of Rennes ( 982–1017) was Duchess of Normandy from 1000 until her death.
Life Judith, born in 982, was the daughter of Conan I, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou. She was a part of an important double marriage alliance between Normandy and Brittany first recorded by William of Jumièges.K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, 'Poppa of Bayeux And Her Family', The American Genealogist, Vol. 72 No. 4 (July/October 1997), p. 192 n. 12
In 996, her brother Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany married Hawise of Normandy, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy while in c. 1000 Judith married Richard II, Duke of Normandy, Hawise's brother.David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 29 The duchess Judith died on 28 August 1017 and was buried in the abbey of Bernay, which she had founded in 1013.Edward Bell, 'The Abbey Church of Bernay', The Archaeological Review, Vol. IV (August, 1899 – January, 1890), p. 57
Family Judith married Richard II, Duke of Normandy in c. 1000. They had: Richard III, Duke of Normandy Alice of Normandy, married Renaud I, Count of Burgundy. Robert I, Duke of Normandy William (c. 1007/9), monk at Fécamp, d. 1025. Eleanor (c. 1011/3), married to Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders. Matilda (c. 1013/5), nun at Fécamp, d. 1033. She died young.David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 31
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