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His Brother Richard: ROBERT I (called THE DEVIL, duke of Xormandy: d. Nicaea, Asia Minor, July 22, 1035. Father of William the Conqueror and younger son of Duke Richard II, he succeeded his brother Richard III, whom he was accused of poisoning, in 1028. After stamping out an uprising of vassals led by his uncle Robert, archbishop of Rouen and count of Evreux, he re-established his brother-in-law Baldwin IV as count of Flanders in 1030, and a year later, upon making an alliance with Henry I of France, received the French part of the district of Vexin.
Brought before the imperial Diet, Richard pledged himself to a ransom of 150,000 marks and received his English kingdom as a fief from the emperor. The influence of the French king and Richard's own brother was effectual in prolonging the English king's imprisonment. Liberated in March 1194 he landed in England in the same month and was crowned a second time.
The murders of Edward, of Wales, after Tewkesbury, and that of VI, in the Tower, are also ascribed tc Richard became grand chamberlain of En and, marrying Anne, the younger daugh Warwick, fell into violent disputes wit brother Clarence who was the husband elder daughter. The death of Clarence in for which Gloucester cannot be made d: responsible, greatly enriched the latter. Ir he became lieutenant general of the nort in 1482 carried on a victorious campaij Scotland. Edward IV died in April 1483 If Richard as guardian of his 13-year-ok Edward and protector of the kingdom.
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