

Byname RICHARD THE GOOD, French RICHARD LE BON, duke of Normandy(996-1026/27), son of Richard I the Fearless. He held his own againsta peasant insurrection, helped Robert II of France against the duchyof Burgundy, and repelled an English attack on the Cotentin Peninsulathat was led by the Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred II the Unready. He alsopursued a reform of the Norman monasteries.
