Fought a long and bloody war with the Vikings to retain his inheritance162

Elsewhere it says he aided and abetted the Vikings against the English, even against the wishes of the Pope159

“Of Denmark”282

Gonnor and Richard seem to have been a love match; he had many children with her, eben when married to other women. They married later, probably to legitimize the children they had together. She was an important figure at the court of her son Richard II and was celebrated in the satirical poem Moriuht by Walter of Rouen.159