Gesta Normannorum Ducum
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Gesta Normannorum Ducum is a chronicle originally created by the monk William of Jumièges just before 1060. In 1070 William I had William of Jumièges extend the work to detail his rights to the throne
William of Jumièges offering his Gesta Normannorum Ducum to William the Conqueror
Robert Curthose
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Robert Curthose was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and Duke of Normandy as Robert II from 1087 to 1106.
Roman west gate of Pevensey Castle; the main land entrance
Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, site of the 1091 siege
Norman naval forces on the Bayeux tapestry
The village of Tinchebray in Normandy in 2008; the site of the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106