Life
Rodolf was the son of Eperleng, a rich owner of several mills at Vaudreuil, and of his wife Sprota, who by William I, Duke of Normandy had been mother of Richard I of Normandy, making Rodolf the Duke's half-brother.
When Richard died in 996, Rodulf took effective power during the minority of his nephew, Richard II of Normandy, alongside the boy's mother, Gunnor.
According to William of Jumièges he had to quell dual rebellions in 996, of peasants and nobility; against the former he cut off feet and hands. He arrested the chief aristocratic rebel Guillaume, comte d'Exmes.
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