Rodulf of Ivry (Rodolf, Ralph, Raoul, comte d'Ivry) (died c. 1015)[1] was a Norman noble, and regent of Normandy during the minority of Richard II.
According to William of Jumièges, Rudolf had to quell dual rebellions in 996, of peasants and nobility; against the former he cut off feet and hands.
[9] Contemporary sources, and Dudon de Saint-Quentin, speak only of Rodulf as "count", never "of Ivry"; this is found only in later writers.
Historians now consider this erroneous, following the later Robert de Torigni, who makes Rodulf, the comte d'Ivry.
[citation needed] In strategic terms, Ivry was on the boundary of the duchy of Normandy, by an important crossroads on a Roman road, by the valley of the river Eure.