Ilban Richese

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Count Ilban Richese is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is the head of House Richese and the maternal grandfather of Duke Leto Atreides. Although being a Harkonnen ally, he is a peace loving man, who's personality differs from the Harkonnen style.

Ilban was presumably born during the later half of the 101:th century after the foundation of the Spacing Guild, and was married to Edwina Corrino, daughter of the Padishah Emperor Elrood Corrino IX and his bound concubine, Yvette Hagal, for political reasons in the year 10,090 A.G. Together they had 11 children, 6 sons and 5 daughters, of which one was Helena Richese, who would later marry to Duke Paulus Atreides.