ROBERT OF JUMIEGES (d. c. 1070)

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ROBERT OF JUMIEGES (d. c. 1070) , archbishop of Canter-bury, was a Norman who became prior of St Ouen at Rouen and then abbot of Jumieges. A close friend of the future king of England,

Edward

EDWARD

the Confessor, he crossed over to England with

Edward

EDWARD

in 1042, and in 1044 became

bishop

of London. In English history Robert appears as the most trusted and the most prominent of the king's foreign friends, and as the leader of the party hostile to the influence of

Earl

EARL

Godwine: In 1051, although the chapter had already made an election, Edward appointed him archbishop of Canterbury. He seems to have been sent by the king on an errand to Duke William of Normandy, and on the return of Godwine from

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

in 1052 he fled in

great

GREAT

haste from England. He was outlawed and deposed, and he died at Jumieges about 1070. The treatment of Robert by the English was put forward by William the Conqueror as a pretext for invading England.
See Two Saxon Chronicles, edited by J. '

Earle

EARLE, JOHN (c. 16o1-1665)
EARLE, RALPH (1751-1801)

and C. Plummer (

Oxford

, 1892) ; and E. A. Freeman, History of the Norman Con-quest (

Oxford

, 1870-76).

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