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Charles W. David. Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
FOOTNOTES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ROBERT CURTHOSE
CHAPTER I. YOUTH
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER II. REBELLION AND EXILE
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER III. INDEPENDENT RULE, 1087–95
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER IV. THE CRUSADE
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER V. FAILURE TO GAIN THE ENGLISH CROWN
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER VI. THE LOSS OF NORMANDY
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER VII. LAST YEARS AND DEATH
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER VIII. ROBERT CURTHOSE IN LEGEND[1]
FOOTNOTES
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A. NOTE ON THE SOURCES
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX B. DE INIUSTA VEXATIONE WILLELMI EPISCOPI PRIMI[1]
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX C. ARNULF OF CHOCQUES, CHAPLAIN OF ROBERT CURTHOSE
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX D. ROBERT’S COMPANIONS ON THE CRUSADE
APPENDIX E. LAODICEA AND THE FIRST CRUSADE
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX F. THE BATTLE OF TINCHEBRAY[1]
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX G. THE ROBERT MEDALLION IN SUGER’S STAINED GLASS WINDOW AT SAINT-DENIS
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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Charles W. David
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Yet, with all these honors, Robert enjoyed no real power and exercised no active part in affairs of government. It was not the way of the Conqueror to part with any of his prerogatives prematurely; and if, for reasons of state, he bestowed formal honors upon his son, it was still his firm intention to remain sole master until the last within his own dominions. But for the young prince to continue thus in idleness, surrounded by a crowd of restless hangers-on of the younger nobility, was both costly and dangerous. Robert not unnaturally wished for an independent establishment and an income of his own;[7] but these the king was unwilling to provide. Robert, therefore, became dissatisfied; and the ambitious companions by whom he was surrounded were not slow to fan the embers of his growing discontent.[8] Apparently it was in the year 1078, or late in 1077,[9] that the unfortunate quarrel broke out which culminated in the siege of Gerberoy and a personal encounter between father and son upon the field of battle.
Upon the cause of the disagreement we are fortunate in having abundant testimony,[10] and it is possible to define the issue with some exactness. Prompted by the rash counsels of his time-serving companions, Robert went to the king and demanded that immediate charge of the government of Normandy and of Maine be committed forthwith into his hands. To Maine he based his claim upon his rights through Margaret, his deceased fiancée, to Normandy upon the twice repeated grant which his father had made to him, once before the Conquest, and afterwards at Bonneville, when the assembled barons had done him homage and pledged their fealty to him as their lord.[11]
