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ROBERT OF BELESME (fl. moo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT OF See also:BELESME (fl. moo)  , See also:earl of See also:Shrewsbury . From his See also:mother Mabel Talvas he inherited the See also:fief of See also:Belesme, and from his See also:father, the Conqueror's See also:companion, that of Shrews-See also:bury . Both were See also:march-fiefs, the one guarding See also:Normandy from See also:Maine, and the other See also:England from the Welsh; consequently their See also:lord was peculiarly powerful and See also:independent . See also:Robert is the typical feudal See also:noble of the See also:time, circumspect and politic, persuasive and eloquent, impetuous and daring in See also:battle, and an able military engineer; in See also:person, tall and strong; greedy for See also:land, an oppressor of the weak, a systematic See also:rebel and traitor, and savagely cruel . He first appears as a supporter of Robert's See also:rebellion against the Conqueror (1077); then as an See also:accomplice in the See also:English See also:conspiracy of ro88 against See also:Rufus . Later he served Rufus in Normandy, and was allowed to succeed his See also:brother See also:Hugh in the earldom of Shrewsbury (1098) . But at the height of his See also:power, he revolted against See also:Henry I . (11o2) . He was banished and deprived of his English See also:estate; for sometime after he remained at large in Normandy, defying the authority of Robert and Henry alike . He betrayed Robert's cause at Tinchebrai; but in 1112 was imprisoned for See also:life by Henry I . See E . A .

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Freeman's See also:William Rufus and his See also:Norman See also:Conquest, vol. iv.; and J . M . See also:Lappenberg's See also:History of England under the Norman See also:Kings, trans . B . See also:Thorpe ([857) .

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