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ROBERT BLOET (d. 1123)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 75 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT BLOET (d. 1123)  ,
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English bishop, was chancellor to William I. and Rufus . From the latter he received the see of Lincoln (1093) in succession to Remigius . His private character was indifferent; but he administered his see with skill and prudence, built largely, and kept a magnificent household, which served as a training-school even for the sons of nobles . Bloet was active in assisting Henry I. during the
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rebellion of 1102, and became that monarch's justiciar . Latterly, however, he fell out of favour, and, although he had been very rich, was impoverished by the fines which the king extorted from him . Perhaps his
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wealth was his chief offence in the king's eyes; for he was in attendance on Henry when seized with his last illness . He was the
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patron of the chronicler Henry of Hunting-don, whom he advanced to an archdeaconry . Henry of Huntingdon and W . Malmesbury (De Gestis Pontificum) are
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original authorities . See E . A . Freeman's William Rufus;
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Sir James Ramsay, The
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Foundations of England, vol. ii .

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