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

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