Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bluets</strong> 7<br />
bailey rampart 24<br />
Earl Robert eventually lost, threw himself on the King‘s mercy and was<br />
banished to his lands in Normandy, where he created havoc for everyone<br />
around him. 25<br />
<strong>The</strong> second son, Robert Bluet, was chancellor to both William I and<br />
William Rufus (William II); it was the Rufus who made him Bishop of<br />
Lincoln. 26 Bishop Robert later fell out of the King‘s favour. He died<br />
suddenly in 1123 27 . His son, Simon, was later Dean of Lincoln.<br />
Robert appears frequently in the records, especially the Close and the<br />
Curia Regis rolls.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only things known about the third son, Richard is that he lived at<br />
Helston in Cornwall and apparently had a daughter Sybil. 28<br />
24<br />
http://www.castleuk.net/castle_list_north/111/tickhillcastle.htm<br />
25<br />
See Vitalis [Vitalis, Oderic www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/oderic.html] and<br />
Carpenter [Carpenter, D (2003) <strong>The</strong> Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284<br />
OUP ISBN 0-19-522000-5] for details of this period<br />
26<br />
In 1093, succeeding Bishop Regimius [Crispin, MJ (1994) <strong>The</strong> Falaise Roll<br />
Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of<br />
England (with additions and corrections by Moriarty, GA) Genealogical Pub. Co Inc<br />
p84]<br />
27<br />
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle part 7 AD 1102 – 1154 record from AD 1123<br />
In this year was the King Henry, at Christmastide at Dunstable, and there came to<br />
him the ambassadors of the Earl of Anjou. And thence he went to Woodstock; and<br />
his bishops and his whole court with him. <strong>The</strong>n did it betide on a Wednesday, which<br />
was on the fourth day before the ides of January, that the king rode in his deerfold;<br />
the Bishop Roger of Salisbury on one side of him, and the Bishop Robert Bloet<br />
of Lincoln on the other side of him. And they rode there talking together. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
sank down the Bishop of Lincoln, and said to the king, "Lord king, I die." And the<br />
king alighted down from his horse, and lifted him betwixt his arms, and let men<br />
bear him home to his inn. <strong>The</strong>re he was soon dead; and they carried him to Lincoln<br />
with great worship, and buried him before the altar of St. Mary And the Bishop<br />
of Chester, whose name was Robert Pecceth buried him<br />
http://omacl.org/Anglo/part7.html<br />
28<br />
Blewett. M (2004) Blewetts document downloaded from<br />
bluett.com/blewett/EarlyEnglandResearch.pdf. ―born about 1146, at Helston,<br />
Cornwall, England‖ but the source for this has not been seen