i. 216;

homage to Geoffrey the Bearded, 217; to Fulk Rechin, 223; seeks Fulk’s help in Maine, _ib._; sells the Cotentin to Henry, 4; wars with his brothers, 5, 6; pledges Normandy to Rufus, 3; crusade, _ib._; invades England, 9; war with Henry, 11; taken prisoner, 13; dies, 271

Robert Bloet, chancellor, justiciar and bishop of Lincoln, i. 22

Robert II., bishop of Lincoln, ii. 24

Robert I., bishop of Hereford, i. 370, 495

Robert of Melun, i. 481; bishop of Hereford, ii. 24

Robert of Bellême, count of Alençon etc., i. 6; banished, 10; sues for peace, 11; flies at Tinchebray, 13; captures Elias, 225; imprisoned, 233

Robert, count of Burgundy, i. 178

Robert, count of Dreux, i. 394

Robert, earl of Ferrers, ii. 139, 163

Robert, earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I., friend of William of Malmesbury, i. 92, 94; escorts Matilda over sea, 243; at Henry’s death, 270; dispute for precedence with Stephen, 274; joins Stephen, 283; defies him, 294; comes to England, 309; marches to Lincoln, 316, 317; receives Stephen’s surrender, 320; made prisoner, 327; exchanged, 329; goes to fetch Geoffrey, 330; returns, 332; besieges Wareham, _ib._; takes Portland and Lulworth, 333; meets his sister at Wallingford, 334; routs Stephen at Wilton, _ib._; builds a castle at Farringdon, 335; helps Geoffrey in Normandy, 338, 339; dies, 343, 344

Robert I., earl of Leicester and count of Meulan, i. 16, 54, 56

Robert II., earl of Leicester, joins Henry, i. 400; justiciar, 417; at council of Northampton, ii. 39; refuses the kiss of peace to Reginald of Cöln, 55, 56; dies, 61

Robert III., earl of Leicester, rebels, ii. 138, 142; goes to England, 148; made prisoner, 150; restored, 167; repulses Philip from Normandy, 363

Robert II., count of Meulan, ii. 138

Robert de Barri, ii. 101

Robert de Bruce, ii. 145

Robert, abbot of Caen, ii. 343, 344

Robert Fitz-Stephen, ii. 100; goes to Ireland, 101; blockaded in Carrick, 109; made prisoner, 111; released, 113

Robert of Marmion, i. 335

Robert de Montfort defeats Henry of Essex in ordeal, ii. 60; rebels, 138

Robert of Mowbray, ii. 155

Robert I. of Oilly, i. 41, 42, 331

Robert II. of Oilly founds Oseney priory, i. 43; gives up Oxford to the Empress, 322; death, 332

Robert Pulein, i. 43, 44

Robert Pullus, i. 483

Robert of Sablé, i. 343

Robert of Selby, chancellor of Sicily, i. 365

Robert of Sillé, ii. 137

Robert de Stuteville, ii. 145, 153, 160

Robert of Torigny or _de Monte_, ii. 194

Robert of Turnham, seneschal of Anjou, ii. 388, 389; of Poitou, 426; prisoner, 427

Rocamadour, ii. 74, 226, 227

Rochelle, La, ii. 428

Roches, _see_ William

Rochester, _see_ Ralf, Walter

Roderic O’Conor, king of Connaught, ii. 97; of Ireland, 98; treaty with Dermot,102; gathers a host against him, 104; blockades Dublin, 109, 110; routed, 110, 111; promises tribute to Henry II., 116; treaty, 182

Roger, king of Sicily, i. 365

Roger of Pont-l’Evêque, i. 354, 368; archbishop of York, 477; earlier career, 478, 479; accepts the royal customs, ii. 24; dispute with S. Thomas, 30; crowns young Henry, 72; appeals to the king, 78; dies, 285

Roger, chaplain to Henry I., chancellor, bishop of Salisbury and justiciar, i. 22; his administration, 25, 26; called the “Sword of Righteousness,” 26; his Church policy, 63; joins Stephen, 278; his family, 302; relations with Stephen and with the Empress, _ib._, 303; seized at Oxford, 303, 304; death, 310

Roger, earl of Clare, ii. 12, 16, 180

Roger, earl of Hereford, i. 429

Roger of Howden, i. 82; ii. 439

Roger de Lacy, ii. 400, 401; at Château-Gaillard, 411, 417, 418, 423

Roger of Montrésor, i. 151

Roger de Mortemer, ii. 299

Roger de Mowbray, ii. 139, 152, 160, 162, 163

Roger “the Poor,” chancellor, i. 302, 303

Rohesia, wife of Gilbert Becket, i. 50, 352

Roland, count of Maine, i. 203

Roland of Siena, cardinal, _see_ Alexander III.

Rome, relations of William and Lanfranc with, i. 15; trial of Stephen’s and Matilda’s claims at, 370; schism at, 498

Ronceray, i. 165 note 3{363}, 166; ii. 200

Roscilla of Loches, wife of Fulk the Red, i. 110

Rotrou, archbishop of Rouen, ii. 72, 81

Rouen surrenders to Geoffrey Plantagenet, i. 341, 342; besieged by Louis VII., ii. 164; palace, 196; young Henry buried at, 232; Richard’s heart buried at, 387; Arthur imprisoned at, 407; submits to Philip, 425. _See_ Rotrou, Walter

Rouergue, i. 454

Roumare, _see_ William

Roxburgh, i. 287

Rudolf of Burgundy, king of West-Frankland, i. 111, 115

Rufus, S., priory of, i. 476

Saher de Arcelles, i. 363

Sainfred, bishop of Le Mans, i. 204

Saintes granted to Fulk Nerra, i. 159, 173; taken by William VII. of Aquitaine, 215; regained and lost again, 216. _See_ Peter

Saintonge ceded to Geoffrey Martel, i. 174; granted to Fulk Rechin, 214; war of, 215, 216, 252, 253

Saint-Saëns, _see_ Elias

Saints, Old-English, revived veneration for, i. 33, 80

Saladin tithe, ii. 249

Salisbury, i. 32–33. _See_ Herbert, Hubert, Jocelyn, John, Patrick, William

Saltwood, ii. 79

Sancho VI., king of Navarre, submits to Henry II.’s arbitration,