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where he held virtually all of that
Earldom and was considered by some the Earl of Cornwall. While Robert held lands in twenty counties, the majority of his holdings in certain counties was as few as five manors. The overall worth of his estates was ÂŁ2100. He administered most of his southwestern
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Cornwall, although it appears uncertain whether he was formally created as such. The Complete Peerage, III, 428 states while he may have been considered the earl he was only known officially as
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and effected great slaughter against them. After that there is little mention of Robert who appears to have been an absentee landholder spending the majority of his time in
Normandy. Along with his brother Odo he participated in a revolt in 1088 against
430:"Count Robert did not call himself Earl of Cornwall enjoyed the power that in the following century belonged to the earls, and after them the dukes". See: Henderson, C. G. (1933) "Cornwall and her patron saint", In: his
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William, Duke of Normandy. Securing the southern border of Normandy was critical to Duke William and Robert was entrusted with this key county which guarded the borders of
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Robert's contribution to the success of the invasion was clearly regarded as highly significant by the
Conqueror, who awarded him a large share of the spoils; in total 797 manors at the time of
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Golding, 'Robert of Mortain', Anglo-Norman Studies XIII; Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1990, Ed. Marjorie Chibnall (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1991), p. 121
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Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount, ed. P.L. Hull, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Vol. V (1962), p. 1
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Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant
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occurs near Hastings, immediately before William ordered the building of a castle there, shortly before the
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but afterwards he was pardoned. Robert died in 1095, possibly on 9 December, and chose to be buried at the
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After Matilda de Montgomery's death in 1084 Robert secondly married Almodis. The couple had no children.
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The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times.
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On screen, Robert has been portrayed by Gordon Whiting in the two-part
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of 1086 was one of the greatest landholders in his half-brother's new
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