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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1040.
• (Geschiedenis) .Bron 1

  Robert van Mortain (ca. 1040 - 1090/1095) was via zijn moeder een halfbroer van Willem de Veroveraar en een van de belangrijke Normandische aanvoerders.
  Biografie
  
  Robert was een zoon van graaf Herluinus van Conteville en van Herleva.
  
  Rond 1060 ontving Robert het graafschap Mortain toen de regerende graaf werd verbannen en zijn titel verloor. Kort daarna erfde hij ook de familiegoederen van zijn vader, rond Conteville. Robert had ook bezittingen in de Cotentin. In 1066 nam hij deel aan de beraadslagingen voor de inval in Engeland. Hij leverde 120 schepen en was een van de aanvoerders in de slag bij Hastings. Als beloning ontving hij van Willem 549 "manors" verspreid over Engeland, en het bestuur over het strategische district Pevensey.
  
  In 1069 versloeg Robert samen met Robert I van Eu de Denen die York belegerden. Robert ontving in 1072 nog een keer 248 manors en de kastelen van Launceston (Cornwall) en Trematon in Cornwall. Robert was meerdere malen actief als rechter in zaken van de hoge adel en geestelijkheid. Aan het sterfbed van Willem de Veroveraar in 1087 pleitte hij voor de vrijlating van zijn broer Odo van Bayeux, die sinds 1082 gevangen zat. Onder invloed van Odo nam hij deel aan de opstand van 1088 tegen koning Willem II van Engeland. Robert verdedigde zijn kasteel van Pevensey gedurende zes weken tegen een beleg door de koning (waarbij Willem van Warenne dodelijk werd gewond) maar moest uiteindelijk opgeven. Robert werd door Willem begenadigd en behield zijn bezittingen en functies.
  
  Volgens bronnen uit zijn tijd was Robert een zware en trage man, maar een dappere aanvoerder waarvan geen wreedheden, misdaden of huiselijke problemen bekend waren. Robert en zijn eerste vrouw werden begraven in de abdij van Grestain, die zijn vader had gesticht.

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  Robert, Count of Mortain (c.?1031–1090) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother of William I of England. He was one of the known participants at the Battle of Hastings and the time of the Domesday Book he was one of the greatest landholders in England.
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  Life
  
  Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and brother of Odo of Bayeux.[1] Robert was born c.?1031 in Normandy, a half-brother of William the Conqueror.[2] and was probably not more than a year or so younger than his brother Odo, born c.?1030.[1][3] About 1035, Herluin, as Vicomte of Conteville, along with his wife Herleva and Robert founded Grestain Abbey.[4]
  Count of Mortain
  
  In c.?1049 his brother Duke William made him Count of Mortain,[5] in place of William Warlenc, who had been banished by Duke William; according to Orderic Vitalis, on a single word.[6] William Warlenc was a grandson of Duke Richard I[7] and therefore a cousin once removed to William, Duke of Normandy.[7] Securing the southern border of Normandy was critical to Duke William and Robert was entrusted with this key county which guarded the borders of Brittany and Bellême.[8]
  Conquest of England
  
  In early 1066, Robert was present at both the first council, that of William's inner circle, and the second larger council held to discuss the Duke's planned conquest of England. Robert agreed to provide 120 ships to the invasion fleet,[9] which was more than any other of William's magnates.[10] Robert was one of those few known to have been at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.[11] He is pictured at a dinner at Pevensey on the Bayeux Tapestry, seated with his brothers William and Odo on the day of the landing in England.[10] When granting the monastery of St Michael's Mount to the Norman monastery on the Mont Saint-Michel Robert recorded that he had fought at the Battle of Hastings under the banner of St Michel (habens in bello Sancti Michaelis vexillum).[12][13]
  Lands granted by William the Conqueror
  
  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 Domesday.[14] However the greatest concentration of his honors lay in Cornwall where he held virtually all of that county and was considered by some the Earl of Cornwall.[a][14] 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 £2100.[15] He administered most of his southwestern holdings from Launceston, Cornwall, and Montacute in Somerset.[15] The holding of single greatest importance, however, was the rape of Pevensey (east Sussex) which protected one of the more vulnerable parts of the south coast of England.[15]
  Later life
  
  In 1069, when together with Robert of Eu, he led an army against a force of Danes in Lindsay and affected great slaughter against them.[14] After that there is little mention of Robert who appears to have been an absentee landholder spending the majority of his time in Normandy.[16] Along with his brother Odo he participated in a revolt in 1088 against William II but afterwards he was pardoned.[14] On 8 December 1090 Robert died and chose to be buried at the Abbey of Grestain,[14] near his father and next to his first wife Matilda.[16]
  Character
  
  He was described by William of Malmesbury in his Gesta Regum as a man of stupid dull disposition (crassi et hebetis ingenii).[17] But William the Conqueror considered him one of his greatest supporters and trusted him with the important county of Mortain. This was a trust he would hardly place in someone who was in any way incompetent.[17] Further clues to his character are found in the Vita of Vitalis of Savigny, a very wise monk who Robert sought out as his chaplain.[17] Once incident tells of Robert beating his wife and Vital intervening, threatened to end the marriage if Robert did not repent.[18] In still another entry Vital tells of his leaving Robert's service abruptly and after being escorted back to him, Robert begged for Vital's pardon for his actions.[18] Overall, Robert was proficient in every duty William assigned him, he was a religious man yet ill-tempered enough to beat his wife, but not himself known as a man of great wisdom.

• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1095, hij was toen 55 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Harlevin de Conteville en Herleva Arlette
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 9 november 2012.

Gezin van Robert van Mortain

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Mathilde van Montgomery.

Zij zijn getrouwd voor 1066.Bron 2

Kind(eren):

1. Agnes van Mortain  
2. Denise van Mortain  
3. Robert van Mortain  
4. Willem van Mortain  
5. Emma van Mortain  1058-1080 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Almodis.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 1085.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Robert van Mortain  

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