Robert Bloet

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Robert Bloet (sometimes Robert Bloett[1]) (died 1123), was a medieval English bishop and the fifth Lord Chancellor of England.

Life

Bloet was related in some manner to Hugh III, the predecessor of Odo of Bayeux as Bishop of Bayeux.[2] Another relative was Richard, who was abbot of St Albans Abbey.[3] He was chancellor to King William Rufus by January 1091.[4] Rufus named him to the see of Lincoln in March 1093 after the death of Remigius de Fécamp.[5] He was consecrated at Hastings not long before 22 February 1094, probably on 12 February the day after the dedication of the church at Battle Abbey.[6] By 19 March 1094 he had been replaced as chancellor by William Giffard.[4] Prior to Bloet's consecration, the Archbishop of York, Thomas of Bayeux, who had previously had a claim to supervise the see of Lincoln, tried to prevent the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm's consecrating Bloet. Thomas persuaded Bloet to refuse to profess obedience to Anselm, but when King William intervened on Anselm's side, Bloet made the profession to Anselm.[7]

Bloet was one of the chief administrative officers of the kingdom under William II, often associated with with Ranulf Flambard, Urse d'Abetot, and Haimo the dapifer.[8] As a bishop, he moved the newly founded monastery of Stow to Eynsham instead.[1] This church was considered a proprietary church and the bishops of Lincoln retained the right to appoint the abbot and installing the abbot in office.[9] The monks of Stow had been established by his predecessor.[10]

Bloet supported King Henry I of England during the rebellion of 1102,[citation needed] and continued to be an advisor to the king.[11] When the new see at Ely was established in 1109, this was carved out of Bloet's diocese, and he was compensated for the loss by a grant of land.[12] He was one of the councilors who persuaded Henry to appoint William of Corbeil to the archbishopric of Canterbury in 1123.[13] During the reign of Henry, Bloet accepted the supervision of St Albans abbey, ruled by his relative Richard, when Richard objected to the harshness of the archbishop of Canterbury and switched the abbey's obedience to Lincoln instead.[14] Bloet continued to be a benefactor to Albans throughout his episcopate.[15]

Bloet was a married bishop,[16] and he appointed his son Simon as Dean of Lincoln. It was in Bloet's household that the medieval historian Henry of Huntingdon was brought up.[17][16] He died on 10 January 1123 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire and was buried at Lincoln.[6] Henry of Huntingdon records that noblemen sent their children to be educated at Bloet's household, whether or not they were destined for a career in the church. King Henry's illigitimate son Robert of Gloucester was educated in Bloet's care.[18] Gilbert of Sempringham, who founded the Gilbertine Order, was also educated in Bloet's household, entering it before Bloet's death and continuing there under Bloet's sucessor Alexander of Lincoln.[19]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Knowles Monastic Order p. 132
  2. ^ Spear "School of Caen Revisited" Haskins Society Journal p. 65
  3. ^ Knowles Monastic Order p. 187
  4. ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 83
  5. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 255
  6. ^ a b Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 3: Lincoln: Bishops
  7. ^ Barlow English Church 1066-1154 pp. 38-39
  8. ^ West Justiciarship in England p. 11
  9. ^ Knowles Monastic Order p. 631
  10. ^ Burton Monastic and Religious Orders p. 230
  11. ^ West Justiciarship in England p. 15
  12. ^ Brett English Church p. 51
  13. ^ West Justiciarship in England p. 17
  14. ^ Brett English Church p. 132
  15. ^ Brett English Church p. 137
  16. ^ a b Partner "Henry of Huntingdon" Church History p. 471
  17. ^ Williams English and the Norman Conquest p. 177
  18. ^ Brett English Church pp. 174-175
  19. ^ Brett English Church p. 184

References

  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066-1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
  • Brett, M. (1975). The English Church under Henry I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821861-3.
  • Burton, Janet (1994). Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain: 1000-1300. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37797-8.
  • Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Greenway, Diana E. (1977). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 3: Lincoln: Bishops. Institute of Historical Research. Accessed on 28 October 2007
  • Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.
  • Partner, Nancy (1973). "Henry of Huntingdon: Clerical Celibacy and the Writing of History". Church History. 42 (4): 467–475. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Spear, David S. (1993). Patterson, Robert B. (ed.). The School of Caen Revisited. Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History. Vol. 4 (1992). Woodbridge, UK: Boydell. pp. 97–108. ISBN 0-85115-333-X.
  • West, Francis (1966). The Justiciarship in England 1066-1232. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Williams, Ann (2000). The English and the Norman Conquest. Ipswich: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-708-4.
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Chancellor
1092–1093 		Succeeded by
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Lincoln
1093–1123 		Succeeded by

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