Robert de Comines

Robert de Comines (also Robert Comines , Robert de Comyn ; † January 1069 ) was briefly Earl of Northumbria from 1068 to 1069 .

Robert probably comes from Comines in Flanders and joined the entourage of William the Conqueror . He was involved in the Norman conquest of England by William and took part in the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066 .

In 1068 Wilhelm appointed him as the successor to the deposed Gospatric Earl of Northumbria. The Northumbrians did not want a foreign ruler and conspired against him. He ignored the warnings of Bishop Æthelwin of Durham , who met him on his way to Durham.

Robert did not pay his soldiers, but allowed looting. The soldiers behaved as if they were in enemy territory and killed several residents.

Northumbrians rushed in from all over the place during the night and stormed the city at dawn on January 28th or 31st, 1069. The 700-strong Norman garrison was massacred to the last man. Robert de Comines holed up with the few surviving men in the bishop's house. When the attacks were unsuccessful, the house of the bishop and all defenders were burned down. Bishop Æthelwin had switched sides and marched with the army on York, resulting in The Harrying of the North , an established term for the sack of the north by King William.

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• Symeon of Durham , Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
• Symeon of Durham, History of the Church of Durham
• Stenton, Frank M., Anglo-Saxon England , 3rd ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1971.

Web links

• Symeon von Durham , Translator: J. Stevenson: The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham . In: Church Historians of England, volume III, part II . Seeley's. 1855. Retrieved October 3, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
2. ^ ^{A b} History of the Church of Durham

predecessor	Office	successor
Gospatric	Earl of Northumbria 1068-1069	Gospatric for the 2nd time