Captured Toledo from the Moors 1085. Son in law became Henry of Burgundy, Count of Porrtugal in 1093. Muslims called Yusuf ibn Tashfin from Africa to fight Alfonso, defeated in 1086 at Zallaka. Yusuf returned to Africian empire in Morocco but died, dissolving empire. Alfonso assumed Christian conquest with help from "El Cid" Moslem word for master.
Nicknamed the Brave, was King of León from 1065 to 1109 and King of Castile since 1072 after his brother's death. As he was the first Alfonso to be King of Castile, he is sometimes referred to as Alfonso I of Castile. In 1077, he proclaimed himself "Emperor of All Spain". Much romance has gathered around his name.
As the second and favorite son of King Ferdinand I of Castile and Princess Sancha of León, Alfonso was alloted León, while Castile was given to his eldest brother Sancho, and Galicia to his youngest brother Garcia. Sancho was assassinated in 1072. Garcia was dethroned and imprisoned for life the following year.
In the cantar de gesta The Lay of the Cid, he plays the part attributed by medieval poets to the greatest kings, and to Charlemagne himself. He is alternately the oppressor and the victim of heroic and self-willed nobles — the idealized types of the patrons for whom the jongleurs and troubadours sang. He is the hero of a cantar de gesta which, like all but a very few of the early Spanish songs, like the cantar of Bernardo del Carpio and the Infantes of Lara, exists now only in the fragments incorporated in the chronicle of Alfonso the Wise or in ballad form.
His flight from the monastery of Sahagun, where his brother Sancho endeavoured to imprison him, his chivalrous friendship for his host Almamun of Toledo, caballero aunque moro, "a knight although a Moor", the passionate loyalty of his vassal, Pero (Pedro) Ansúrez, and his brotherly love for his sister Urraca of Zamora, may owe something to the poet who took him as a hero.
They are the answer to the poet of the nobles who represented the king as having submitted to taking a degrading oath at the hands of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) to deny intervention in his brother's death in the church of Santa Gadea at Burgos, and as having then persecuted the brave man who defied him.
When every allowance is made, Alfonso VI stands out as a strong man fighting as a king whose interest was law and order, and who was the leader of the nation in the reconquest. He impressed himself on the Arabs as a very fierce and astute enemy, but as a keeper of his word. A story of Muslim origin, which is probably no more historical than the oath of Santa Gadea, tells of how he allowed himself to be tricked by Ibn Ammar, the favourite of Al Mutamid, the King of Seville. They played chess for an extremely beautiful table and set of men, belonging to Ibn Ammar. Table and men were to go to the king if he won. If Ibn Ammar gained he was to name the stake. The latter did win and demanded that the Christian king should spare Seville. Alfonso kept his word.
Whatever truth may lie behind the romantic tales of Christian and Muslim, we know that Alfonso represented, in a remarkable way, the two great influences then shaping the character and civilization of Spain.
Alfonso was defeated on October 23, 1086, at the battle of Zallaqa, at the hands of Yusuf ibn Tashfin, and Abbad III al-Mu'tamid, and was severely wounded in the leg.
Alfonso married at least five times and had two mistresses and a fiancée. His first wife was Agnes, daughter of William VIII of Aquitaine. They married in 1069 and divorced due to consanguinity later. They had no children. His second wife, who he married in 1081, was Constance of Burgundy, the mother of their daughter Urraca of Castile. Prior to his marriage with Constance, he was betrothed to Agatha, one of the daughters of William I of England. In 1093, he married Bertha, hypothesized to have been daughter of William I, Count Palatine of Burgundy. Following her death, he married an Isabel (or, it has been suggested, two successive Isabels). His final wife was Beatrice, of unknown origin. By mistress Jimena Muñoz, speculated to have been daughter of Munio Gonzalez, Count of Asturias or of an otherwise obscure Munio Muñoz, he had two illegitimate daughters, Elvira of Castile and Teresa of Leon.
At the instigation, it is said, of his wife Constance, he brought the Cistercian Order into Spain, established them in Sahagun, chose a French Cistercian, Bernard, as the first Archbishop of Toledo after the reconquest on May 25, 1085. He married his illegitimate daughters, Urraca of Castile and Teresa of Leon, to French princes, and in every way forwarded the spread of French influence — then the greatest civilizing force in Europe. He also drew Spain nearer to the Papacy. It was Alfonso's decision which established the Roman ritual in place of the old missal of Saint Isidore — the Mozarabic rite.
On the other hand he was very open to Arabic influence. He protected the Muslims among his subjects and struck coins with inscriptions in Arabic letters. After the death of Constance, he perhaps married, and certainly lived with, Zaida, said to have been a daughter-in-law of Al Mutamid, the Muslim King of Seville. She was mother of his illegitimate son, Sancho, who would be named his father's heir. It is unclear if Zaida, baptised under the name of Isabel, is identical with Alfonso's later wife, Queen Isabel, the mother by Alfonso of two daughters, Elvira Alfonso, (who married Roger II of Sicily) and, Sancha, (wife of Rodrigo Gonzalez de Lara).
Sancho, Alfonso's designated successor, was slain in the Battle of Ucles in 1108.
Daughters Elvira:
Elvira of Castile (before 1082? - 1151) was the illegitimate daughter of the great Alfonso VI of Castile, by his mistress Jimena Muñoz. She married, firstly, Raymond IV of Toulouse in 1094, and secondly, before 1117, Fernando Fernández.
Jimena Muñoz's name sometimes appears as Jimena Nuñez, because of a mistaken assumption that the two names are identical. She has been called sister of Rodrigo Muñoz, founder of the Guzman, but this is chronologically unlikely, and completely unsupported.
Elvira should not be confused with her legitimate half-sister Elvira Alfonso, wife of Roger II, King of Sicily 1130-1154.
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Elvira of Castile was the daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile by his fourth queen, Isabel (perhaps identical to the Moslem convert Zaida, baptized as Isabel, who had been Alfonso's mistress). Elvira married Roger II of Sicily in 1117, but only infrequently saw him thereafter, for he was much preoccupied with rebellions on the peninsula and she stayed with her children in Palermo the capital. Despite this, the marriage was undoubtedly happy, for she bore Roger five sons before she died in 1135. Her death put Roger in such a deep depression that he was thought dead, he was so reclusive.
Their sons were:
Roger (died 12 May 1148), heir, Duke of Apulia (from 1135), possibly also Count of Lecce
Tancred (died 1138), Prince of Bari (from 1135)
Alfonso (died 1144), Prince of Capua (from 1135) and Duke of Naples
William (died 7 May 1166), his successor, Duke of Apulia (from 1148)
Henry, died in infancy
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Slew Thurbrand and was then murdered by Thurbrand's son Karl
Earl of East Anglia 1053. East Anglia, Algar, Earl of Also Earl of Mercia, 1057-62. Son of Countess Godiva and Earl Leofric. Married Countess Aelfeva. Father of rebel earls Edwin and Morcar. Earl of East Anglia, 1051-52 and 1053-57; outlawed 1055 and 1058, but pardoned each time.
He succeeded to his father's title and responsibilities on the latter's death in 1057. Ælfgar gained from the exile of Earl Godwin of Wessex and his sons in 1051. He was given the Earldom of East Anglia, which had been that of Harold, son of Godwin. Earl Godwin and King Edward were reconciled the following year, so Harold was restored to his earldom - but not for long. At Easter 1053 Godwin died, so Harold became Earl of Wessex, and the earldom of East Anglia returned to Ælfgar.[The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.]
Ælfgar was succeeded as Earl of Mercia by his eldest son, Edwin. His second son, Morcar was elected Earl of Northumbria when Tostig Godwinson was ejected by the Northumbrians.
His daughter, Edith (or Aldgyth) married firstly the Welsh prince Gruffyd (kd. 1063), and secondly 1066 Harold Godwinson (kd 1066 Hastings). She had issue by both husbands.
~~~~Ælfgar (died 1062) was son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, possibly by his well-known wife Godgifu (Godiva), although more probably by an earlier marriage. He succeeded to his father's title and responsibilities on the latter's death in 1057.
Ælfgar gained from the exile of Earl Godwin of Wessex and his sons in 1051. He was given the Earldom of East Anglia, which had been that of Harold, son of Godwin. Earl Godwin and King Edward were reconciled the following year, so Harold was restored to his earldom - but not for long. At Easter 1053 Godwin died, so Harold became Earl of Wessex, and the earldom of East Anglia returned to Ælfgar.[1]
Ælfgar seems to have learned from the tactics Godwin used to put pressure on King Edward. When he was himself exiled in 1055, he raised a fleet of 18 ships in Ireland and then turned to Wales, where King Gruffydd agreed to join forces with him against King Edward. Two miles from Hereford they clashed with the army of Earl Ralph of Herefordshire on 24 October. The earl was the first to take flight, and so Gruyffdd and Ælfgar pursued them, killing and wounding as they went, and took savage reprisals on Hereford. They despoiled and burnt the town, killing many of its citizens. King Edward ordered an army mustered and put Earl Harold in charge of it. This was a more formidable opposition. Ælfgar and Gruyffdd fled to South Wales. However the issue was resolved by diplomacy and Earl Ælfgar was reinstated.[2]
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Unable to read, extremely pious, had mental and physical deformities (per Asser)
First to understand to build stone fortresses against the Vikings because the Vikings liked easy prey, not stone fortresses
First to develop the borough (later developed into towns) and the fyrd, peasant militia always prepared
?? Asser wrote the Saxon Chronicles
853 Alfred sent to live with Pope Leo IV in Rome, to be consecrated as a future king and most likely groomed for religion.
854 Accompanied his father on his pilgrimage to Rome, became fascinated by Frankish ways and Charlemagne, adopted them in his own life.
868 Battle against Danes in Mercia alongside Aethelred
871 Jan 8th battle at Berkshire Hills (now Reading)
871 Aethelred died, leaving Alfred in control of Wessex
877 Guthrum attacked Wessex by marching through to Dorsetshire. Alfred offered Danegelds which they accepted and withdrew to attack Exeter and was able to hold against Alfred. The Viking fleet of one hundred and twenty ships and five thousand men on its way to fortify Guthrum was lost, losing their supply line. Alfred surrounded Exeter and forced their surrender.
878 Guthrum returned again Jan 12th for a surprise winter attack on Alfred at his Chippenham estate, destroying most of Alfred's army. The remaining army fled to France, Alfred fled to Athelney in Somerset. Here he planned his counter attack and where the legend of him burning the cakes originated. He came out of seclusion after Easter to gather support with fyrds at "Edgar's Stone" and proceeded to confront Guthrum at Ethandun, now Edington. Alfred was victorious using the shields as the Roman's did, and spared Guthrum's life again, splitting England in two, Saxons to the south, Vikings to the north.
Legend of the cake burning: Alfred was hiding in the home of a cowherd. The wife was baking some bread as Alfred was making some arrows for his bow. Unfortunately the bread started to burn, but Alfred was so engrossed in what he was doing, he let them burn, much to the anger of the wife, who castigated him for his stupidity and thoughtlessness, never knowing he was the king. This story possibly never happened but a distortion of other events by the 12th century chronicle of St Neot's.
882 Norse men, starving at home, invaded England again by the Thames River, only to be met by a prepared Alfred.
886 Daneslaw established in a peace treaty between Alfred and Guthrum. The Daneslaw terriitory was declared 'The Danelaw" - "up the Thames, and then up the Lea and along the Lea to its source, then straight to Bedford, and then up the Ouse to Watling Street.'
887 Alfred learned Latin
891 Guthrum died and the treaty with Alfred was considered to be over, yet his son, Guthrum II honoured it.
Yngvi and his brother ruled the Swedes together after their father's death. Yngvi was a beloved, generous, handsome and great warrior, while Alf was harsh, silent and unfriendly, with an agreeable, frisky and gay wife, Bera. After a major viking expedition and during the following celebration, Yngvi and Bera remained up talking while Alf went to bed, ordereing Bera not to wake him when she came to bed. She had repeatedly stated that the woman Yngvi picked would be a happy one, and Alf became jealous. Yngvi's guards did not notice Alf entering the hall with a knife, where he stabbed Yngvi, who managed to kill Alf before he died. They were both buried under mounds in Fyrisvold.
Upon their death, Alf's son Hugleik ruled, reputed as not being a warrior and being quite greedy. Two sea king brothers, Hake and Hagbard, invaded Sweden and killed Hugleik, Hake ruled the Swedes.
Meanwhile, Yngvi's sons, Jorund and Eric, invaded Denmark, taking and hanging
the king, Gudlog.at Stromones. They went after Hake next, who killed Eric
and cut the brother's banner in two at a great battle on the Fyrisvoid near
Uppsala, Hake was wounded enough to have set his boat free with all his men
and burned it, falling upon the flames to die. Jorund becmae the king at
Uppsala.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 24-27
Yngvi and Alf were two legendary Swedish kings of the House of Yngling.
According to Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and Ynglinga saga, Yngvi and Alf were the sons of Alrik.
Snorri Sturluson relates that Yngvi was an accomplished king: a great warrior who always won his battles, the master of all exercises, generous, happy and sociable. He was both loved and famous.
Alf was unsociable and harsh and stayed at home instead of pillaging in other countries. His mother was Dageid, the daughter of king Dag the Great from whom is descended the Dagling family. Alf was married to Bera who was happy and alert and a very lovable woman.
One day in the autumn, Yngvi returned to Uppsala from a very successful viking expedition which had rendered him famous. He used to spend time at the drinking table until late in the night, like Bera, and they found it pleasant to talk to each other. Alf, however, preferred to go to bed early and he started to tell her to go to bed early as well so that she did not wake him. Then Bera used to answer that Yngvi was much better for a woman than Alf, an answer that was getting on Alf's nerves.
One evening, the jealous Alf entered the hall and saw Yngvi and Bera converse on the high seat. Yngvi had a short sword in his lap and the other guests were too drunk to see that Alf had arrived. From under his cloak Alf drew a sword and pierced Yngvi. Yngvi, mortally wounded, got up, drew his own short sword and slew Alf. They were buried in two mounds on the Fyrisvellir (Fyris Wolds). Alf was succeeded by his son Hugleik.
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Alfonso VII of Leon (March 1, 1104/5 – August 21, 1157), nicknamed the Emperor, became the king of Leon, Galicia and Castile in 1126. He was the son of Urraca of Castile and Count Raymond of Burgundy.
Alfonso was a dignified and somewhat enigmatic figure. A vague tradition had always assigned the title of emperor to the sovereign who held León. Sancho the Great considered it the imperiale culmen and minted coins with the inscription Imperator Totius Hispaniae after being crowned in Leon. This sovereign was considered the most direct representative of the Visigoth kings who were themselves the representatives of the Roman empire. But though given in charters, and claimed by Alfonso VI of Leon and Alfonso I of Aragon, the title had been little more than a flourish of rhetoric.
In November 1128, he married Berenguela of Barcelona, daughter of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona. She died in 1149. Their children were:
Sancho III of Castile (1134-1158)
Ferdinand II of Leon (1137-1188)
Sancha (1137-1179), married Sancho VI of Navarre
Constanza of Castile (1141-1160), married Louis VII of France
In 1152, Alfonso married Richeza of Poland, the daughter of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland. They had a daughter, Sancha (1155-1208), the wife of Alfonso II of Aragon.
By his mistress, an Asturian noblewoman named Guntroda, he had an illegitimate daughter, Urraca, who married García VI of Navarre.
In Leon, Alfonso VII was crowned "Emperor of All Spain" in 1135 after the death of Alfonso I. The weakness of Aragon enabled him to make his superiority effective, although Afonso I of Portugal never recognised him as liege, thereby affirming the new kingdom's independence. He appears to have striven for the formation of a national unity which Spain had never possessed since the fall of the Visigoth kingdom. The elements he had to deal with could not be welded together.
Alfonso was at once a patron of the church and a protector, if not a supporter of, the Muslims, who formed a large part of his subjects. His reign ended in an unsuccessful campaign against the rising power of the Almohades. Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the pass of Muradel in the Sierra Morena, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to be -- "king of the men of the two religions."
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Alfonso II of Aragon (Alfons I of Provence and Barcelona, 1152-1196), known as the Chaste or the Troubadour was king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1162 to 1196. He was the son of Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Petronila of Aragon.
Born Ramon Berenguer, he ascended the united thrones of Aragon (1164) and Barcelona (1162) as Alfonso, changing his name in deference to the Aragonese, to honor King Alfonso I of Aragon. He was the first ruler to be both king of Aragon and count of Barcelona. He was also Count of Provence from 1181 to 1185.
For most of his reign he was allied with King Alfonso VIII of Castile, both against Navarre and against the Moorish taifa kingdoms of the south. In his Reconquista effort Alfonso pushed as far as Teruel, conquering this important stronghold on the road to Valencia in 1171. The same year saw him capturing Caspe.
Apart from common interests, kings of Aragon and Castile were united by a formal bond of vassalage the former owed to the latter. Besides, on January 18, 1174 in Saragossa Alfonso married infanta Sancha of Castile, sister of the Castilean king.
Another milestone in this alliance was a formal treaty the two kings concluded at Cazorla in 1179, delineating zones of conquest in the south along the watershed of rivers Júcar and Segura. Southern areas of Valencia including Denia were thus secured to Aragon.
During his reign Catalonian influence north of the Pyrenees reached its zenith. His realms incorporated not only Provence, but also the counties of Cerdanya and Roussillon (inherited in 1172). Béarn and Bigorre paid hommage to him in 1187. Alfonso's involvement in the affairs of Languedoc, which would cost the life of his successor, Peter II of Aragon, for the moment proved highly beneficial, strengthening Catalonian trade and stimulating emigration from the north to colonise the newly reconquered lands in Aragon.
King Alfonso died in 1196. He was a noted poet of his time and a close friend of King Richard the Lionheart.
Alpfonso II provided the first land grant to the Cistercian monks on the banks of the Ebro River in the Aragon region, which would become the site of the first Cistercian monastery in this region. Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda was founded in the year 1202 and utilized some of the first hydrological technology in the region for harnessing water power and river diversion for the purpose of building central heating.
Alfonso III (c.848–20 December 910), called the Great, was the king of Asturias from 866 until his death. He was the son and successor of Ordoño I.
Little is known about Alfonso except the bare facts of his reign and of his comparative success in consolidating the kingdom henceforth known as "of Galicia" or "of Oviedo", during the weakness of the Omayyad princes of Cordoba. He fought against and gained numerous victories over the Muslims of al-Andalus, nonetheless his kingdom was always inferior to that of the Cordobans, and he was thus forced to pay them tribute.
He defeated a Basque rebellion in 867 and, much later, a Galician one as well. He conquered Oporto and Coimbra in 868 and 878 respectively.
He ordered the creation of three chronicles in which was presented the theory that the kingdom of Asturias was the rightful successor of the old Visigothic kingdom. He also a patron of the arts, like his grandfather before him. He built the church of Santo Adriano de Tuñón.
Alfonso died in Zamora, probably in 910. Upon his death his kingdom was divided among his three sons by Jimena. The eldest son, García, became king of León but died shortly after in 914 without an heir. The second son, Ordoño, reigned in Galicia from 910 and León after García's death. The youngest son, Fruela, received Asturias with Oviedo as his capital. When Ordoño died his children were too young to ascend and the territory of Alfonso was once again united under Fruela, but the latter did not enjoy his joint monarchy for long as he died the next year. Ordoño's eldest son, Alfonso, succeeded him.
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Alberada or Aubrey of Buonalbergo (Latin: Alverada, French: Aubrée) (c.1033–July 1122) was the first wife of Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia (1059–1085), whom she married in 1051 or 1052, when he was still just a robber baron in Calabria.
Alberada was the daughter of Lord Girard of Buonalbergo, who wanted the support of the rising Guiscard at that moment. As her dowry, she brought Guiscard two hundred knights. She bore Guiscard two children: a daughter, Emma, mother of Tancred, Prince of Galilee, and a son, Prince Bohemond I of Antioch. In 1058, after Pope Nicholas II strengthened existing canon law against consanguinity and on that basis, Guiscard repudiated Alberada in favour of a then-more advantageous marriage to Sichelgaita, the sister of Prince Gisulf II of Salerno. Nevertheless, the split was amicable and Alberada showed no later ill will.
She was alive at the death of Bohemond in March 1111 and died very old, probably in July 1122 or thereabouts. She was buried in the Hauteville family mausoleum in Venosa, where her tomb is the only one to come down to us intact.
Alan III of Rennes (997 – October 1, 1040) was duke of Brittany, from 1008 to his death. He was son of Duke Geoffrey I and Havise of Normandy. Alan married Bertha of Blois and had at least two children: Conan II his successor, and Havise of Brittany, who married Hoel of Cornwall.
Emma of Brittany who was wife of Robert de Bruges and mother Robert de Brusse is also considered a daughter of Alan III. Her son is the ancestor of the House of Bruce. Alan III was poisoned.
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Robert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (1052–after 1130), also spelled Belleme or Belesme, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most promiment figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. He also known as Robert II de Montgommery, seigneur of Bellême.
He was the eldest son of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel of Bellême.
Robert's first notable act, as a young man, was to take part in the 1077 revolt of the young Robert Curthose against William the Conqueror, an act he shared with many other Norman nobles of his generation. The rebellion was put down, and the participants pardoned. William did require that ducal garrisons be placed in the important baronial castles, which would make future rebellion much more difficult.
Robert's mother Mabel was killed in 1082, whereupon Robert inherited her property which stretched across the hilly border region between Normandy and Maine. It is due to this early inheritance that Robert has come be known as of Bellême rather than of Montgomery.
William the Conqueror died in 1087, and Robert's first act on hearing the news was to expel the ducal garrisons from his castles. Robert Curthose was the new duke of Normandy, but he was unable to keep order, and Robert of Bellême had a free hand to make war against his less powerful neighbors.
The next year in the Rebellion of 1088, Odo of Bayeux rebelled in an attempt to place Curthose on the English throne in place of William Rufus. At Curthose's request Robert went to England, where he joined in the rebels' defense of Rochester Castle. The rebels were permitted to leave after the surrender of the castle and failure of the rebellion.
Robert returned to Normandy. But Odo had preceded him, had gotten the ear of the duke, and conviced Curthose that Robert was a danger to the security of the duchy. Thus Robert was arrested and imprisoned upon his disembarkation. (The duke's younger brother Henry, who was on the same ship, was also arrested.)
Robert's father earl Roger came over from England, and, taking over his son's castles, defied Curthose. The duke captured several of the castles, but he soon tired of the matter and released Robert.
Once released, Robert returned to his wars and depredations against his neighbors in southern Normandy. He did help Curthose in putting down a revolt by the citizens of Rouen, but his motive seems to have been in large part to seize as many wealthy townspeople and their goods as possible. Curthose in turn subsequently helped Robert is some of his fights againsts his neighbors.
In 1094 one of Robert's most important castles, Domfront, was taken over by the duke's brother Henry, who never relinquished it and was to be an enemy of Robert for the rest of his life.
Later that year (1094) Robert's father earl Roger died. Robert's younger brother Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury inherited the English lands and titles, while Robert inherited his father's Norman properties, which included good part of central and southern Normandy, in part adjacent to the Bellême territories he had already inherited from his mother.
In 1098 Robert's younger brother Hugh died, and Robert inherited the English properties that had been their father's, including the Rape of Arundel and the Earldom of Shrewsbury.
Robert was one of the great magnates who joined Robert Curthose's 1101 invasion of England, along with his brothers Roger the Poitevin and Arnulf of Montgomery and his nephew William of Mortain. This invasion, which aimed to depose Henry I, ended in the Treaty of Alton. The treaty called for amnesty for the participants but allowed traitors to be punished. Henry had a series of charges drawn up against Robert in 1102, and when Robert refused to answer for them, gathered his forces and besieged and captured Robert's English castles. Robert lost his English lands and titles (as did his brothers), was banished from England, and returned to Normandy.
He was one of Curthose's commanders at the Battle of Tinchebrai and by flight from the field avoided being captured as Curthose was. With Normandy now under Henry's rule, he submitted and was allowed to retain his Norman fiefs. But after various conspiracies and plans to free Curthose Robert was seized and imprisoned in 1112. He spent the rest of his life in prison; the exact date of his death is not known.
Robert had a quick wit, was a good military leader and was perhaps the best castle designer of his generation, but had a terrible reputation as a cruel sadist.
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William d'Aubigny (died 1155) was an itinerant justice under King Henry I of England. He was commonly known under the appellation Brito. He fought at the Battle of Tinchebray and acquired the honor of Belvoir, which became the center of the family estates, as marriage portion from his wife, Cecily, daughter of Roger Bigod.
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