Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Robert of Jumiges Archbishop of Canterbury (1051-2). Robert Champart was a Norman monk of St. Ouen at Rouen and was prior of that house in 1037 he was elected Abbot of Jumièges. As abbot he began to build the fine Norman abbey-church, and at this time he was able to be of service to St. … Continue reading “Robert of Jumièges”

Robert Of Gloucester an English chronicler, lived in the latter half of the 13th century. He was a monk in the Abbey of Gloucester, and does not appear to have lived long after 1265. He composed a rhymed chronicle of more than ten thousand verses, written in Anglo-Saxon, containing the history of England from the … Continue reading “Robert Of Gloucester”

Robert of Geneva Anti-pope Clement VII in 1378. Born in 1342 at Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Amadeus III, Count of Geneva, of the House of Savoy; died on 16 September 1394 in Avignon, France. Bishop of Therouanne in 1361, Archbishop of Cambrai in 1368, papal legate in Upper Italy, created cardinal in 1371. Noted … Continue reading “Robert Of Geneva”

Robert of Courccedil;on (DE CURSONE, DE CURSIM, CURSUS, ETC.). Cardinal, born at Kedleston, England; died at Damietta, 1218. After having studied at Oxford, Paris, and Rome, he became in 1211 Chancellor of the University of Paris; in 1212 he was made Cardinal of St. Stephen on the Cedilla Hill; in 1213 he was appointed legate … Continue reading “Robert of Courccedil;on”

Robert Of Bavaria; Of Deutz SEE RUPERT. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Robert of Arbrissel Itinerant preacher, founder of Fontevrault, b. c. 1047 at Arbrissel (now Arbressec) near Rhétiers, Brittany; d. at Orsan, probably 1117. Robert studied in Paris during the pontificate of Gregory VII, perhaps under Anselm of Laon and later displayed considerable theological knowledge. The date and place of his ordination are unknown. In 1089 … Continue reading “Robert of Arbrissel”

Robert Molyneux Jesuit missionary, born near Formby, England , 1738; died 1808. Entering the Society of Jesus, 1757, he was appointed pastor of Philadelphia, 1772; later in Bohemia and Newtown, Mayland; opened the first parish school and edited the first Catholic catechism in America. One of the signers of the “Form of Government,” 1784, petition … Continue reading “Robert Molyneux”

Robert Mannyng Gilbertine canon, born Bourne, Lincolnshire, England , c.1288; died c.1338. His “Handlying Synne” and “Chronicle of England,” metrical free translations from the French, did much to make the East-Midland speech the literary dialect of English. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Robert Le Poule, Or Robertus Pallus chancellor of the Church of Rome, flourished about 1150. He was perhaps archdeacon of Rochester, and certainly a distinguished lecturer on the Scriptures at Oxford. He was the author of Sententire, or Libri Sententiarum, or Sententioe de Trinitate (in MS. in the British Museum): twenty Sermons: probably a treatise … Continue reading “Robert Le Poule, Or Robertus Pallus”

Robert Lawrence, Blessed Martyr. Died in 1535 at Tyburn, London, England. A Carthusian priest, prior of Beauvale in Nottingham, he was executed with John Houghton and the other Carthusian friars. Beatified in 1886. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary