ROBERT OF JUMIGES

born , Normandy, Fr. died c. 1055, , Jumiges one of the Normans given high position by the English king Edward the Confessor. Robert was prior of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, Fr., when elected abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Jumiges in 1037. Taken to England by King Edward in 1042, he was made bishop of London in 1044. He became Edward's chief adviser and head of the Norman party and was appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 1051. Robert influenced Edward to exile the overpowerful Godwine, earl of Wessex; and, when Godwine returned in 1052, Robert himself was banished to the Continent. He retired to Jumiges. The uncanonical usurpation of his see by Stigand, bishop of Winchester, caused the papacy to support the invasion of England in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy (later King William I the Conqueror, of England).