Part 87

Robert, son of William the Conqueror, i. 190; Duke of Normandy, 191; pledges Normandy to Rufus, 197; goes on crusade, ib.; returns, 198; invades England, 200, 201; defeated at Tenchebray, 202

Robert, Earl of Gloucester, i. 216, 217, 219, 220

Robespierre, Maximilien, viii. 96

Robinson, John, v. 308

Rochelle, La, protests against severance from France, ii. 280; surrendered to France, 287; attempt to relieve it, 291; revolts, v. 256; siege of, ib.; English expeditions to, 259, 263; surrenders, 266, 274

Roches, Peter des, Bishop of Winchester and justiciar, i. 341, 347; ii. 32, 34

Rochester surrenders to William the Red, i. 192; to John, 354; diocese of, i. 83

Rochester, Robert Carr, Viscount, v. 190-193. See Somerset

Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of (see Hyde), vii. 2, 20, 98

Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of, vi. 162

Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth, second Marquis of, prime minister, vii. 329, 331; relations with Burke, 332; resigns, 339; draws away from Chatham, viii. 16; returns to office, 38; opposes reform, 64; death, 65

Rocroi, battle of, vi. 190

Rodney, Admiral, viii. 40

Roger, Bishop of Salisbury and justiciar, i. 215, 218, 219

Roger (the Poor), chancellor, i. 218

Rogers, John, iv. 91, 95

Roland, Song of, i. 163

Romance, growth of, i. 246, 247

Romances, the French, ii. 357; their influence on Chaucer, 360

Rome, disappearance of its influence in England, i. 41, 44, 45; returns with Augustine, 58, 59; Ælfred's intercourse with, 113; stormed by the Duke of Bourbon, iii. 269

Romorantin taken by the Black Prince, ii. 261

Romsey, Abbey of, i. 199

Rookwood of Euston Hall, iv. 308

Roper's Life of More, iii. 83

Rosbecque, battle of, ii. 349

Roses, Wars of the, their beginning, iii. 77; their results, 86, 87

Ross, General, viii. 204

Rossbach, battle of, vii. 263