He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106.

In the following year, 1101, Robert Curthose, Henry's eldest brother, attempted to seize the crown by invading England.

On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.

In 1080, William sent his son Robert Curthose north with an army while his brother Odo punished the Northumbrians.

When William Rufus became king of England after his father's death, Malcolm did not intervene in the rebellions by supporters of Robert Curthose which followed.

In May, Malcolm marched south, not to raid and take slaves and plunder, but to besiege Newcastle, built by Robert Curthose in 1080.

The threat was enough to bring the English king back from Normandy, where he had been fighting Robert Curthose.

Unlike in 1072, Malcolm was prepared to fight, but a peace was arranged by Edgar Ætheling and Robert Curthose whereby Malcolm again acknowledged the overlordship of the English king.

* 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.

In 1106 he invaded and captured the Duchy of Normandy, controlled by his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, defeating Robert's army at the battle of Tinchebray.

The problem was further complicated by the sequence of unstable Anglo-Norman successions over the previous sixty years — William the Conqueror had gained England by force, William Rufus and Robert Curthose had fought a war between them to establish their inheritance, and Henry had only acquired control of Normandy by force.

He also allowed his son Robert Curthose to do homage to the new Count of Anjou, Geoffrey the Bearded.

He was the third of four sons, with the eldest being Robert Curthose, the second Richard, and the youngest Henry.

In 1096, William's brother Robert Curthose joined the First Crusade.

* Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy

* June 20 – Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, lands in Portsmouth to try to take the throne from his brother, Henry.

On the other hand, he was successful on the whole in pursuing the policy of Geoffrey Martel in Maine: after destroying La Flèche, by the peace of Blanchelande ( 1081 ), he received the homage of Robert Curthose (" Courteheuse "), son of William the Conqueror, for Maine.

William the Aetheling having perished in the wreck of the White Ship ( 25 November 1120 ), Fulk, on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1120 – 1121 ), married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI, to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving her Maine for a dowry ( 1122 or 1123 ).

* February 10 – Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy

Ulf threw his lot in with Robert Curthose, who knighted him, and then disappeared from history.

Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy ( reigned 1087 – 1106 ) lost the throne of England to his younger brothers William II ( reigned 1087 – 1100 ) and Henry I ( reigned 1100 – 1135 ).

* Robert Curthose instigates his first insurrection against his father, William the Conqueror.

* September 28 – Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes Castle ; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.

After King William's death in 1087 Edgar supported William's eldest son Robert Curthose, who succeeded him as Duke of Normandy, against his second son, William Rufus, who received the throne of England as William II.

The negotiations were conducted by Edgar on behalf of Malcolm and the newly reconciled Robert Curthose on behalf of William.

King Robert II of Scotland ( 1316 – 1390 ) had a hunting lodge in the area.

It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

* Booknotes interview with Robert Leckie on Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II, September 3, 1995.

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** Robert II ( 996 – 1031 )

** Robert II ( 1272 – 1306 )

* Robert II ( 996 – 1031 )

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She was not aided by memories of Queen Constance, the Provençal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror.

On 21 March, the four archbishops, with the approval of Pope Eugenius, granted an annulment due to consanguinity within the fourth degree ( Eleanor and Louis were fourth cousins, once removed, and shared common ancestry with Robert II of France ).

Eleanor and Henry were cousins to the third degree through their common ancestor, Ermengarde of Anjou ( wife to Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais ); they were also both descendants of Robert II of France.

* 1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.

* 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ).

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

After David II's death, Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, came to the throne in 1371.

Robert II, as King of the Franks, met Emperor Henry II in 1023 on the borderline.

The reign of Robert II was quite important because it involved the Peace and Truce of God ( beginning in 989 ) and the Cluniac Reforms.

Robert II crowned his son — Hugh Magnus — as King of the Franks at age 10 to secure the succession, but Hugh Magnus rebelled against his father and died fighting him in 1025.

* Robert received the Duchy of Normandy and became Duke Robert II

When, on 2 August 1100, William II was killed by an arrow in a hunting accident in the New Forest, where Henry was also hunting, Duke Robert had not yet returned from the First Crusade.

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