Robert Walpole managed to wind it down with minimal political and economic damage, although some losers fled to exile or committed suicide.

Henry was crowned emperor by his creature, but Robert Guiscard, with whom in the meantime Gregory had formed an alliance, was already marching on the city, and Henry fled towards Civita Castellana.

He then installed a Spiritual Franciscan, Pietro Rainalducci as Antipope Nicholas V, but both fled Rome in August 1328, after Robert, King of Naples had sent both a fleet and an army against them.

The king was furious, but he was forced to give way and restore Godwin and Harold to their earldoms, while Robert of Jumierges and other Frenchmen fled, fearing Godwin's vengeance.

Acoli then exited the car and — after being ordered to halt by Trooper Robert Palentchar ( Car 817 ), the first on the scene — fled into the woods as Palentchar emptied his gun.

Within 36 hours, Brown's men had fled or been killed or captured by local pro slavery farmers, militiamen, and U. S. Marines led by Robert E. Lee.

His lawyers filed an appeal in the Court of Cassation, but Papon fled to Switzerland under the name of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, in violation of French law which requires one to report to prison before the beginning of the appeal hearing.

In 922 The barons of western Francia, after revolting against the Carolingian king Charles the Simple who fled his kingdom, elected Robert I, Hugh's father, as King of Western Francia.

The event provides subtle continuity to the heritage of former warden Robert Thistlethwayte, who fled England in 1739 after a homosexual scandal prompting the limerick:

* Robert Thistlethwayte, the Warden who fled to France in 1737 after a homosexual scandal

There were three reasons given for Stigand's deposition: that he held the bishopric of Winchester in plurality with Canterbury ; that he not only occupied Canterbury after Robert of Jumièges fled but also seized Robert's pallium which was left behind ; and that he received his own pallium from Benedict X, an anti-pope.

Robert accompanied David into battle at Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346 but he and Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March escaped or fled the field and David was taken prisoner.

On the 17 October 1346, Robert accompanied David into battle at Neville's Cross, where many Scottish nobles including Randolph, died — David II was wounded and captured while Robert and Patrick, earl of March had apparently fled the field.

Heading a conspiracy, the Burgundian drove Robert from Constantinople, he fled to Rome to seek redress from the pope who convinced him to return to Constantinople, but on his return trip, in early in 1228, the emperor died in Morea.

Robert was also demanding heavy taxes, and Ralph fled with Serlo, Bishop of Séez, who was also subjected to Robert's demands.

These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for King James VII in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant.

Thomas Bates fled, along with Robert Wintour.

Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria, captured twelve of their ships, killing all on board save a few who fled.

After Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, Judah P. Benjamin fled south with Jefferson Davis and the rest of his cabinet, but he left the group shortly before they reached Washington, Georgia, where they held their last meeting.

This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.

A decade later, in 1715, Beekman's son brought in 35 Palatine Germans who had fled religious persecution at home and had just concluded an attempt to produce naval stores for the British government on the lands of Robert Livingston to the north in what is now Columbia County.

This left Flanders in the grip of a succession crisis ; Baldwin VI's widow was ruling for her two young sons, but her rule was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.

* Robert II, Count of Flanders, Crusader

** July 15 – Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.

* February 22 – A succession struggle erupts in Flanders between Richilde, widow of Baldwin VI and her brother-in-law Robert the Frisian, son of Baldwin V. Robert defeats Richilde and her nephew Arnulf III in the Battle of Cassel and is appointed count by King Philip.

* October 5 – Robert II, Count of Flanders ( b. 1065 )

* September 17 – Robert III of Flanders ( b. 1249 )

* Blanche ( 1250 – July 1269 ), married 1265 Count Robert III of Flanders

Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders ( reigned 1067 – 1070 ) was effectively succeeded by his brother Robert I ( reigned 1071 – 1093 ), rather than his own sons.

* Robert III of Flanders

He therefore took up residence in Flanders, whose count, Robert the Frisian, was hostile to the Normans.

He called up a fleet of 1, 000 Danish ships, 60 Norwegian long boats, with plans to meet with another 600 ships under Duke Robert of Flanders in the summer of 1086.

Robert was the eldest son of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England, and Matilda of Flanders, and a participant in the First Crusade.

Robert seems to have left court soon after the death of his mother, Queen Matilda, and spent several years travelling throughout France, Germany and Flanders.

She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders

( Robert Flanders, Nauvoo, page 289 )

Behind them, the third battle consisted of about 700 men from the county of Flanders under Gilles II de Trasignies, Constable of France, and Robert III of Flanders.

In 1332, a crisis with the king of France arose over John's hospitality to Robert, count of Flanders, during his journey to eventual asylum at the English court.

* Robert II of Flanders ( 1065 – 1111 ), known as " Robert of Jerusalem "

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

In October 1595 Oxford wrote to his brother in law, Sir Robert Cecil of friction between himself and the ill-fated Earl of Essex, partly over his claim to the property, terming him ' the only person that I dare rely upon in the court '.

As father-in-law to the newly-widowed Robert Cecil, Cobham certainly possessed the influence at court to get his complaint heard quickly.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

However, there was a strong faction at the English court, headed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, proposing that Mary and William, because of their anti-Catholic position, should be replaced by some Catholic French heir.

His father introduced him to the Neapolitan nobility and the French-influenced court of Robert the Wise in the 1330s.

* 1794 – Robert Forsythe, a U. S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.

The fact that ordinary father-son ( or grandfather-grandson ) succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.

Dowland performed a number of espionage assignments for Sir Robert Cecil in France and Denmark ; his high rate of pay notwithstanding, Dowland seems to have been only a court musician.

His son Robert Dowland was also a musician, working for some time in the service of the first Earl of Devonshire, and taking over his father's position of lutenist at court when John died.

At the age of 16, she asked a kinsman, Durand Lassois, to bring her to nearby Vaucouleurs, where she petitioned the garrison commander, Count Robert de Baudricourt, for permission to visit the royal French court at Chinon.

The remainder of the inner court was built by Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, in the 1570s.

Robert Yates argued: " The supreme court then have a right, independent of the legislature, to give a construction to the constitution and every part of it, and there is no power provided in this system to correct their construction or do it away.

* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.

This is reinforced for some by the alleged similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley, South Yorkshire, in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the " Kings Larder " in the Royal Forest of the Peak, a record of the appearance of a " Robert de Lockesly " in court is found, dated 1245.

Robert had tried to convince Theobald to take the throne in 1135 ; he did not attend Stephen's first court in 1136 and it took several summonses to convince him to attend court at Oxford later that year.

In 1095, Robert de Mowbray, the earl of Northumbria, refused to attend the Curia Regis, the thrice-annual court where the King announced his governmental decisions to the great lords.

** In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

He served as both court artist and diplomat and became a senior member of the Tournai painters ' guild, where he enjoyed the company of similarly esteemed artists such as Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden.

Robert Dudley's private life interfered with his court career and vice versa.

Robert Dudley was counted among Princess Elizabeth's special friends by Philip II's envoy to the English court a week before Queen Mary's death.

Impellitteri ran for reelection in 1953, but was defeated by then Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who appointed him a criminal court judge in 1954.

Example of a court card, postmarked 1899, showing Robert Burns and his cottage and monument in Ayr