a legend of medieval origin about a Norman knight who discovers he is the son of Satan.
A long time ago, the wife of one of the Norman dukes who was unable to have children, asked the Devil for help. She gave birth to a boy named Robert, who grew up to be unbelievably violent and cruel.
In the hope that it would make him less hot headed, the boy’s father urged him to become a knight. He took instruction in the arts of combat but utterly rejected courtly virtues. As a young man, he led a band of brigands who terrorised the Norman countryside, earning him the nickname, Robert the Devil.
One day, troubled by the uncertainty of his origins, he threatened his mother with a sword and forced her to confess the devil’s role in his conception.
Shocked by this revelation, he left Normandy and went East to do penance and seek God’s forgiveness. In Rome, he confessed to the Pope who sent him to solicit advice from a holy hermit. The hermit ordered him to behave like a madman, to take a vow of silence, and to accept humiliation by sharing his food with dogs.
He came to the attention of the emperor, who was entertained by the sight of a madman snatching food from the mouth of a dog. The emperor took Robert under his protection and let him live under one of the palace staircases, near the chapel.
At this time, Rome came under attack by its enemies, the Saracens, three times. On the point of surrender, the city was saved in extremis by a mysterious knight, dressed all in white. The knight was none other than Robert the Devil.
When his secret was discovered, the emperor offered Robert his daughter’s hand in marriage and his kingdom as an inheritance. However, Robert would not accept this reward and the power he was offered. Instead he withdrew from the palace and resumed the life of a hermit until he died, when and where no one knows.
Robert I of Normandy/Robert the Liberal , Robert the Magnificent
Some authors believed they saw Robert the Magnificent , Duke of Normandy and father of William the Conqueror .
Their lives indeed have points in common: a turbulent adolescence, a stay in Constantinople with the emperor , violence against the clergy followed by assimilation to the devil, an apparently sincere repentance and an expiatory pilgrimage (the literary character goes to Rome , while Robert the Magnificent goes to Jerusalem ), finally an edifying death. However, significant discrepancies exist: Robert did not have a mother named Indre, he did not renounce the duchy of Normandy to become a hermit, etc.
In any case, even if one may be tempted to reconcile historical interpretation and legendary vision based on analogies, these remain very fragile.
According to William Hunt in the Dictionary of National Biography, various stories of his sadistic cruelty were circulated after his death. In Maine, “his abiding works are pointed to as the works of Robert the Devil, a surname that has been transferred from him to the father of the Conqueror.
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Robert the Magnificent or Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, 1000-1035
The Castle
Located on the heights of Moulineaux, near Rouen, the ruins of Robert the Devil’s castle are visible from the A13 highway linking Paris to the Normandy beaches.
There are many interpretations of this monument. Some attribute it to Rollon, also named Robert, others to Robert the Magnificent or even to his grandson Robert Courteheuse.
The first writings mentioning the fortress of Moulineaux date from 1180. John Lackland made several visits to Moulineaux between 1199 and 1204 and various writings testify to work on the defense and maintenance of a garrison. The fortress was dismantled at the time of the conquest of Normandy by Philip Augustus, and then completely razed during the Hundred Years’ War in order to avoid its occupation by the English army.
Robert the Devil gave his name to a castle , located in Moulineaux , near Rouen , along the A13 motorway . But no proof of its construction by this character exists, especially since the oldest ruined parts date from the 13th century .
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