Robert of Jumièges (died 1052–1055?) was the first Norman Archbishop of Canterbury. He had served as prior of the Abbey of St Ouen at Rouen in Normandy, before becoming abbot of Jumièges Abbey (pictured), near Rouen, in 1037. He was a friend and advisor to the king of England, Edward the Confessor, who appointed him Bishop of London in 1044, and then archbishop in 1051. Robert's time as archbishop lasted only about eighteen months. He had already come into conflict with the powerful Earl Godwin of Wessex, and had made attempts to recover lands lost to Godwin and his family. He also refused to consecrate Spearhafoc, Edward's choice to succeed Robert as Bishop of London. The rift between Robert and Godwin culminated in Robert's deposition and exile in 1052, and he died at Jumièges shortly after. Robert commissioned significant building work at Jumièges and was probably involved in the first Romanesque building in England, the church built in Westminster for Edward the Confessor, now known as Westminster Abbey. Robert's treatment by the English was used as one of the justifications of William the Conqueror for his invasion of England.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1659:

Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoy at the Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Konotop

1864:

Canada's worst railway accident took place when a passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Hilaire_train_disaster

1974:

Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Mart%C3%ADnez_de_Per%C3%B3n

2006:

The US Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both US and international law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdan_v._Rumsfeld

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

bentwood: 1. (woodworking, countable and uncountable) Also attributive. Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.). 2. (countable) An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bentwood

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.   --Antoine de Saint Exupéry https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry