Note 1277 — Chapter IX · HENRY AND ENGLAND. 1154–1157.
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Robert appears as capitalis justicia in a charter of, apparently, 1155 (Eyton, Itin. Hen. II., p. 3). In 1159–1160, John of Salisbury describes him as “illustris comes Legrecestriæ Robertus, modeste proconsulatum gerens apud Britannias” (Joh. Salisb. Polycrat., l. vi. c. 25; Giles, vol. iv. p. 65), and at his death in 1168 he is named in the Chron. Mailros (ad ann.) as “comes justus Leicestrie, et qui summa justitia vocatur.”