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Robert Bastard (fl.1086) (also known as
Robert le Bastard,
Latinised as
Rotbertus /
Robertus Bastardus[1]) was a
Norman warrior who assisted in the 1066
Norman Conquest of England under King
William the Conqueror. He was subsequently rewarded with landholdings in Devonshire and is one of the
Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of that monarch,
[2] with a holding of 10 manors or estates held in chief, 8 of which he held in
demesne, i.e. under his own management without tenants. He had at least one
[3] further holding as a
mesne tenant, at Goosewell, Plymstock parish,
Plympton hundred, held from William of Poilley, a Norman tenant-in-chief from
Poilley in Normandy, most of whose 21 landholdings were later granted by King
Henry I (1100–1135) to his trusted supporter
Richard de Redvers (died 1107),
feudal baron of Plympton[4] in Devon.
