Lord Robert de Namur

Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 71, part 1/2

After returning from beyond sea, Lord Robert de Namur joined King Edward’s armament against the Spaniards, arriving in time to take part; the king was “exceedingly pleased at his arrival.” King Edward appointed him to command Le Salle du Roi, carrying the king’s household.

Late in the evening, Hanequin, a servant of Lord Robert de Namur, disabled a Spanish ship by cutting its ropes. Lord Robert de Namur then boarded with his men and attacked the crew, who were slain or thrown overboard, capturing the vessel.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lord Robert de Namur joined the king’s armament against the Spaniards.(Book 1, Chapter 71, part 1/2)
  • With: King Edward
  • “At this time and place that gallant knight Lord Robert de Namur, who was lately returned from beyond sea, joined the king: he came just in time to be one of this armament, and the king was exceedingly pleased at his arrival.”
• The king appointed Lord Robert de Namur to command “Le Salle du Roi.”(Book 1, Chapter 71, part 1/2)
  • With: King Edward
  • “He had appointed the Lord Robert de Namur to the command of a ship called ‘Le Salle du Roi,’ on board of which was all his household.”
• Hanequin disabled the Spanish ship, enabling Lord Robert to board and capture it.(Book 1, Chapter 71, part 2/2)
  • With: Hanequin
  • “The Spaniards would have carried away with ease this prize, if it had not been for a gallant act of one Hanequin, a servant to the Lord Robert, who, with his drawn sword on his wrist, leaped on board the enemy, ran to the mast, and cut the large cable which held the mainsail, by which it became unmanageable; and with great agility he cut other four principal ropes, so that the sails fell on the deck, and the course of the ship was stopped. Lord Robert, seeing this, advanced with his men, and, boarding the Spaniard sword in hand, attacked the crew so vigorously that all were slain or thrown overboard, and the vessel won.”

Book 1, Chapter 71, part 1/2

• with King Edward (The king appointed Robert to command a ship.) “He had appointed the Lord Robert de Namur to the command of a ship called ‘Le Salle du Roi,’ on board of which was all his household.”
• allies with King Edward “At this time and place that gallant knight Lord Robert de Namur, who was lately returned from beyond sea, joined the king: he came just in time to be one of this armament, and the king was exceedingly pleased at his arrival.”

Book 1, Chapter 71, part 2/2

• servant: Hanequin “one Hanequin, a servant to the Lord Robert, who, with his drawn sword on his wrist, leaped on board the enemy”
• with King Edward (Lord Robert's ship called to the king's ship for rescue.) “As they were thus towed, they passed near the king’s ship, to whom they cried out, ‘Rescue the ‘Salle du Roi,’’”

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