Jumièges

Jumièges, ROBERT OF, Archbishop of Canterbury, was a Norman by birth, and came to England in the train of Edward the Confessor, over whom he acquired great influence. He was made Bishop of London in 1044, and Archbishop of Canterbury in 1050, and from the first was the head of the anti-English party which gained a temporary triumph in 1051 by the banishment of Earl Godwin and his sons. Their return next year quickly drove him into exile in Normandy. The Witenagemot stripped him of his archbishopric, and he spent the remainder of his life in the monastery of Jumièges, 16 miles SW. of Rouen.