Editing Robert of Jumièges (section)

==Background and life in Normandy==
[[Image:Abbaye de Jumièges.jpg|thumb|Jumièges Abbey|alt=Roofless stone ruins on a grass lawn]]
Robert was prior of the [[Church of St. Ouen, Rouen|monastery of St Ouen]] at Rouen before he became abbot of the important Jumièges Abbey<ref name="Douglas167">Douglas ''William the Conqueror'' p. 167–170</ref><ref name="Church44">Barlow ''English Church 1000–1066'' p. 44</ref> in 1037.<ref name="DNB" /> Jumièges had been refounded under the Norman ruler [[William Longsword]]<ref name="Crouch30">Crouch ''Normandy Before 1066'' p. 30</ref><ref name="Normans12">Crouch ''Normans'' p. 12</ref> around 940.<ref name="Crouch58">Crouch ''Normandy Before 1066'' p. 58</ref> Its ties with the ducal family were close and it played a role in ducal government and church reform.<ref name="Crouch193">Crouch ''Normandy Before 1066'' pp. 193–194</ref> Robert's alternate surname "Champart" or "Chambert" probably derived from [[champart]], a term for the part of a crop paid as rent to a landlord. Besides evidence that the preceding abbot at Jumièges was a relative, Robert's origin and family background are otherwise unknown. While abbot, Robert began construction of the abbey church, in the new [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] style.<ref name="DNB">Cowdrey "Robert of Jumièges" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>

Robert became friendly with Edward the Confessor, a claimant to the English throne, while Edward was living in exile in Normandy, probably in the 1030s.<ref name="Barlow50" /> Edward was the son of [[Æthelred the Unready]], king of England, who had been replaced by [[Cnut the Great]] in 1016. Cnut subsequently married Æthelred's widow [[Emma of Normandy]], Edward's mother, and had a son with her, [[Harthacanute]]. For their own safety, Edward and his brother [[Alfred Aetheling|Alfred]] were sent to Emma's relatives in Normandy.<ref name="Hindley306">Hindley ''Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons'' pp. 306–310</ref>{{efn|Both Alfred and Edward returned to England in 1036, but afterwards Alfred was murdered, apparently on Harold's orders.<ref>Hindley ''Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons'' pp. 316–317</ref>}} After Cnut's death in 1035, [[Harold Harefoot]], his elder son by his first wife, acceded to the English throne. Following Harald's death in 1040, Harthacanute succeeded him for a short time, but as neither Harald nor Harthacanute left offspring, the throne was offered to Edward on Harthacanute's death in 1042.<ref name="Hindley315">Hindley ''Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons'' pp. 315–318</ref> There is some evidence that Edward spent some of his time in exile around Jumièges, as after becoming king he gave gifts to the abbey.<ref name="Normans78">Crouch ''Normans'' p. 78</ref>