Robert de Meules
Robert de Meules († 1101 or 1131), was lord of the manor of Brionne, lord of Meules and the Sap in Normandy, and of Okehampton in the Devon.
Robert de Meules was one of wire of Baudouin of Grinding stones.
If one follows the chronicler Orderic Vital, Robert accepted the guard of the castle of Brionne towards 1090 with the hands of the duke Robert Courteheuse. As grandson of Gilbert de Brionne, it could legitimately claim with this function. The duke had just obtained this fortress of Roger de Beaumont in exchange of that of Ivry. But Robert I {{er}} of Meulan, the son of Roger, refused this agreement and claimed in Robert Courteheuse Brionne. The plaintiff was imprisoned. But Roger de Beaumont succeeds in persuading the weak duke Robert Courteheuse of his error. He released Robert Ier de Meulan and against the promise of a money large sum, agreed to return in Beaumont-Meulan Brionne.
The guard of the castle, Robert de Meules, did not hear it thus. He answered to the duke that he would not make any difficulty of giving this castle to him, provided that the duke retains it itself, otherwise, he would keep it. The duke and Beaumont-Meulan thus reflect the seat in front of Brionne. This castle had held three years at the time when GUI of Burgundy had taken refuge there after it had tried to reverse the duke Guillaume Bastard the in 1047 (see Bataille of Valley-be-Dunes). It held only a few hours this time. Besieging drew from the heated arrows with white, and fire took quickly inside the castle. Robert and his handle of knights had to go.
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