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(Encyclopedia) Manning, Robert: see Mannyng, Robert. ...

(Encyclopedia) Robert Grosseteste: see Grosseteste, Robert. ...

(Encyclopedia) Robert, Hubert übârˈ rôbĕrˈ [key], 1733–1808, French painter and landscape architect. A follower of Piranesi and Pannini, Robert was known as a painter of idealized landscapes, fantastic ruins...

(Encyclopedia) Carr, Robert: see Somerset, Robert Carr, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dudley, Robert: see Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Devereux, Robert: see Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Robert Curthose: see Robert II, duke of Normandy. ...

(Encyclopedia) poet laureate lôˈrēĭt [key], title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having...

(Encyclopedia) Cecil, Robert: see Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Garnier, Robert gärnyāˈ [key], 1534?–1590, French dramatic poet. He wrote mainly closet dramas in the classical manner of Seneca. Les Juives [the Jewish women] (1583), based on the Bible, is per...