Robert resembled to a monk rather that with a king: he sang with the lectern, composed of the anthems, passed long hours to read and request.

The Constance queen, who liked the luxury, reproached him with hardness for not royally living, and Robert, as weak as good, was unceasingly divided between his piety and his tenderness for his wife; he hid, says one, to make alms.

The poor which knew the great charity of king Robert, misused it sometimes.

One feastday, in Étampes, Robert had inserted some poor in the room where it soupait, and it gave them to eat by ground as with dogs which their Master spoils.

When they had left, one realized that they had stolen the gold fringes of the royal coat.

The queen was strong in anger and regretted the beautiful fringes, but the kings was satisfied to say while smiling: "They for of required undoubtedly more that me" the chroniclers tell good king Robert several anecdotes of the same kind.

Philippe 1st, having repudiated his Berthe wife to marry Bertrade, woman of the count d' Anjou, was excommunicated by the pope Urbain II, then by the council of Clermont: at once all the good Christians moved away from him, its servants even did not dare more to approach it.

Philippe, to obtain his forgiveness, promised to return Bertrade and to make penitence, but it held its word badly.

The year which preceded the battle by Hastings, Harold was thrown by a storm on the coast of France, and from Guillaume his freedom only while swearing to him with solemnity in front of a crowd of Norman lords to recognize it for king d' Angleterre with died of Édouard the Confessor obtained: he believed that his promise was without consequence, parce which he had extended the hand only on small relics, but Guillaume had dissimulated under a carpet a large tank full with bones of Saints; when the carpet was raised, Harold realized trap where it had fallen and fades of terror: its oath was crowned more than it had not believed.

Harold having missed with its oath, Guillaume made it excommunicate solemnly, and invades England in the name of the Pope, who had sent a banner bénite and a hair of Saint-Pierre to him; a great number of priests and monks followed his army, and sang litanies.

The day of the battle of Hastings, it attached to its armour the most venerated relics on which Harold had sworn, and the Norman ones, exaltés by this spectacle, sprang ahead with the cries of "Notre-Dame! God helps! God helps! "the Anglo-Saxons were exterminated, and unfortunate Harold with the number of had died (October 1066).