Robert de Comines
His name suggests that he originally came from Comines, then in the County of Flanders, and entered the following of William the Conqueror.He reached Durham with 700 men, where the bishop, Æthelwine, warned him that an army was mobilised against him.He ignored the warning and, on 28 January 1069, the rebels converged on Durham and killed many of his men in the streets, eventually setting fire to the bishop's house in which Robert had taken refuge and Robert died.[1] After this attack, Æthelwine turned against the Normans and gathered an army in Durham before marching on York, leading to the Harrying of the North in retaliation by King William's army.This biography of an earl or countess in the Peerage of England is a stub.