Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, Ca. 1025-1098
by W. Scott Jessee
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Robert the Burgundian, a castellan of Anjou who helped defend Maine from the ambitions of Normandy, is one of the most documented individuals of the period. Unusually, Robert wrote his own history of the region and described his motives for joining the First Crusade at the end of his long life.