Robert I, Duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror, seized with illness during his 1035 AD pilgrimage to Jerusalem

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Robert I, Duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror, seized with illness during his 1035 AD pilgrimage to Jerusalem is carried in his litter by Negroes. He is reported to have said, "I am being taken by demons into paradise." From Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix published London circa 1880.

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