ROBERT, the name of three kings of Scotland. Robert I., or "The Bruce," was born in 1274, was crowned at Scone in 1306, and died in 1329. (See BRUCE.) Robert II., the first of the Stuart dynasty, and the grandson of the preceding, was born in 1316, succeeded David II. in 1371, and died in 1390. Robert III., whose original name was John, succeeded his father Robert II. in 1390, and died in 1400. (See SCOTLAND.)
ROBERT of Gloucester, a monk who flourished in the latter half of the thirteenth century, left behind him a rhyming chronicle. The subject is the history of England from the time of Brutus to the close of the reign of Henry III. The facts are chiefly taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth, and other old annals. The verse consists of long lines of fourteen syllables, and abounds in Saxonisms. There is little of art or of spirit in the execution. The rhyme seems to cramp the verse, and to make it limp along at a duller pace than even ordinary prose. The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester was printed by Hearne, in 2 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1724, and reprinted at London in 1810.