1. Before he came to England, Robert had begun the construction of a new abbey church at Jumièges, in the new Romanesque style which was then becoming popular, and introduced to Normandy the two-towered western facade from the Rhineland.

Avant son départ en Angleterre, Robert avait commencé la construction de l'abbatiale Notre-Dame de Jumièges, dans le nouveau style romane qui est ensuite devenu populaire.