Robert Blund
{{Short description|11th-century Norman Sheriff of Norfolk}}
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Robert Blund was a Norman nobleman and Sheriff of Norfolk after the Norman Conquest of England.
Blund was named in Domesday Book as the Sheriff of Norfolk, so he held that office sometime before 1086, when Domesday was compiled.Green English Sheriffs p. 60 Blund was also the lord of Ashfield in Suffolk, and is considered to have been the feudal baron of Ashfield.Sanders English Baronies p. 3
Domesday Book states that Blund inherited his lands in Suffolk from his brother, who was named Ralph.Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 370
Blund's heir was his son Gilbert, who had inherited the fiefs by sometime in the reign of King Henry I of England. Besides his son, Blund had at least two daughters, who were married to William of Audley and Robert de Albamara. Another possible relative was Gilbert Blund, who held lands from Robert Malet.
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- {{cite book |author=Green, Judith A. |authorlink=Judith Green (historian) |title = English Sheriffs to 1154 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London|series =Public Record Office Handbooks Number 24 |year=1990 |isbn=0-11-440236-1}}
- {{cite book |author=Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. | authorlink= Katharine Keats-Rohan |title=Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Ipswich, UK |year=1999 |isbn=0-85115-722-X }}
- {{cite book |author=Sanders, I. J. |title=English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327 |publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, UK |year=1960 |oclc= 931660}}
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