Count Robert of Paris

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Count Robert of Paris
Author	Sir Walter Scott
Country	Scotland
Language	English, Lowland Scots
Series	Tales of My Landlord (4th series)
Genre(s)	Historical novel
Publication date	1832
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	N/A

Count Robert of Paris (1832) is a novel by Walter Scott It is part of Tales of My Landlord, 4th series.

Set in Constantinople at the time of the First Crusade, Count Robert of Paris portrays the impact of Western medieval values and attitudes on the sophisticated Romano-Greek classical society of the Byzantine Empire. The two main characters are Count Robert: a Frankish knight; - and Hereward: an Anglo-Saxon refugee from the Norman conquest of England, serving as a mercenary soldier in the Varangian Guard of the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Count Robert was an actual but minor historical figure who disrupted negotiations between the Crusader leaders and Alexius by occupying the latter's throne when it was temporarily vacated.

v • d • e Works by Walter Scott Novels: Waverley (1814) • Guy Mannering (1815) • The Antiquary (1816) • The Black Dwarf (1816) • Old Mortality (1816) • Rob Roy (1817) • The Heart of Midlothian (1818) • The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) • A Legend of Montrose (1819) • Ivanhoe (1819) • The Monastery (1820) • The Abbot (1820) • Kenilworth (1821) • The Pirate (1821) • The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) • Peveril of the Peak (1823) • Quentin Durward (1823) • St. Ronan's Well (1823) • Redgauntlet (1824) • The Betrothed (1825) • The Talisman (1825) • Woodstock (1826) • Chronicles of the Canongate (1827) • The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) • Anne of Geierstein (1829) • Count Robert of Paris (1831) • Castle Dangerous (1831)