BLOET, ROBERT (d. 1123), English bishop, was chancel lor to William I. and Rufus. From the latter he received the see of Lincoln (5093) in succession to Remigius. He administered his see with skill and prudence, built largely, and kept a magnifi cent household, which served as a training-school even for the sons of nobles. Bloet was active in assisting Henry I. during the rebellion of 1102, and became his justiciar. Latterly, however, he fell out of favour, and was impoverished by the fines which the king extorted from him. He was the patron of the chronicler Henry of Huntingdon, whom he advanced to an archdeaconry.
See Henry of Huntingdon (Historia Anglorum) and W. Malmesbury (De Gestis Ponti flcum) , also E. A. Freeman, William Rufus (1882) ; Sir James Ramsay, The Foundations of England, vol. ii. (1898).