1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 143 One Robert Flower..got institution and confirmation of an Order about the yeare 1137 which after his owne name he called Robertins.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 274 I will conclude with the Robertines, confounded by some, distinguished by others from Fryers Trinitarians. These owe their originall to one Robert Flower, son of Took Flower, who had been twice Major of Yorke.

1764 Eng. Illustr. II. 387 This cell was the hermitage of Robert, the founder of a religious sect called the Robertines.

1812 B. Hofland Season at Harrogate 93 This Robert founded himself a new order of monks, called Robertines, but it is probable that they soon diminished to nothing, as we do not meet with their name either in the Breviary or Baronius.

1846 T. Wright Biogr. Brit. Lit.: Anglo-Norman Period iv. 201 His disciples formed a sect which was long known by the name of Robertines.

1906 W. H. Schofield Eng. Lit. to Chaucer ii. 52 At Mont St. Geneviève the ‘Robertines’ long continued to discuss their leader's great work..the Summa Theologiae, which above all gave warrant for his repute as a metaphysician.

1896 F. Leake Hist. Bubbles 79 At the death of Philip de Rouvre there was strife for the Robertine inheritance.

1938 Z. N. Brooke Hist. Europe iv. 96 The ambition of the Robertine house dictated the fortunes of the French kingdom in the tenth century.

1993 Speculum 68 952 The Robertine family had first emerged into the light of history in the reign of Charles the Bad.