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Robert de Bethune (sometimes Robert de Betun or Robert de Béthune or Robert of Bethune; died 1148) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford. The son of a knight he became a teacher before becoming a canon a type of monk by 1115. He was elected prior of Llanthony Priory in the middle 1120s and was named bishop by King Henry I of England in 1130.