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	William, Count of Poitiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William (August 17, 1153 – 1156) was the first child of Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England) and Eleanor of Aquitaine, strangely born on the same day that his father's rival Eustace IV of Boulogne died.
		William was a younger maternal half-brother of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France.
		For centuries, the dukes of Aquitaine had held this as one of their minor titles, so it had passed to Eleanor from her father; giving it to her son was effectively a revival of the title, separating it from the dukedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William,_Count_of_Poitiers (249 words)

	William of Poitiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke William (William the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux.
		According to Freeman, "the work is disfigured by his constant spirit of violent partisanship." It was written between 1071 and 1077, and was used by Orderic Vitalis.
		William of Pointers was also the name of one of the children of Henry II of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Poitiers (257 words)

	William of Poitiers
		William was considered one of the best informed men of his time; he knew the Greek and Latin authors.
		Although the style has the pretentious character of the writings of that period, the composition is careful; the tone is that of a panegyric of William.
		KÖRTING, Wilhelms von Poitiers Gesta Guilelmi...Ein Beitrag zur anglonormann.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/william_of_poitiers.html (479 words)

	prop.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He thought William's wife Matilda would have created it in Bayeux for the coronation of her husband; he explained that the missing ending of the work was due to the queen's death in 1083, preventing her from accomplishing the piece.
		William of Jumièges mentioned that "a star appeared with three long rays" and so did the ASC C and D. A comet was seen as an announcement of either good or bad events.
		William's delay is mostly seen as being due to a north wind on the Channel, preventing a smooth and safe journey of the invaders.
	homepages.internet.lu /pitpeporte/btprop.htm (8886 words)

	Duke of Aquitaine - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		William I of Poitiers, Count of Poitiers and Auvergne, son of Ebalus of Aquitaine.
		William VII of Poitiers, Count of Poitiers and Duke of Gascony, son of previous.
		William VIII of Poitiers, Count of Poitiers and Duke of Gascony, son of previous.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Duke_of_Aquitaine (551 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William the Conqueror
		William was the natural son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, his mother, Herleva, being the daughter of a tanner of Falaise.
		To the pope, William was ever careful to show himself a considerate and respectful son, even on such occasions as when he firmly resisted the claim made by Gregory VII to feudal homage.
		The principal sources are the Gesta Willelmi of WILLIAM OF POITIERS, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Historia Ecclesiastica of ORDERICUS VITALIS, the Gesta Regum of WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY and the Historia Normannorum of WILLIAM OF JUMIÈGES.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15642c.htm (1528 words)

	Roger de Montgomeri: from The Conqueror and His Companions - Genealogy on Pat Patterson's Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		King William, during his visit to his Norman dominions in 1067, was greatly disquieted by the reports from England of the disaffection of his new subjects, and the advantage taken of it by the Danes.
		As the latter authority distinctly contradicts William of Poitiers, by making "old Rogier de Belmont" present at Senlac, in lieu of remaining in Normandy to counsel Matilda, he is as likely to be wrong in one assertion as the other.
		Roger de Montgomeri married, in 1048, Mabel, the daughter of that William, and niece of Ivo de Belesme, Bishop of Séez from 1035 to 1070.
	genealogy.patp.us /conq/montgmry.shtml (2186 words)

	WILLIAM OF POITIERS
		As a result we are taught in schools that William landed at Pevensey and moved down the coast to Hastings, where he camped to wait for Harold to arrive.
		The question has therefore to be asked whether Poitiers evidence is really that reliable or are we seeking to match the text to the current site of Pevensey and Hastings towns, with their established castles, when the correct site may have been elsewhere else in the vicinity.
		The reasons for believing that Poitiers may have repeated Jumieges mistake in naming Pevensey are for the same logistical and tactical reasons that I outlined in the Jumieges text.
	www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com /part3.htm (1205 words)

	Hodder History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lady Gytha (Harold’s mother) offered more than his weight in gold for his body, but was refused by the infuriated Duke William, who instead buried him on a nearby cliff, with a stone inscribed: ‘You rest here a king, that you may still guard the shore and sea’.
		Instead he commanded that the body be buried on a nearby cliff ‘in mockery as keeper of the shore and sea which he had recently sought to defend in his insanity’.
		William gave the body to Gytha, who buried it at Waltham, where a church was being built.
	www.kinscape.com /hh/did_harold_die_at_hastings.htm (430 words)

	William Marshall
		William's grandfather served as a marshal at the court of Henry I, hence his name - a marshal is a subordinate of the constable who controls the lord's stables and horses.
		William had received so many blows to his helmet, twisting it and bending it, that the flsmith was having to knock it back into shape.
		It was during a skirmish in Normandy that William had his famous encounter with Richard: hard on the heels of William's rearguard, Richard was suddenly confronted by William, who had turned and charged with lance levelled.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /sherwoodtimes/william.htm (1092 words)

	Observations upon a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry
		Moreover, it immediately precedes the depiction of Duke William proving to his men that he was still alive, which according to William of Poitiers followed the flight of the Breton foot and horse and the auxiliaries on his left wing, and was itself followed by the annihilation of several thousand of the pursuing English.
		William of Poitiers says that the fleet assembled at the mouth of the Dives and neighbouring ports, was delayed for a month by unsuitable winds, and then blown by westerlies to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme.
		One reconstruction of the coast that William found shows the bay itself with an entrance about four miles wide and penetrating inland for about six miles, while the anchorage at Bulverhythe, west of Hastings, had an entrance about two-thirds of a mile wide and a penetration of about two and a half miles.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/lawson.htm (5513 words)

	William of Poitiers
		William of Poitiers was born in Normandy in about 1030.
		Although William of Poitiers was in Lisieux during 1066, his book provides the most detailed description that we have of the Battle of Hastings.
		William of Poitiers, The Deeds of William, Duke of the Normans (c.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDpoitiers.htm (339 words)

	William of Poitiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Poitiers (population 85,000) is a small city located in west central france....
		There is a translation of the Gesta Guillelmi into modern English: The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (ISBN 0198205538).
		William of Poitiers was also the name of one of the children of Henry II of England[Click link for more facts about this topic].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_of_poitiers.htm (797 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Wi' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
		William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
		William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chattingham
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wi/index.html (104 words)

	Claim to The English Throne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The justification seems to have originated from later documents by the French chroniclers, William of Jumieges who wrote the History of the Normans in 1070 and William's biographer William of Poitiers who completed his work in 1077.
		William of Poitiers made a suggestion that Harold was never a true king of England at all because he was consecrated by Archbishop Stigand, who was the replacement in 1052 for the Norman, Robert of Jumieges, who was removed before his death under the jurisdiction of Godwin.
		Unfortunately for William, Harold had realised that this may have caused a problem, had ensured that Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, had carried out the ceremony (as he had also done for William).
	www.battle1066.com /claim.shtml (1764 words)

	History of Tattoo - Part One
		William of Poitiers who recorded the battle, noted that Harold was stripped of all regalia and could not be identified by his face, only by his body markings.
		William Dampier was born in Somerset, England and at an early age he wanted to see the world.
		William Bligh (1754-1817) was Sailing Master on Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific sailing from Plymouth, England on July the 13th 1771, and on this trip Bligh did indeed make his name by discovering the Breadfruit, gaining the nickname Breadfruit Bligh.
	www.tattoo.co.uk /history.htm (5761 words)

	William of Poitiers: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		William's Gesta Guillelmi II ducs Normannorum, the extant part of which covers the period between 1047 and 1068, is valuable for details of the Conqueror's life, although untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England.
		William of Poitiers was also the name of one of the children of Henry II of England (Henry II of England: more facts about this subject).
		See William, Count of Poitiers (William, Count of Poitiers: more facts about this subject).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/william_of_poitiers (218 words)

	WILLIAM OF POITIERS - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM OF POITIERS
		WILLIAM OF POITIERS - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM OF POITIERS
		He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, the earlier and concluding parts of which are lost; and Orderictis Vitalis, who gives a short biography of him in his Historia ecclesiastica, says that he also wrote verses.
		See G. Korting, Wilhelms van Poitiers Gesta Guilelmi ducis (Dresden, 1875); and A. Molinier, Les Sources de I'histoire de F'ance, tome iii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIAM_OF_POITIERS.htm (237 words)

	Resistance and Retribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orderic Vitalis asserts that it was at this stage that William constructed the second castle at York, with William fitz Osbern in charge.
		As winter neared it's end, William repaired his castles at York and set out across the Pennines, in rain and hail, to deal with the English rebels from the Welsh Marches and their Welsh allies.
		William of Poitiers 'Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum' by Raymonde Foreville/R. Allen Brown
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /william.htm (2823 words)

	William of Malmesbury on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY [William of Malmesbury], c.1096-1143, English writer, monk of Malmesbury.
		William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives: Lives of SS.
		William of Malmesbury: the Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta pontificum Anglorum).(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wmm1alm.asp (273 words)

	OUP: Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers: William of Poit
		William of Poitiers began his career as a knight before studying in the schools of Poitiers and entering the Church.
		He became a chaplain in the household of William the Conqueror, and was able to give a first-hand account of the events of 1066-7.
		The Gesta Guillelmi, his unfinished biography of the king, is particularly important for its detailed description of William's campaigns in Normandy, the careful preparations he made for the invasion of England, the battle of Hastings and the establishment of Norman power after the Conquest.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-820553-8 (319 words)

	THE DOMESDAY BOOK AND NANTWICH
		1066 was a difficult year for Duke William of Poitiers who thought he had been promised that he would be the next king of England.
		William divided a quarter of England among twelve of his men forming the first baronies.
		By 1086 William the Conqueror needed to know much more about the composition of England as regards to its people, estates and their sizes, livestock, values, in order to introduce a new taxation system.
	www.nantwichweb.com /history/domesday.htm (496 words)

	English and Norman Historians
		It was at this time that William of Poitiers became friends with William, Duke of Normandy.
		When William became king of England in 1066 he invited William of Poitiers to become his personal chaplain.
		William had a keen interest in history and while at the abbey read all the manuscripts he could find on the Normans.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORhistorians.htm (535 words)

	WILLIAM II. (ENGLAND) - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM II. (ENGLAND) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By Matilda, who died in Normandy on the $rd of November 1083, William had four sons, Robert, duke of Normandy, Richard, who was killed whilst hunting, and the future kings, William II.
		Of the original authorities the most important are the Gesta Willelmi, by William of Poitiers (ed.
		Thorpe, " Rolls " series, 2 vols., 1861, and also C. Plummcr, 2 vols., Oxford, 1892-1899); William of Malmesbury's De gestis regum (ed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIAM_II_ENGLAND_.htm (291 words)

	Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orderic Vitalis speaks of him as composing a poem on the Battle of Hastings, "abusing and condemning Harold but praising and exalting William," which he is said to have completed by the time he accompanied Matilda, the Conqueror's wife, to England for her coronation as queen in May 1068.
		If so, it precedes both the work of William of Jumièges and that of William of Poitiers, whose own, more obsequious, account was written between five and ten years after the battle and probably derives from it.
		But William refuses and, in a remarkable re-enactment of pagan rite, commands that the dismembered corpse be wrapped in purple linen and buried on the summit of a cliff, there to rest as guardian over sea and shore.
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/britannia/hastings/anonymous.html (1059 words)

	The University of Huddersfield
		And they gave hostages and swore oaths to him [William], and he promised them that he would be a gracious liege lord, and yet in the meantime they ravaged all that they overran.
		King William caused all England to be described: how much each of his barons possessed; and how many enfeoffed knights; and how many ploughs, villeins, animals and livestock, each one possessed in all his kingdom from the greatest to the least; and what due each estate was able to render.
		William, king of the English, to all his faithful vassals and to his sheriffs in all the shires in which the abbey of Ely holds lands, greeting.
	www.hud.ac.uk /schools/library/exams/AAH216.htm (1169 words)

	1066 and the effects of the Norman Conquest on England
		He does not explicitly say that these were the amulets which William had had with him at Hastings and which, according to William of Poitiers (3), the duke had worn around his neck, but I assume that this was the case.
		His views on the vital role of William fitz-Osbern as the brain behind the logistics of the invasion and battle predate the same opinion of Canon Wace of Bayeux.
		William of Jumieges added a brief account of the Norman Conquest to his history of the dukes of Normandy but firmly declined the possibility of writing about England after 1070; instead he promised a future sequel about William the Conqueror's son Robert Curthose.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/3532/1066mem.htm (7413 words)

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		When Stephen's son and heir apparent Eustace died in 1153 Stephen reached an accommodation with Matilda which allowed her son, Henry of Anjou, (who became Henry_II_of_EnglandHenry II) to succeed Stephen and in which peace between them was guaranteed.
		There William had to swear fealty in 1174, not as Earl but as King.
		The vow was nullified in 1189 when EnglandRichard I accepted a payment from William, needed for Richard's crusade to the Middle East, but the submission hung over the Scottish kings for some time afterwards.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Henry-II-of-England.htm (1166 words)

	Rayleigh Mount) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Robert fitzWimarch as William of Poitiers tells us, was the son of the noble women Guimara, "who was a wealthy inhabitant of those parts and a Norman by birth" (fitz / son of Wimarch appears to be a Breton name).
		Despite this insult William appears to have made his kinsman Robert, Sheriff of Essex and increased his land holdings.
		Sweyne of Essex was also possible Sheriff of Hertfordshire under William the Conqueror, and the Wimarch landholdings were greatly increased by Sweyne.
	freespace.virgin.net /vaughan.sanders/raycastle.html (634 words)

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