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	William I of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		4 Children of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders
		Children of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders
		William was born the grandnephew of Queen Emma, wife of King Ethelred the Unready and later of King Canute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_the_Conqueror

	William I, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		William is said to have visited England in 1051 or 1052, when his cousin Edward the Confessor probably promised that William would succeed him as king of England.
		Although William immediately began to build and garrison castles around the country, he apparently hoped to maintain continuity of rule; many of the English nobility had fallen at Hastings, but most of those who survived were permitted to keep their lands for the time being.
		William undertook church reform, appointed Lanfranc archbishop of Canterbury, substituted foreign prelates for many of the English bishops, took command over the administration of church affairs, and established (1076) separate ecclesiastical courts.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wi/Will1Eng.html

	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.
		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.
		The repudiation of this oath by Harold at the Confessor's death enabled William to assume the character of an avenger of perjury.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15642c.htm

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		In 1047, William reasserted himself in the eastern Norman regions and, with the aid of France's King Henry I, crushed the rebelling barons.
		William, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy, spent his first six years with his mother in Falaise and received the duchy of Normandy upon his father's death in 1035.
		Edward the Confessor attempted to gain Norman support while fighting with his father-in-law, Earl Godwin, by purportedly promising the throne to William in 1051.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon22.html

	William the Conqueror
		William or his advisers may have begun to weigh this chance very early; but all that is really certain is that William was a friend and favourite of his elder kinsman, and that events finally brought his succession to the English crown within the range of things that might be.
		William, by ingeniously mixing all kinds of irrelevant issues, contrived to remove the dispute from the region of municipal into that of international law, a law whose chief representative was the Bishop of Rome.
		William's work was to claim the crown of which he was unjustly deprived, and withal to deal out a righteous chastisement on the unrighteous and ungodly man by whom he had been deprived of it.
	www.blackmask.com /olbooks/wilcon.htm

	History of the Monarchy > The Normans > William I
		William's claim to the English throne was based on his assertion that, in 1051, Edward the Confessor had promised him the throne (he was a distant cousin) and that Harold II- having sworn in 1064 to uphold William's right to succeed to that throne - was therefore a usurper.
		William's wholesale confiscation of land from English nobles and their heirs (many nobles had died at the battles of Stamford Bridge and Senlac) enabled him to recruit and retain an army, by demanding military duties in exchange for land tenancy granted to Norman, French and Flemish allies.
		William bequeathed Normandy as he had promised to his eldest son Robert, despite their bitter differences (Robert had sided with his father's enemies in Normandy, and even wounded and defeated his father in a battle there in 1079).
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page18.asp

	William the Conqueror
		Williams cousin was king Edward the Confessor of England, and William used his considerable political and diplomatic skills to get Edward to appoint him the heir to the English throne in 1051.
		William was able to do this because he not only conquered the country outright, but replaced the nobility with his own men.
		But William was able to defeat these attempts in 1054 and 1058, adding to his military stature in the process.
	www.hyw.com /books/history/William_.htm

	BBC - History - William I, William the Conqueror (c.1028 - 1087)
		William developed an ambition to become his kinsman's heir, encouraged by Edward, who possibly even promised him the throne in 1051.
		The illegitimate son of Robert I of Normandy, William became Duke of Normandy on his father's death in 1035.
		Abroad, William was threatened by an alliance of Philip I of France and William's son, Robert Curthose.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/william_i_king.shtml

	Battle of Hastings
		William is said to have fallen on the beach, grasped the sand, and declared "This is my country" or words to that effect.
		William and FitzOsborn scouted the land He was unhappy with the terrain but it had proved to be a satisfactory landing beach.
		William, with total mobility, held his Breton, Maine and Anjou contingents to the left of the line, the Normans the main thrust, the Flemish and French to his right.
	www.infokey.com /hall/hastings.htm

	Kings of England
		William's rival, Edgar Atheling, was supported by some of the leading men for a short time, but they all made sub mission to William at Berkhampstead, and on the following Christmas-day he was crowned at Westminster by Aldred, archbishop of York, a riot occurring, in which some lives were lost and some houses burnt.
		Prince William Henry was present with Admiral Rodney at the capture of the Caraccas fleet, commanded by Don Juan Langara.
		Early in 1067 William went to Normandy, leaving the government of his new dominions in the hands of Odo, bishop of Bayeux, and William Fitz-Osbern.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/royalty/kingw.html

	Royalty.nu - English Royal History - The Private Life of William the Conqueror
		William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England by David C. Douglas.
		King William I of England-- better known as William the Conqueror -- was born in 1027 or 1028.
		Written by a priest who served in William the Conqueror's court.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Norman/WilliamI.html

	William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest of England
		William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest of England
		William the Conqueror was an innovator in government.
		William's response was the ferocious "Harrying of the North" (1069-70), which devastated the land in a broad swath from York to Durham.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/William_the_Conqueror.htm

	William the Conqueror
		William was furious and on mounted an attack on the king's territory.
		In 1053 William married Matilda of Flanders, the daughter of Count Baldwin of Flanders.
		William also managed to enlist the support of the Pope in his campaign to gain the throne of England.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDwilliam1.htm

	Amazon.com: Books: William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England
		William the Conqueror-Duke William II of Normandy, King William I of England- was born at Falaise in 1027 or 1028, and probably during the autumn of the latter year.
		William the Conqueror overcame enormous odds and political challenges to succeed his father as Duke of Normandy and his cousin, Edward the Confessor, as King of England.
		William was able to overcome (what I feel to be) more than insurmountable odds at the beginning of his rule to change the entire face and future of the English monarchy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520003500?v=glance

	William the Conqueror
		William the Conqueror was nearing 60 and well past his prime in 1087.
		William's mount grew skittish as it approached the burning town of Mantes, and the portly monarch was thrown forward onto the pommel of his saddle, causing internal injuries.
		William was to be interred in the church.
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blwilliamtheconqueror

	History House: William the Conqueror
		William the Conqueror, the Norman hero of 1066 was so fat at his death that his body burst at his funeral!
		William died at daybreak on September 9, in his 60th year, and was buried in rather unseemly fashion in St. Stephen's Church, which he had built at Caen.
		Perhaps a little more than we needed to know, but, there it is. While still on the topic of William, we should note that his coronation was in the still brand spankin' new (in 1066!) Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day.
	historyhouse.com /in_history/william

	William the Conqueror, Norman Impact and the Battle of Hastings:
		William the Conqueror, Norman Impact and the Battle of Hastings:
		William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England
		Royal Faces: From William the Conqueror to the Present Day
	www.omega23.com /tqk/William_the_Conqueror.html

	The Domesday Book Online - William the Conqueror
		When William was born in 1027/28, Robert was Count of Hiesmois; he acceded to the title Duke of Normandy in 1028.
		William's father was Robert I, sixth Duke of Normandy.
		Duke Robert I (William's father) dies in Bithynia; accession of William as Duke William II of Normandy, aged 7
	www.domesdaybook.co.uk /william.html

	King William the Conqueror Descendants
		This article outlines the ancestry of William the Conqueror and describes the line of descent from him to us.
		William Nicholas was buried at Llansoy on 1 June 1623 and his wife, Catherine, was buried there on 7 January 1629/30.
		At the age of seven, William succeeded his father as Duke William II of Normandy, when Robert died in early July 1035 at Bythinian Nicaea in Asia Minor while returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
	www.family-history.com /KingWilliamdescent.htm

	William I, king of England
		William the Conqueror - William the Conqueror: see William I, king of England.
		William I, king of England: Duke of Normandy- Duke of Normandy The illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, and Arletta, daughter of a...
		Earnest and resourceful, William was not only one of the greatest of English monarchs but a pivotal figure in European history as well.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0852295.html

	Primogeniture
		So dominating a figure was William as military leader, political organizer, and defender of the church that the Norse-Gallic invaders who formed his court hoped to have their new land controlled forever by the blood (genetic) descendants of William and Mathilda, their newly formed royal family.
		Little is known of William's first two sons, but his third son an namesake, William 11, called Rufus for his red hair, was the first eldest son of an English monarch to establish primogeniture as the rule of succession.
		Two years into his kingship he invaded France in 1415, and, against tremendous odds won the battle of Agincourt, and applying some conqueror's pressure, married the French princess and had the promise of her father, King Charles Vl, that a son of theirs would be crowned king of France as well as of England.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /primogen.htm

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		From its earliest structural beginnings by its founder William I of England better known as William the Conqueror 1066-87, the Great Tower or White Tower as it later came to be called was fast becoming the most talked-about building in England.
		Within three months of his victory William the Conqueror had begun to build a castle on the north bank of the river Thames in London.
		Beginning life as a simple timber and earth enclosure tucked in the south-east angle formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta, the original structure was completed by the addition of a ditch and palisade along the north and west sides.
	www.camelotintl.com /tower_site/history

	Willy - William the Conqueror - General Patton's Dog
		He was named Willie, short for "William the Conqueror." Willie was devoted to General Patton and followed him everywhere.
		Willy - William the Conqueror - General Patton's Dog
		He bought the first of many bull terriers just after World War I for his daughters, Beatrice and Ruth Ellen, and named him Tank.
	www.pattonhq.com /willie.html

	Medieval Times
		Dear sirs, William the Conqueror was not born in 1066.
		William the Conqueror lived in England in the Middle Ages.
		When William The Conqueror died his eldest son became Duke of Normandy and his next son, King of England.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /elanorah/Medwill.htm

	Medieval Sourcebook: Laws of William the Conqueror
		Here is set down what William, king of the English, established in consultation with his magnates after the conquest of England:
		We decree also that every freeman shall affirm by oath and compact that he will be loyal to king William both within and without England, that he will preserve with him his lands and honor with all fidelity and defend him against his enemies.
		First that above all things he wishes one God to be revered throughout his whole realm, one faith in Christ to be kept ever inviolate, and peace and security to be preserved between English and Normans.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/will1-lawsb.html

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: William the Conqueror
		Buy William the Conqueror with The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty...
		William the Conqueror (Yale English Monarchs S.); Paperback ~ Frank Barlow (Foreword), David C. Douglas
		Subjects > History > Britain & Ireland > British Heads of State > William the Conqueror
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752429604

	William the Conqueror - E.A. Freeman - Microsoft Reader eBook
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	English Royal History -- The Private Life of William the Conqueror
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		English Royal History -- The Private Life of William the Conqueror
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	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		Eleanor of Normandy (aunt of William the Conqueror)
		Odo, Earl of Kent (half-brother of William the Conqueror)
		Alice of Normandy (aunt of William the Conqueror)
	www.camelot-names.co.uk /cgi-bin/person?c=11 (183 words)

	Welcome to WWW.BeMentFamily.Com
		WILLIAM I, called The Conqueror (1027-87), first Norman king of England (1066-87), who has been called one of the first modern kings and is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in western European history.
		He was the grandson of King William I (the Conqueror) and nephew of Henry I. In 1125 Stephen swore fidelity to Henry's daughter Matilda, to succeed her father to the throne.
		MATILDA, Queen of England, from 1066-1083, wife of William I, King of England, (aka, William The Conqueror) was the daughter of Baudouin V, Count of Flanders (France), and the sixth in descent from Elfrida, daughter of Alfred the Great.
	www.bementfamily.com /report3b.htm (16791 words)

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