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  1. 5 days ago · William the Conqueror (c. 1028 – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 onward.

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      Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry...

    • Adeliza

      Adeliza or Adelida (died before 1113) was a daughter of...

    • Battle of Hastings

      The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between...

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  2. 4 days ago · Polities. By county. By city or town. England portal. v. t. e. The Glorious Revolution [a] is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew.

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  4. 2 days ago · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his ...

  5. 4 days ago · William the Aetheling (born 1103—died November 25, 1120, at sea off Barfleur, France) was an Anglo-Norman prince, the only son of Henry I of England and recognized duke of Normandy (as William IV, or as William III if the earlier claim of his uncle, William Rufus, is not acknowledged). He succeeded his uncle, the imprisoned Duke Robert II Curthose.

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  6. Apr 5, 2024 · Patrick Sarsfield (born, Lucan, County Dublin, Ire.—died August 1693, Huy, Austrian Netherlands) was a Jacobite soldier who played a leading role in the Irish Roman Catholic resistance (1689–91) to England’s King William III. Sarsfield remains a favourite hero of the Irish national tradition.

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  7. Mar 29, 2024 · William of Ockham (born c. 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria [now in Germany]) was a Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer, a late scholastic thinker regarded as the founder of a form of nominalism —the school of thought that denies that universal concepts such as “father” have any reality apart from th...

  8. Apr 7, 2024 · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. Thursday, 27 July 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.

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