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2 days ago · One factor in William's favour was his marriage to Matilda of Flanders, the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders. The union was arranged in 1049, but Pope Leo IX forbade the marriage at the Council of Rheims in October 1049.
- William II of England
William's exact date of birth is not known, but according to...
- Edgar Ætheling
Edgar was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, where his father...
- Robert The Magnificent
Robert I of Normandy (22 June 1000 – July 1035), also known...
- Herleva
The three sons of Herleva of Falaise: William, Duke of...
- Adela
Adela of Normandy, of Blois, or of England (c. 1067 – 8...
- Edward The Confessor
Edward the Confessor [a] [b] (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was...
- Robert Curthose
Robert was the eldest son of William the Conqueror, the...
- Henry I of England
Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry...
- Adeliza
Adeliza or Adelida (died before 1113) [1] was a daughter of...
- Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings [a] was fought on 14 October 1066...
- William II of England
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2 days ago · Contemporary historian Ralph de Diceto traced his family's lineage through Matilda of Scotland to the Anglo-Saxon kings of England and Alfred the Great, and from there legend linked them to Noah and Woden.
2 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen of ...
2 days ago · The Burgundians, the Low Country empire that time forgot. In the Middle Ages, Burgundy was a fabulously wealthy realm that spread over a huge swathe of medieval Europe, eventually seating their power in modern Belgium and the Netherlands. While it has long vanished from the map, it was a cradle for art and architecture, as well as violence and ...
2 days ago · It is a source of wonder that the two soaring geniuses who created Early Modern English both came from small towns near the Welsh border, both were called William, and both wrote with such effortless beauty that they forged English into a tongue to compete with French, Italian, German, and Spanish. But there the similarity ends.
5 days ago · William II, the future king of England (r. 1087-1100), is born to parents William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. 1066: Battle of Fulford: English forces were defeated by Norse invaders in northeastern England. Battle of Stamford Bridge: the remaining Norse under Harald Hardrada defeated by the bulk of England's army under the command of ...
1 day ago · Henry VIII: July 1541, 1-10 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 16, 1540-1541 . Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.
