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William the Conqueror
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He stayed in York for eight days, and while he was there commanded that a second castle should be built outside the city – this is Baile Hill which stands across the River Ouse from Clifford's Tower. No less a personage than William ...
One of those great events in English history, which occur at distant intervals, and form, respectively, a sort of bound or landmark, to which all other events, preceding or following them for centuries, are referred, is what is called the ...
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Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert 'the Magnificent', William the Conqueror's life is set against his true background, the turbulent Norman Duchy which, even after the Conquest of England, remained his primary ...
William I of England better known as William the Conqueror, was Duke of Normandy from 1035 and King of England from 1066 to his death.