William the Conqueror

For a later analogy, consider Duke William of Normandy, better known as William the Conqueror, who was the illegitimate son of the duke by a woman of comparatively low rank, sometimes described as a tanner’s daughter.

Cadafael, King of Gwynedd Carla 2009

For a later analogy, consider Duke William of Normandy, better known as William the Conqueror, who was the illegitimate son of the duke by a woman of comparatively low rank, sometimes described as a tanner’s daughter.

Archive 2009-04-01 Carla 2009

In the late eleventh century they fled to the forests of the March from the invaders who routed Rhi Bran y Hud and his loyal Grellen fighters from their home Elfael; William the Conqueror gave their land to Abbot Hugo.

Tuck-Stephen Lawhead « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

Beyond the fields of the farm stretched the gorse-strewn heath of the New Forest, which in turn gave way to the richly wooded acres that had been hunted by the kings of England since before William Rufus the Red, the son of William the Conqueror, lost his life to an ill-aimed arrow.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

Page 528, Volume 2 the conquest of England by William the Conqueror and its circumstances, represented on the so-called

ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

In the old days we used to begin English history with William the Conqueror; since Freeman wrote his five thick volumes and proved -- not that the Norman Conquest was unimportant -- but that it did not involve a breach of continuity, a new start in national life, the pendulum has swung too much the other way, and the tendency of late years has been to underestimate the importance of the Norman Conquest.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

One hears for instance of a castle being built by William the Conqueror in eight days.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

Normans under William the Conqueror - Guillaume was his real name - took over what would one day become the U.K.

Thestar.com - Home Page Oakland Ross 2011

Normans under William the Conqueror - Guillaume was his real name - took over what would one day become the U.K.

Thestar.com - Home Page Oakland Ross 2011

In London, William the Conqueror put up the White Tower, the foundation of the Tower of London, which was the biggest building in the city since the Romans left.

The Guardian World News 2011