_Richard II de NORMANDY _+
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_Robert "the Magnificent" de NORMANDY _|
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|--William the Conqueror BEAUCLERC
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William the Conqueror, 1027?-1087, king of England (1066-87). known to his contemporaries as "the bastard" Earnest and resourceful, William was not only one of the greatest of English monarchs but a pivotal figure in European history as well. Duke of
Normandy
The illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, and Arletta, daughter of a tanner, he is sometimes called William the Bastard. He succeeded to the dukedom on his father's death in 1035. He was grandson from Rollo the Viking who signed a treaty in
911 with Charles the Simple of France, giving Norseman permanent land rights for that which they had seized the century before. William and his guardians were hard pressed to keep down recurrent rebellions during his minority, and at least once the
young duke barely escaped death.
In 1047, with the aid of Henry I of France, he solidly established his power. 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. Despite a
papal prohibition, William married Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, count of Flanders, in 1053. The union, which greatly increased the duke's prestige, did not receive papal dispensation until 1059.
William's growing power brought him into conflict with King Henry of France, whose invading armies he defeated in 1054 and 1058. The accession (1060) of the child Philip I of France, whose guardian was William's father-in-law, improved his position,
and in 1063 William conquered the county of Maine. Soon afterward Harold Godwinson, then earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the French coast and was turned over to William, who apparently extracted Harold's oath to support the duke's interests in
England.
The Norman Conquest
Upon hearing that Harold had been crowned (1066) king of England (Saxony), William secured the sanction of the pope, raised an army and transport fleet, sailed for England with 8000 men, and defeated and slew Harold at the battle of Hastings (1066),
Harold just having returned from a march north and fierce battle with invading vikings and a march south. Overcoming what little resistance remained in SE England, he led his army to London, received the city's submission, and was crowned king on
Christmas Day.
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. The English, however, did not so readily accept him as their king.
A series of rebellions broke out, and William suppressed them harshly, ravaging great sections of the country. Titles to the lands of the now decimated native nobility were called in and redistributed on a strictly feudal basis (see feudalism), to the
king's Norman followers. By 1072 the adherents of Edgar Atheling and their Scottish and Danish allies had been defeated and the military part of the Norman Conquest virtually completed. In the only major rebellion that came thereafter (1075), the chief
rebels were Normans, led by his half brother Odo.
Later Reign
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.
In 1085-86 at his orders a survey of England was taken, the results of which were embodied in the Domesday Book. By the Oath of Salisbury in 1086, William established the important precedent that loyalty to the king is superior to loyalty to any
subordinate feudal lord of the kingdom. William fought with his factious son Robert II, duke of Normandy, in 1079 and quarreled intermittently with France from 1080 until his death. He invaded the French Vexin in 1087, was fatally injured in a riding
accident, and died at Rouen, directing that his son Robert should succeed him in Normandy and his son William (William II) in England.
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intervened in the affairs of Flanders, and supported Edward the Confessor, then in exile at Robert's court. He also sponsored monastic reform in Normandy. After making his illegitimate son William his heir, he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died at
Nicaea. Robert the Devil, hero of a medieval legend. He was sold to the devil by his mother before his birth but upon discovering the fact did penance and was able to purify himself of his many sins. The tale may have been derived from the life of
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