william the conqueror

     

William I of Englan (1027 – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (French: Guillaume le Conquérant), was Duke of Normandy from 1035 and King of England from 1066 to his death.

Trivia about william the conqueror

  • On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse
  • The history of the Tower of London goes back to the fortress built by this conqueror
  • It's believed that Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of this conqueror, commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry
  • This Norman lord was probably promised the English crown in 1051, but only took it 15 years later
  • Henry I's famous father was this conqueror who reigned from 1066 to 1087
  • This conqueror's half-brother Odo, bishop of Bayeux, probably commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry
  • This English "conqueror" was crowned in London on Christmas Day, 1066
  • c. 1028Falaise, Normandy
  • The only king of England named Stephen was the grandson of this conqueror
  • Landing at Sussex, his forces invaded Britain by sea on September 28, 1066
  • In French this King of England is called Guillaume le Conquerant
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.) This duke is about to mount his charger; he is the only figure to wear armored leggings & shirt; the ribbons at his neck also identify him
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London) The oldest part of the Tower of London, the White Tower, was begun more than 900 years ago by this conqueror
  • The Bayeux Tapestry is a graphic representation of this man's conquest of England
  • Malcolm III, also called Canmore, or Big Head, promised loyalty to this conqueror in 1072
  • On Sept. 9, 1087 this Norman stopped stormin' after being thrown from his horse at the Battle of Mantes
  • Queen Matilda, the wife of this Norman conqueror, was just 4' 2" tall
  • 1066:He's crowned king of England
  • This stormin' Norman spent more than a third of his English reign out of the country & in fact died in Rouen in 1087
  • Alas, poor York! It was burned by this new ruler of England in the 11th century
  • Ealdred, archbishop of York, died in 1069, a few years after crowning this Norman in Westminster Abbey
  • In 1066 this great-great grandson of Rollo made what some call the last Viking invasion of England
  • He was the last of the 3 men who were king of England during 1066
  • On Christmas Day 1066, he was crowned King of England, 72 days after defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings
  • Born in what's now France, he fathered William Rufus & Henry I
  • The devil you say! He inherited the title "Duke of Normandy" from his dad Robert the Devil in 1035
  • In 1078 this king built the Tower of London's White Tower out of stone from his home region of Normandy
  • This monarch was born in Falaise in the Normandy region of France around 1027
  • York suffered severely during this man's conquest of Northern England in the 1060s
  • Falaise, Normandyc. 1028

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