When William was a young boy he had many obstacles to overcome. When William was eight his father died returning from a pilgrimage of Jerusalem. When his father died William became Duke of Normandy in 1035. When this happened many lords in Normandy didn’t approve of him ruling them in 1040 they tried to kill William the plan failed but Williams guardian ( Gilbert of Brionne) was killed. In 1042 the King knighted William. William, still in his teens, took a new stand on political events and finally gained firm control of his duchy ( although some of his enemies referred to him as “The Bastard” due to his illegitimate birth). But once again in 1047 the lords in Western Normandy tried to kill William but failed again. These two incidents taught
William Still was a free man who chose to help slaves get their freedom. He was an aferican American who lived in Philadelphia and had many slaves arrive from Maryland. He helped some slaves that arrived to him find jobs and homes but he contimuned some on the journey to Canada because if the runaway slaves were caught, they could be sent back to their owners even if they were in a free state. He keep some records of these but he had to be extremely careful in keeping these records so he didn’t get caught or get the slaves he helped
William was a good king. I strongly believe that William was a good king, mainly because he had won many wars for his nation and had given them pride and land to live,work on and rule. Even though that he had raised the taxes really often it was for a good cause, like buy metals and other building material for military purposes or just for building houses for the serfs and their landowners. William was in his time,winning all his wars and bring fame upon his name. He was a good leader and protector for his people because all the invasions that were held in his domain he had successfully held them of and won.
Due to Williams death plot of his lands were distributed between his eldest son, Robert who took control of Normandy, and his second son, William Rufus, becoming king of England. William Rufus succeeded in quelling the uprising and the treats of his elder brother and retained his title as
Many different factors contributed to William’s win; however, I believe that the most important was strategy. I believe that tactics were the most important because the Normans would not have won if they didn’t lure the English away from their position on top of the hill To me the second most important factor of William’s success was skill as, had William’s army not been skillful, their attack would not have been as effective because the archers were there to soften
Edward 1V announced (on his death bed) that his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was to be the Lord Protector until Edward,
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Peterborough MS) William died early on the morning of September 9, 1087. He was fifty-nine years old and had ruled England for twenty-one years and Normandy for thirty-one more. There are two accounts of his death: the nearly contemporary De Obitu Willelmi by an anonymous monk of Caen, where the king was buried, and the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis, which, even though it was written some sixty-five years later, is the more reliable. In Book VII, Orderic recounts William 's death and burial.
The horn sounded again and the riders were off, dust blowing up behind the pounding hooves of the beasts they rode. The jousting spears were aimed, the shields a protective aegis arranged, the men ducked down ready for impact, and then, at the last moment, Bertram shifted his aim in an attempt to obfuscate and strike Alane. Their lances met head on instead with Alane’s devious perspicacity paying off , and they threw each other off balance, both men to falling to the ground in a plume of amorphous dust. The crowd, such altruistic folk, leapt to their feet to make sure each man was unhurt. Bewildered, the knights lie on the ground for several seconds, stuck in ephemeral awe of being possibly defeated by the other, before jumping to their feet.
In 1066, William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson’s armies fought in the Battle of Hastings to determine if Harold could retain the title of King of England. Many reasons intervened, mostly playing in William’s favour; however William’s strength did play a very important part. The first reason why William won is that he was exceptionally lucky. When the wind changed, it allowed him to cross over the channel whilst Harold was still luckily in the North.
This type of ruling system seems as if it were set up to fail from the start. Giving land and some power to vassals is risky; control would be hard to maintain. Somehow, the monarchy found a way to keep them in check and it worked for a long time. The ingenious way they were able to keep order was through war. King William was able to keep his vassals in check due to his show of strength (source 1).
The main notice of King Arthur is in the History of the Britons, penned in 830, and ascribed to a creator called Nennius. He composes: At that point in those days Arthur battled against them with the lords of the Britons, however he was commandant in those fights. A more expound story of King Arthur occurred in the eleventh century, when Geoffrey of Monmouth distributed his book The History of the Kings of Britain. Arthur 's whole life is illustrated without precedent for this work, right from his introduction to the world at Tintagel, to his demise, and the unbelievable figures of Guinevere and Merlin are presented.
During the Early Modern Era amongst the English nobility, violence became more restrained, as it was principally limited to the “formal” arena of dueling. The Duel succeeded in diverting nobility from unrestrained fraction warfare with armed gangs, of pervious centuries. However, while private warfare amongst the nobility was down it is difficult to determine exact statistics of Aristocratic violence because in most instances both went unreported.
Hamlet, one of the world’s most popular revenge tragedies, is a play written between 1599 and 1601 by renown playwright William Shakespeare. It tells a story of the royal family of Denmark plagued by corruption and schism. Prince Hamlet, the protagonist, embarks on a journey of incessant brooding and contemplation on whether to avenge his father’s death. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, at the end of Act 2, Scene 2, he asks himself, ‘Am I a coward?’ (II.ii.523) after failing to carry out revenge.
Throughout the book William never gave up, and part of that reason was that he never let criticism get to him. He just used it as motive to work
In 1051AD, Harold’s dad, Godwin of Wessex, formed an army against Edward and was defeated, causing his whole family to be exiled. In 1052AD, Godwin created another army against Edward, forcing Edward to restore the Godwin family as he could not form an army. Harold claimed that, on his deathbed, Edward promised his kingdom to Harold. Since Harold was the closest ‘heir’ geographically, the kingdom was given to him. Much before becoming King, in 1064AD, he shipwrecked in Normandy and he swore to William, Duke of Normandy that he would help him become King.