William the Conqueror

William Duke of Normandy lived in Falaise in Normandy in France.

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This tells you why he invaded England and all the basic details and other information as well.

Immigration : the gentler term for invasion?

Yes Duke William of Normandy and 1 of England was very religious by the standards of the time that is he built an abbey after his success in the battle of Hastings to which he carried a pennant given by the Pope as a blessing. The Abbey is called Battle and is still in use. He also built a lot of churches and cathedrals as at Caen and made sure to be crowned in Westminster Abbey which his cousin Edward had just finished building before he died. Nor did he usurp the authority of the Pope as his sucessors tried to: he was pretty busy anyway putting up castles like the Tower of London to fortify his position and parcelling out land as baronies to Normans as well as quelling a couple of rebellions and supervising the Domesday book to check how much land or livestock the people had as assets he could tax them on. All this and commuting to Normandy did not leave him much time for sin though it is said he asked forgiveness on his deathbed which was in his duchy and he was buried in Rouen cathedral.

After the battle of hastings saxon people were enslaved into what could only be called black slavery. they were also put through hell from William of Normandy e.g the harrying of the north were William got all live stock and weat etc and burnt it all. The battle of hastings had a great effect on the way the british lived, when William the congueror won the battle of hasting the french brought over many different rules that the engligh must follow for instance the french made engligh talk french, brought the laws and way of life over, the engligh found this hard to live with because of the french had such a different was of living to the English.

September 9th, 1087. and his death was not a great one either. At his funeral, all his belongings were stolen by thieves. They tried to bury him in too small of a casket and his bloated body exploded.

Because he thought that the throne was promised to him by Edward the Confesser .He was also very close to Edward and he grew up with him

Yes he did. He had 2 brothers who were Oden of Conteville, Robert Count of Mostain and a 1 sister who was Adelaide of Normandy.

a ha. No, seriously, it was in Westminster Abbey.

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• In his fifty year career, Duke Ellington played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as Asia,

• Duke Ellington composed more than 2000 pieces of music,

• Duke Ellington received 13 Grammy Awards,

• Duke Ellington received the Pulitzer Prize,

• President Lyndon Johnson presented Duke Ellington with the Presidents Gold Medal in 1966,

• Was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1973,

• Has a United States Commemorative stamp with his image on it issued in 1986,

• Received Honorary Doctorates from Howard and Yale Universities,

• His real name was Edward Kennedy Ellington, but he was named Duke because of his refined manners and bearing, and the name was givin to him by a adorring classmate,

• As a child, Duke hated his piano lessons so later he quit. But when he became a teenager, and took up piano again because he wanted to impress a girl, back then people who played instruments were "cool" .

• Because the former king promised him the throne.
• Because his family was rich and wealthy
• he had never lost a battle and it was important to be strong
• he sorted out things like crime
• he claimed to be Edwards (previous king) cousin
• He was a duke of Normandy so he was an experienced leader

He died on 9 September 1087 from injuries received when he fell off his horse at the Siege of Mantes.

William had built ships to carry his force - great store of weapons - came back to fight - William arranged his army in rows - Made a wall of shields - Effective Weapons - Fighting Uphill :(

William defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD.

he had 2 wifes and his nickname was William the bastard wich ment he had a mum and dad but they werent married

No they aren't.

William Wallace was a Scot who fought for the freedom of Scotland from England and Edward Longshanks starting in 1297. He was the second of three sons of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie. His early education came from a uncle who was a priest of Dunipace. In 1298 Edward invaded Scotland with 88,000 men and Wallace fought him at Falkirk on July 22 where his infantry was shot down by the English. Wallace was arrested on August 3, 1305 and taken to London where he was hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered.

William the Conqueror was born at Falaise and was the bastard son of Robert III, Duke of Normandy. He became duke when is father died in 1035. In 1064 Harold came to William's court to promise him the English crown upon the death of Edward. However when Edward died in 1066 Harold took the crown for himself so William claimed the crown and went to the pope to be approved. The pope approved it and on Oct. 14, 1066 William defeated Harold at Hastings and William was crowned December 25.

I noticed that there were some very intelligent people answering here. Three eventual consequences were marked by

1.) The ending of Feudalism. Which was both the social and economic system of the Middle Ages. 2.) The beginning of centralized government throughout England 3.) Last but not least, it also started the development of a democracy there.

The Norman conquest brought a lot of French and Scandinavian term (words) to the English language. It also imposed word order to the language that Anglo-Saxon didn't have.

William's soldiers galloped away from Harold's soldiers during battle. Harold thought that he had won, but obviously not! They came back round to them and won the battle! They killed Harold's soldiers.

I think that william was a good but bad king because he gave everyone some land but he was a bad king because Peasants had little freedom.They had to carry out lots of duties for the knights and to be loyal to William in return for pretection.