King of England William Rufus was very unpopular with the Church. Unlike his father, Rufus was not a committed Christian. His father's policy of spending considerable sums of money on the Church was reversed. When Rufus needed to raise money, he raided monasteries. Austin Lane Poole has argue...
1. (Biography) known as William Rufus. ?1056–1100, king of England (1087–1100); the son of William the Conqueror. He was killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest 2. (Biography) known as William the Good. 1154–89, last Norman king of Sicily (1166–89) 3. (Biography)...
The equestrian statue of King Charles I at the top of Whitehall is one of London’s most well-known. But less well-known is the statue of the ill-fated King which can be found standing in a niche on the Temple Bar gateway, located at the entrance to Paternoster Square just outside of...
He survived for a few days, pardoning his eldest son Robert, and confirming him as his successor as the Duke of Normandy. He also freed his brother, Bishop Odo, and named his second son, William Rufus, as the next king of England....
1.a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire 2.an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th centuryad; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century ...
In 1087, King William I divided his lands between his two eldest surviving sons. Robert Curthose was to receive the Duchy of Normandy and William Rufus was to receive the Kingdom of England. Henry was to receive 5,000 pounds of silver and his mother’s English estates. After his father ...
David was born in Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Stowell, who was born in Bath, Somerset, England, and of Mary Farrow. Rufus’s great-grandmother Mary was also born in Massachusetts, and was the daughter of Nathaniel Stedman, who was born in Biddenden, Kent, England, and of Temperance....
was his inability to emulate his father by conquering England after the great king's death in 1087, and again, after William Rufus's death in 1100. ... SL Mooers - 《Journal of British Studies》 被引量: 2发表: 1981年 KING'S DREAM AND MULTICULTURALISM: A REVIEW ESSAY was his inability...
of Anskill of Abingdon, a knight and a tenant ofAbingdon Abbeyin Abingdon, England, who died following a few days of harsh treatment after being imprisoned byKing William II Rufus, King Henry I’s brother and predecessor. Juliane’s paternal grandparents wereKing William I of England (the ...
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