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As a result, the ruling houses of Europe have tended to be closely related to one another, and descent from a particular monarch will be found in many dynasties – all present European monarchs, and a great many pretenders, are genealogical descendants of William the Conqueror (1028–1087), for example, [5] and further back in time of ...
On his deathbed, William the Conqueror accorded the Duchy of Normandy to his eldest son Robert Curthose, the Kingdom of England to his son William Rufus, and money for his youngest son Henry Beauclerc for him to buy land. Thus, with William I's death on 9 September 1087, the heir to the throne was William Rufus (born 1056), third son of William I.
William the Conqueror c. 1028 –1087 King of England: Earl of Huntingdon (1st creation), 1065 Earl of Northampton (1st creation), 1071: Waltheof d. 1076 Earl of Northumbria, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Earl of Northampton: Judith of Lens 1054/1055–c. 1090, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon: Maud c. 1074 –1130 3rd Countess of Huntingdon, 2nd Countess ...
mother of William the Conqueror: King William I The Conqueror c. 1028 –1087 r. 1066–1087 King of England: Matilda of Flanders c. 1031 –1083 Queen of England: Malcolm III d. 1093 King of Scotland: Robert II Duke of Normandy c. 1054 –1134: Richard of Normandy c. 1054 – c. 1070: Adeliza of Normandy c. 1055 – before 1113: Cecilia of ...
William III & II 1650–1702 King of England and Scotland r. 1689–1702: Mary II 1662–1694 Queen of England and Scotland r. 1689–1694: Anne 1665–1714 Queen of England and Scotland, then Great Britain r. 1702–1714: George II 1683–1760 King of Great Britain r. 1727–1760: Frederick 1707–1751 Prince of Wales: George III 1738–1820
William the Conqueror [a] (c. 1028 [1] – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, [2] [b] was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo , he was Duke of Normandy (as William II ) [ 3 ] from 1035 onward.
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Breteuil (c. 1011 – 22 February 1071), was a relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. FitzOsbern was created Earl of Hereford in 1067, [a] one of the first peerage titles in the English peerage.
Rollo was the great-great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror, the progenitor of House of Normandy in England; however, Charles III and the British Royal Family are not direct male-line descendants of Rollo, as the House of Normandy ended with the death of Henry I.