Category: History - European
The original of this picture, now lost, was painted by an artist when the tomb of the Conqueror was opened in 1522. A copy executed in 1708, is preserved in the sacristy of St Etienne’s Church at Caen; the present illustration is from a photograph of that copy.
The eventful life of the Conqueror was within two years of its close when he decreed the compilation of that record which was to be the lasting monument of his rule in England....
2. CHAPTER XIIThe original of this picture, now lost, was painted by an artist when the tomb of the Conqueror was opened in 1522. A copy executed in 1708, is preserved in the sacristy of St E...
9. CHAPTER VICatastrophic as the battle of Hastings seems to us now, in view of the later history, its decisive character was not recognised at once by the national party. The very incoheren...
14. CHAPTER XIThe art of government in the eleventh century was still a simple, or at least an untechnical, matter. It demanded rather a strong will in the sovereign than professional knowled...
10. CHAPTER VIIThe year 1068 had closed under a specious appearance of peace, and the only result of the revolts of Exeter and York had been a proof of the futility of isolated resistance to a...
11. CHAPTER VIIIThe conquest of England had exalted William of Normandy to a position of dignity and influence far above all his fellow-vassals of the French crown, it had renewed the lustre of...
7. CHAPTER IVThe idea of a Norman conquest of England was no new thing when the actual blow fell in the autumn of 1066. The fateful marriage of Ethelred and Emma, sixty years before, had mad...
3. CHAPTER IAmong the famous stories which enliven the history of the early dukes of Normandy there stands out prominently the tale of the romantic circumstances which led to the birth of D...
12. CHAPTER IXWith the peace of Blanchelande we enter upon the last phase in the life of William the Conqueror, and this although more than the half of his English reign still lay in the futu...
13. CHAPTER XUp to the present we have only dealt with the ecclesiastical relations of William the Conqueror in so far as they have directly affected political issues. But the subject has a...
4. CHAPTER IIBetween the first Angevin war and the outbreak of overt hostilities between Normandy and France, there occurs a period of five or six years the historical interest of which lies...
8. CHAPTER VThe spring and summer of 1066 must have been a time of restless activity on the part of William and of those who were associated with him in the preparations for the great enter...
6. CHAPTER IIIBy a curious synchronism both King Henry of France and Count Geoffrey Martel died in the course of the year 1060; and, with the disappearance of his two chief enemies of the old...
5. Chapter IV., in its bearing upon the general question of the EnglishPage 97. On this question there is a conflict of evidence William of Jumièges, whose authority is only second to that of William of Poitiers, definitely asserts Geoffrey’s parti...
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