William the Conqueror

Duke of Normandy, King of England

c. 1028 – 1087 · 59 years · London · Europe

Reign: 1066 – 1087 (England and Britain)

Norman duke who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and conquered England.

Portrait: Myrabella · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

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Philip I — son of Anne of Kiev, excommunicated for bigamy, 24 years younger
Henry I — king who married Anne of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, 20 years older
William II Rufus — the Conqueror's son, killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, 28 years younger
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