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William Rufus   /wˈɪljəm rˈufəs/   Listen
William Rufus

noun
1.
The second son of William the Conqueror who succeeded him as King of England (1056-1100).  Synonym: William II.






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... see chronicles of Raoul Glaber, Guillaume de Nangis, William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, Ordericus Vitalis, et al., passim, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (in the Rolls Series). For very thrilling pictures of this horror in England, see Freeman, Norman Conquest, vol. iii, pp. 640-644, and William Rufus, vol. ii, p. 118. For the Bayeau tapestry, see Bruce, Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, plate vii and p. 86; also Guillemin, World of Comets, p. 24. There is a large photographic copy, in the South Kensington Museum at London, of the ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White



Words linked to "William Rufus" :   King of Great Britain, King of England



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