William's children were still fighting over the collective Anglo-Norman inheritance.

Although the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes marked a turning point in William's control of the duchy, it was not the end of his struggle to gain the upper hand over the nobility.

Henry's volte-face was probably motivated by a desire to retain dominance over Normandy, which was now threatened by William's growing mastery of his duchy.

William of Poitiers describes a council called by Duke William, in which the writer gives an account of a great debate that took place between William's nobles and supporters over whether to risk an invasion of England.

The immediate consequence of William's death was a war between his sons Robert and William over control of England and Normandy.

Edgar recognised William's authority over Lothian and attended William's court.

William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the Orange Order.

Johan de Witt took over William's education in 1666.

What was celebrated on " The Twelfth " was not William's " victory over Popery at the Battle of the Boyne ", but the extermination of the elite of the Catholic Irish at Aughrim, thereby ending the fear of having to surrender the planted lands.

Although William's main rivals were gone, he still faced a number of rebellions over the following years, and it was not until after 1072 that he was secure on his throne.

The division and control of these lands after William's death proved problematic and his children fought multiple wars over the spoils.

Sometime around 1806, Martha Ogle and her brother, Peter Huskey, along with her daughter, Rebecca and her husband, James McCarter made the journey over the Indian Gap Trail to what is now Gatlinburg, where William's notched logs awaited them.

With William's health deteriorating ( himself estimating he had but a short time to live ), and with the Earl's undoubted influence over his successor Princess Anne, the King decided that Marlborough should take centre stage in European affairs.

In this he was successful at the same council which witnessed his third victory over Berengar ( 1059 ), and he thus acquired a lasting claim on William's gratitude.

In return for Frederick William's renunciation of the Swedish-Prussian alliance, John Casimir recognised Frederick William's full sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia.

The archbishop had planned to install canons regular into the church, and on William's deathbed dispatched a party of canons from Merton Priory to take over St Martin's.

Following William's death, Warwick Castle passed through seven generations of the Beauchamp family, who over the next 180 years were responsible for most of the additions made to the castle.

He has been known to take over in William's absence and is his best friend.

Prince William's aunt Queen Elisabeth of Romania, on learning that the Great Powers were looking for a prince to rule over Albania, asked Take Ionescu to attempt to persuade them to appoint her nephew to the post.

As a protest against this piece, Aaron Barschak ( who later gate-crashed Prince William's 21st birthday party dressed as Osama bin Laden in a frock ) threw a pot of red paint over Jake Chapman during a talk he was giving in May 2003.

The Swedish aim of controlling the Baltic Sea by establishing dominions on the coastline (" dominium maris baltici ") thwarted Frederick William's ambitions to gain control over the Oder estuary with Stettin ( now Szczecin ) in Pomerania.

William's right ( his line of retreat lay over the Gete ) was his dangerous flank, and Marshal Luxembourg was aware that the Allies ' front was somewhat long for the numbers defending it.

The trouble in 1077 or 1078 resulted in Robert leaving Normandy accompanied by a band of young men, many of them the sons of William's supporters.

William's duties as chancellor probably did not take up too much of his time ; the scribes and officials in the chancery drafted documents and it may not have even been necessary for him to be present to sign them.

However, within months Robert left England, unhappy with William's failure to fulfil the pact between them, and Edgar went with him to Normandy.

Although three-quarters of them were Jacobites, William's army had far more wounded.

This programme helped them both and William's knowledge of English proved an incalculable advantage to them both.

William's third son, Reginald de Braose reacquired his father's lands and titles for himself through simply seizing them back by force following the death of Giles.

With William's death by hanging and his having four daughters, who divided the de Braose inheritance between them and no male heir, the titles now passed to the junior branch of the de Braose dynasty, the only male heir was now John de Braose who had already inherited the titles of Gower and Bramber from his far-sighted uncle Reginald de Braose.

A short time after the arrival, the friend who had invited them out and offered them food and hospitality died of yellow fever, and several days later, William's father also succumbed to the same disease.

Regardless, as a punishment, in 1103 Henry I confiscated the three richest of William's Essex estates, Sawbridgeworth, Saffron Waldon, and Great Waltham, comprising about a third of his entire holdings, as well as the constableship giving them to Eudo Dapifer, William ’ s father-in-law.

This left the New Hampshire towns without any colonial administration, just as King William's War erupted around them.

William decides that he and Ginger should become highwaymen in order to steal some money to account for money that was lost by them, and by William's bike being removed because he trampled flowers over with it.

It was held by them until the 17th century, although Sir William's grandson, Sir William Hay, married the daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh Gifford of Yester, acquiring Yester Castle, which became the principal family seat, although Neidpath continued to be used.

Joan, William's only friend who is a girl, is coming back after a long time away from them.

In the late 1870s, Emma and William's widowed mother, Olivia Page, who had come to live with them, were influential in establishing the Church of the Redeemer, the Episcopal Church in Ansted.

Frustrated that Richard will not gain the earldom until Stephen's death, Aliena persuades William's young wife, Elizabeth, to hand the castle over to them.

Under William's rule, Anglo-Saxon nobles were often replaced by Anglo-Norman ones who could not own large expanses of contiguous lands, which made it much harder for them to rise against the King and defend all of their lands in the same time.

Haynes subsequently evicted them, and Ellen sold one sixth of some shares in a railway company that she had inherited from a maiden aunt, Margaret Barren, to pay William's debt to Martin.

At William's invitation, the Stephen family came to Montreal in 1847, and George joined them in 1850.

During Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential campaign, the media's intense scrutiny found them at William's jail cell out in California.

With bishop Odo, a warrior like himself, he was on the battle-field of Hastings, exhorting the Normans to victory ; and at William's coronation it was he who called on them to acclaim their duke as king.