William returns to the tournament to face Adhemar in the final match, but Adhemar cheats with an illegal lance, piercing William's shoulder and seriously injuring him.

Cumberland's final years were lived out during the first years of the reign of his nephew, George III, who acceded to the throne on the death of William's father on 25 October 1760: Cumberland became a very influential advisor to the King and was instrumental in establishing the First Rockingham Ministry.

Samantha " Sam " Larabee was supposed to be William's last victim, but in the finale, Ángel, the winner, rescued her before William was able to complete his final murder.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

Hubert was besieged in his castle at Sainte-Suzanne by William's forces for at least two years, but eventually made his peace with the king and was restored to favour.

William's exact date of birth is unknown, but it was sometime between the years 1056 and 1060.

Its foundations were laid in 1837 and it was completed in November 1841 ( two years after William's death ).

According to Peter Edbury and John Rowe, the obscurity of William's life during these years shows that he did not play a large political role, but concentrated on ecclesiastical affairs and the writing of his history.

William's mother showed little personal interest in her son, sometimes being absent for years, and had always deliberately kept herself apart from Dutch society.

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.

Some years after William's death, that bishop is said to have laid a curse on the family that William's sons would have no children, and the great Marshal estates would be scattered.

For many years it was thought that she had some involvement in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry ( commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French ), but historians no longer believe that ; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by English artists in Kent ..

In 1689 during King William's War, they were driven out again, and the village remained a desolate waste for 40 years.

Thirteen years passed and settlers believed the incident had been forgotten when King William's War began and members of the newly formed Wabanaki Confederacy arrived.

Over seventy-four years there were six colonial wars, in which New England tried to capture Acadia starting with King William's War in 1689.

Honoured for his services at William's coronation with the earldom of Marlborough, he served with further distinction in the early years of the Nine Years ' War, but persistent charges of Jacobitism brought about his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower.

* Lt John Irving of HMS Terror ( 1822-1848 or 49 ) who died in King William's Land as part of the Franklin Expedition searching for the North-West Passage and whose body was found some 30 years later and brougfht back to Edinburgh for burial ( re-interred 7. 11. 1881 ).

During William's last years he attempted to reform St Martin's, Dover.

In 1688, King William's War began and the English and Iroquois launched a major assault on New France, after many years of small skirmishes throughout the English and French territories.

William first met Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1747, and 2 years later appointed him field marshal of the Dutch States Army, which later led to his being one of the regents to William's heir.

This reuniting was revealed in a BBC Four sixty minute documentary on William's work, The Man Behind The Masquerade on December 2 2009, beginning with Masquerade and ending with an exhibition of the best 18 pieces of his art from the last thirty years at London's Portal Gallery, which had first exhibited his work in the 1970s.

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.

John succeeded his brother as head of the business in 1834, on William's death ; four years later he was joined by Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his death in 1861.

One of King William's first acts was to confer the Rangership of Bushy Park ( for thirty-three years held by himself ) on Queen Adelaide.

By 1073 there were only two Englishmen in episcopal sees, and by the time of William's death in 1089, there was only one, Wulfstan II of Worcester.

The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.

The benefits of greater authority were reaped by William's son Alexander II and his son Alexander III, who pursued a policy of peace with England to expand their authority in the Highlands and Islands.

Peter W. Edbury, on the other hand, argues that William, as well as the thirteenth-century authors who continued William's chronicle in French and were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family, cannot be considered impartial.

To William's relief, Monmouth was defeated, captured and executed, but both he and Mary were dismayed by James's subsequent actions.

The King's brother Prince William ( the future King and Emperor William I ) had fled to England, and Bismarck intrigued with William's wife Augusta to place their teenage son ( the future Frederick III ) on the Prussian throne in King Frederick William IV's place — Augusta would have none of it, and detested Bismarck thereafter, although Bismarck did later help to restore a working relationship between the King and his brother, who were on poor terms.

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

Both William's paternal uncles Thomas and John were MPs while his aunt Lucy married the leading Whig politician and soldier General James Stanhope.

William's lands were divided after his death: Normandy went to his eldest son, Robert, and his second surviving son, William, received England.

The support given to the exiled English princes in their attempt to return to England in 1036 shows that the new duke's guardians were attempting to continue his father's policies, but Archbishop Robert's death in March 1037 removed one of William's main supporters, and conditions in Normandy quickly descended into chaos.

William's next efforts were against Guy of Burgundy, who retreated to his castle at Brionne, which William besieged.

Examination of William's femur, the only bone to survive when the rest of his remains were destroyed, showed he was approximately in height, quite tall for the time.

Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force ; troops and ships were deployed along the English Channel for most of the summer.

There were probably other reasons for William's delay, including intelligence reports from England revealing that Harold's forces were deployed along the coast.

The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge, and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties.

Some of William's Breton troops panicked and fled, and some of the English troops appear to have pursued the fleeing Bretons until they themselves were attacked and destroyed by Norman cavalry.

Another earl, Waltheof, although one of William's favourites, was also involved, and there were some Breton lords who were ready to rebel in support of Ralph and Roger's efforts.

The raiders were supported by many of William's continental enemies.

William's forces were forced to lift the siege and the king returned to Rouen.

Map showing William's lands in 1087, the light pink areas were controlled by William

Although Odo remained in confinement for the rest of William's reign, his lands were not confiscated.

Although some of the newly rich Normans in England came from William's close family or from the upper Norman nobility, others were from relatively humble backgrounds.