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William's great grandfather, Edward Osler, was variously described as either a merchant seaman or a pirate, and one of William's uncles ( Edward Osler 1798-1863 ), a medical officer in the Navy, wrote the Life of Lord Exmouth and the poem The Voyage.
1360 – 87 ) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman ( William's Vision of Piers Plowman ) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.
The poem had once been considered a near-contemporary authority, but Michael Lapidge has shown this to be based on a misunderstanding of William's reference to " a certain obviously ancient book ".
In 2011, Frank Gallagher's character in Shameless Series 8 rants on these words, interwoven with William's Blake's famous poem: " I wandered lonely as a clown, necking mushrooms rarely found / This green and pleasant land in ancient times.
Of particular note in " Fool for Love " is William's poem, recited at a society gathering, in which he has fudged a rhyme for the word effulgent ( like lungs, not a word easy to rhyme with in romantic poetry ).
Moreover, William's poem ends before the Battle of Muret on 12 September 1213: Baldwin's participation on the winning side in that battle, in which Raymond lost Toulouse and Raymond's feudal overlord Peter II of Aragon was killed, was the excuse for his execution as a traitor.
* The poem snatched from William's hands and read out loud ( to public ridicule ) is a portion of the same poem that Spike later reads ( in its complete form ) at the open-mic event in the series finale of Angel " Not Fade Away.
This episode reveals the true origin of these nicknames: one listener to William's poem in the flashback comments that he would rather have a railroad spike driven through his head than listen to any of William's poetry, and notes that William is referred to as " William the Bloody " because of his " bloody " awful poetry.

William's and Baldwin
One factor in William's favour was his marriage to Matilda of Flanders, the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders.
August C. Krey thought William's Arabic sources may have come from the library of the Damascene diplomat Usama ibn Munqidh, whose library was looted by Baldwin III from a shipwreck in 1154.
In the mid twentieth century, Marshall W. Baldwin, Steven Runciman, and Hans E. Mayer were influential in perpetuating this point of view, although the more recent re-evaluations of this period by Vessey, Peter Edbury and Bernard Hamilton have undone much of William's influence.
William and Baldwin both acknowledged Charles of Anjou as lord of Achaea under the Treaty of Viterbo in 1267 ; Charles had earlier defeated and killed William's old ally Manfred.

William's and still
William's children were still fighting over the collective Anglo-Norman inheritance.
Although many of the Norman nobles engaged in their own private wars and feuds during William's minority, the viscounts still acknowledged the ducal government, and the ecclesiastical hierarchy was supportive of William.
Government was still centred around William's household ; when he was in one part of his realms, decisions would be made for other parts of his domains and transmitted through a communication system that utilised letters and other documents.
William's son Robert, still allied with the French King Philip I, appears to have been active in stirring up trouble, enough so that William led an expedition against the French Vexin in July 1087.
William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the Orange Order.
A letter from Llywelyn to William's wife, Eva de Braose, written shortly after the execution enquires whether she still wishes the marriage between Dafydd and Isabella to take place.
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.
* Princess Carolina, his sister ( who at the time was an adult aged 22, while he was still a minor at 17 ), from 1765 to William's majority in 1766.
Ironically, the name of Philip II of Spain, William's adversary, appears on the official foundation certificate, as he was still the de jure count of Holland.
Although most contemporaries would not have considered there to be much of a distinction between monks and canons, William's election still occasioned some trepidation among the monks of the Canterbury chapter, who were " alarmed at the appointment, since he was a clerk ".
William's works are still considered invaluable, and despite these shortcomings, William of Malmesbury remains one of the most celebrated English chroniclers of the twelfth century.
Other than William's account of the flight, nothing has survived of Eilmer's lifetime work as a monk, although his astrological treatises apparently still circulated as late as the 16th century.
One of William's poems, possibly written at the time of his first excommunication, since it implies his son was still a minor, is partly a musing on mortality: Pos de chantar m ' es pres talenz ( Since I have the desire to sing ,/ I'll write a verse for which I'll grieve ).
In 1144, William's body was found upon Mousehold Heath, an extensive woodland to the north-east of Norwich that still exists.
On his return to Holland he was rewarded by William's still warmer friendship, and the post of court chaplain ; and after the Revolution he continued to hold this office, under the title of royal chaplain for Scotland.
Rufus built a wooden motte-and-bailey castle above the town, whose earthworks are still visible today and called " William's Hill ".
The story also focuses on William's and Marygay's relationship to their children, who do not agree with their parents ' views, but still have to deal with their parents ' fleeing ' into the future.
William's elder son Pons left two children, of whom William IV succeeded his father in Toulouse, Albi and Quercy ; while the younger, Raymond IV, made himself master of the vast possessions of the counts of Rouergue, married his cousin the heiress of Provence, and about 1085 began to rule the immense estates of his elder brother, who was still living.
Even though William's position was still weak, with Gui of Burgundy still holding out and William having to pardon many of the barons who had opposed him, it would be five years before he had to face another major revolt.
Control of the company was handed down to William's son, Bob Goodrich, who still heads Goodrich Quality Theaters.

William's and alive
Based on William's account, the story of Eilmer's flight has been retold many times through the centuries by scholars, encyclopaedists, and proponents of man-powered flight, keeping the idea of human flight alive.

William's and .
If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.
Lacking specific instructions, he agreed to William's condition.
William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.
Gerry began to aid Freddy with her father, prodded, no doubt, by Joan's open contempt for Freddy and William's irritating competency.
Sweat started out on William's forehead, whether from relief or disquietude he could not tell.
* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.
Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.
An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.
Ealdred at Whitsun 1068 performed the coronation of Matilda, William's wife.
After Ealdred's death, one of the restraints on William's treatment of the English was removed.
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.
It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.
On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.
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.
William's anxiety over them was probably what caused his first nervous breakdown.
Anna had been unhappy for some time with William's inability to provide for his family and asked him to leave.
William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne as William III of England jointly with his wife Mary II of England.
James's refusal to enter any anti-French coalition and his efforts to reorganise the Royal Navy increased William's suspicions.
In November 1686 James had wished to gain William's support for the repeal of the Test Acts, as this would have delivered a blow to the English opposition.
William's envoy Everhard van Weede Dijkvelt visited England between February and May 1687, instructed to persuade James to help contain French aggression.
James tried again to gain William's support but William responded by advising James to keep to the law and not to try to extend his prerogative powers.
He took an active part in parliament in 1685 and 1686, but remained a non-juror during the whole of William's reign, being frequently fined for his non-attendance, and took the oaths for the first time after Anne's accession, on 11 May 1703.
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.
An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.
Warren Giles, William's father and President of the National League from to, had awarded an MLB franchise to the city of Houston in 1960.

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