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William's position as Master Mason to the Board of Ordnance also began to generate much work, as the Highlands were fortified following the failed Jacobite revolt.
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William's and position
Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.
Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill ( present-day Battle, East Sussex ), about from William's castle at Hastings.
Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill ( present-day Battle, East Sussex ), about from William's castle at Hastings.
William's position was also undermined by own officials, notably Essad Pasha himself, who accepted money from Italy to finance a revolt and to stage a coup against William.
It is likely that William's Loyalism was a major factor in Benjamin Franklin's uncompromising position towards the Loyalists during the negotiations in Paris for a peace treaty.
The French assaulted the Allied position three times before the French cavalry finally penetrated the allied defences and drove William's army from the field in a rout.
In 1841 he was appointed vice-principal of King William's College, Castletown, in the Isle of Man, and this position he held until 1856.
This favour he owed to his position at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, William's most important ally in the Grand Alliance.
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.
In early February, Schenectady was attacked by French and Indian raiders ( part of King William's War, begun in North America the previous year ), exposing the weakness of the Albany Convention's position.
For a number of years, William's position was very insecure.
William's and Master
Sir William's son, Sir John Temple ( 1600 – 1677 ), was Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
On the morning of 10 September, the guests conferred with courtiers Lord Coventry, Master of the Buckhounds, and Lieutenant-General Owen Williams, as to what they should do about Sir William's behaviour.
William's and Mason
She twice played secretary Della Street to Warren William's Perry Mason, in The Case of the Curious Bride ( 1935 ), and The Case of the Velvet Claws ( 1936 ).
William's and Board
With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death.
William's and also
William of Poitiers claimed that the battle was won mainly through William's efforts, but earlier accounts claim that King Henry's men and leadership also played an important part.
He also relied on the clergy for advice, including Lanfranc, a non-Norman who rose to become one of William's prominent ecclesiastical advisors in the late 1040s and remained so throughout the 1050s and 1060s.
These captures secured William's rear areas and also his line of retreat to Normandy, if that was needed.
He was opposed to King William's power on the continent, thus the Battle of Cassel not only lost the king an important supporter, but also upset the continental balance of power in northern France.
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.
Orderic also related that Odo had attempted to persuade some of William's vassals to join Odo on an invasion of southern Italy.
William left Normandy to Robert, and the custody of England was given to William's second surviving son, also called William, on the assumption that he would become king.
This is also the effective beginning of King William's War, the first of four North American Wars until 1763 between English and French colonists, both sides allied to Native American tribes.
William's claims of impartiality are also a typical topos in ancient and medieval historical writing.
* William Marshal also appears as a supporting character in Thomas B. Costain's out of print novel Below the Salt, and Sharon Kay Penman's novels Time and Chance and Devil's Brood, as well as a minor appearance in Penman's When Christ and His Saints Slept, illustrating the story about young William's time as King Stephen's hostage and John Marshal's defiance.
William's son Noel Van Horn is also a Disney comics artist, focusing on Mickey Mouse-stories.
Lord Byron's son and heir ( also named William ) eloped with Juliana Byron, the daughter of William's brother John Byron.
Theobald was also present when Henry of Anjou met with Stephen's second son William, probably after Eustace's death, to settle William's lands and status after Henry succeeded Stephen.
Calixtus had also consecrated Thurstan when both King Henry and William's predecessor had attempted to prevent Thurstan's consecration unless Thurstan submitted to Canterbury.
William's younger brother, Philip, also accompanied the king to Ireland, and remained with the garrison at Wexford.
William's eldest daughter Matilda ( also called Maud ) married a prominent Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Rhys II of Deheubarth.
Stark also noticed an additional gap in the defense line and ordered Lieutenant Nathaniel Hutchins from his brother William's company and others to follow him down a bank to the edge of the Mystic River.
The War of the Grand Alliance also played out in North America, where it was called King William's War.
She also treated the young Princess Victoria of Kent ( William's heir presumptive and later Queen Victoria ) with kindness, despite her own inability to produce an heir and the open hostility between William and Victoria's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Kent.
The Nine Years ' War was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a theatre in Ireland and in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of the British Isles, and a campaign ( King William's War ) between French and English settlers and their Indian allies in colonial North America.
William's grandfather William I Canynges ( d. 1396 ) was also a great Bristol merchant and was also 5 times Mayor of Bristol and 3 times MP for Bristol, in 1383, 1384 and 1386.
After the revolution, Cavendish was a leading Whig, serving as William's Lord Steward, and was created the Duke of Devonshire ( 1694 ) and also Marquess of Hartington in recognition for his services.
William's and began
Gerry began to aid Freddy with her father, prodded, no doubt, by Joan's open contempt for Freddy and William's irritating competency.
But in 1052 the king and Geoffrey Martel made common cause against William at the same time as some Norman nobles began to contest William's increasing power.
William at first opposed the prospect of invasion, but most historians now agree that he began to assemble an expeditionary force in April 1688, as it became increasingly clear that France would remain occupied by campaigns in Germany and Italy, and thus unable to mount an attack while William's troops would be occupied in Britain.
James's support began to dissolve almost immediately upon William's arrival ; Protestant officers defected from the English army ( the most notable of whom was Lord Churchill of Eyemouth, James's most able commander ), and influential noblemen across the country declared their support for the invader.
Port Royal was raided numerous times before the four French and Indian Wars began with King William's War.
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.
Their joint reign began in February 1689, when they were offered the throne by the Parliament of England, replacing James II & VII, Mary's father and William's uncle / father-in-law, who was " deemed to have fled " the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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.
Born into the very wealthy Cavendish family at Handsworth in the county of Yorkshire, William's family had a good relationship with the ruling Stuart monarchy and began to gather prominence after he was invested as a Knight of the Bath and soon inherited his father's Northern England estates.
The first war, King William's War, began in 1688.
King William's War with France began during which the French attacked Schenectady.
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.
This interval proved to be short-lived, however, as William's father began to suffer serious back problems and was unable to complete his work without assistance.
However, its strategic importance made William place William de Braose in a new castle at nearby Bramber, who began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks, William's settlement having lacked definite terms in the first place.
About 1763, William's son Edward Fell laid out streets and began selling plots for homes.
Then, in William's absence, Ralph, Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford ( his new brother-in-law ), and Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumberland began the revolt ; but it was plagued by disaster.
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