There is, however, an earlier Eleanor on record: Eleanor of Normandy, William the Conqueror's aunt, who lived a century earlier than Eleanor of Aquitaine.

The division of William the Conqueror's lands into two parts presented a dilemma for those nobles who held land on both sides of the Channel.

Remembering the destruction caused by the Danes, the inhabitants of Canterbury did not resist William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066.

French legend maintained the tapestry was commissioned and created by Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, and her ladies-in-waiting.

A final attempt by the Norwegians to reconquer England failed, but did pave the way for William the Conqueror's takeover in 1066.

1092, when William the Conqueror's son William Rufus invaded Cumberland and reincorporated it into England.

The church was damaged in 1069 during William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, but the first Norman archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, arriving in 1070, organised repairs.

Leofric survived William the Conqueror's 1068 siege of Exeter unscathed, although there is no evidence that he was present in the city during the siege.

During the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the Saxon lord Wigod allowed William the Conqueror's invading armies to cross the Thames unopposed from west to east in order that his army might march on Berkhamsted, where he received the English surrender before marching on London.

He was the son of William the Conqueror's mother Herleva, and Herluin de Conteville.

After the failed attempt of Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror's eldest son, to take England from Henry I, Robert of Normandy was imprisoned here until his death in 1134.

Stigand's controversial position may have influenced Pope Alexander II's support of William the Conqueror's invasion of England.

Knutsford was recorded in the William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 as Cunetesford (" Canute's ford ").

Mentioned in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, Colnbrook is on the Colne Brook, a tributary to the River Colne, hence Colnbrook.

This priory was founded by Roger de Builli of Tickhill Castle, one of William the Conqueror's followers.

During William the Conqueror's reign, St-Calais was a frequent witness on charters.

In the Harrying of the North, William the Conqueror's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men burnt whole villages from the Humber to Tees, and slaughtered the inhabitants.

Margaret's arrival in Scotland in 1068, after the failed revolt of the Northumbrian earls, has been heavily romanticized, though Symeon of Durham implied that her first meeting with Malcolm III may not have been until 1070, after William the Conqueror's harrying of the north.

Retributive justice began to replace such systems following the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066 A. D. William the Conqueror's son, Henry I, detailed offenses against the “ king ’ s peace .” By the end of the 11th century, crime was no longer perceived as injurious to persons, but rather was seen as an offense against the state.

The settlement was called by the name Henamsted or Hean-Hempsted, i. e. High Hempstead, in Anglo-Saxon times and in William the Conqueror's time by the name of Hemel-Amstede.

Sheppey enjoys the dubious distinction of being the only part of mainland Britain to be lost to a foreign power since William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066.

The first castle on this site is believed to have been built by the Breton Juhel of Totnes ( also known as Judhael ) who was one of William the Conqueror's lieutenants.

The earliest reference to the site was in the Domesday Book survey of 1086, wherein the " minster " of Southwark seems to be under the control of Bishop Odo of Bayeux ( William the Conqueror's half-brother ).

* 1086-Feudal England: King William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, a book of records, has been stolen.

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

In 1784, with the assistance of his niece, Mary, he arranged a private sale to Margaret Cavendish-Harley, widow of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and so dowager Duchess of Portland.

William Tyndale's niece was Margaret Tyndale who married Rowland Taylor " The Martyr ".

In 1420, during the Hook and Cod wars, Duke John of Bavaria along with his army marched from Gouda in the direction of Leiden in order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new Count of Holland Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, his niece and only daughter of Count William VI of Holland.

Her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern in 1793 and became queen consort of Prussia in 1797.

He lived to see the tragic death at sea in November 1120 of William Adeling, the son of his niece Edith and heir to Henry I. Edgar was still alive in 1125 according to William of Malmesbury who was writing at the time.

Following in the footsteps of Charles of Egmond, Duke William formed an alliance with France, an alliance dubiously cemented via his political marriage to French King Francis I's niece Jeanne d ' Albret ( who reportedly had to be whipped into submission to the marriage, and later bodily carried to the altar by the Constable of France, Anne de Montmorency ).

David Lean was born in Croydon, Surrey ( now part of Greater London ), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye ( niece of Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye ).

On 4 October 1767 in Berlin, Prince William married Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, the daughter of Augustus William of Prussia, niece of Frederick the Great and a cousin of George III.

In 1677 he forced his niece Mary to marry William, one of the fundamental causes of the fall of his brother in 1688.

Clowes married Mary Winchester, the niece of William Winchester, in 1804 and had four daughters and four sons with her.

William's mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William inherited his estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, and assumed the name and arms of Nightingale.

* Sancho, King of Navarre ( 1018 – 1035 ), ruler first of William Isarn's portion, then of entire county by conquest and submission, he married Mayor Sánchez of Castile, niece and eventual heiress of Mayor García and descendant of Raymond II

The crowns of Hanover and Great Britain, which had been in personal union since 1714, were separated in 1837 upon the death of King William IV: his niece Victoria inherited the British crown under male-preference primogeniture but, because of semi-Salic law, was ineligible to that of Hanover, which passed to William's eldest surviving brother, Ernest I.

He received Saint-Gilles with the title of " count " from his father and displaced his niece Philippa, Duchess of Aquitaine, his brother William IV's daughter, in 1094 from inheriting Toulouse.

Elizabeth Paulet was a great niece of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and a third cousin of Philippe's mother, Rachel Poulet.

Cavendish married, on 7 June 1864, Lucy Caroline Lyttelton, second daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, granddaughter of Sir Stephen Glynne and niece of William Ewart Gladstone's wife Catherine.

Both William and Adelaide were fond of their niece, Princess Victoria of Kent, and wanted her to be closer to them.

Cavendish – who was married to Lucy Cavendish the niece of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and had worked as Gladstone's personal secretary – had only arrived in Ireland the day he was murdered.

On 10 September 1533, George carried the canopy over his royal niece the Princess Elizabeth ( later Queen Elizabeth 1 ) at her christening, along with his uncles Lord Thomas Howard and William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham as well as John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford.

The 1010 partition of the county left it divided between William Isarn, illegitimate son of count Isarn, and Raymond III of Pallars Jussà and his wife, Mayor of Castile, who was both niece of Isarn and aunt of Sancho's wife.

Resident Wardens included William Pitt the Younger ( whose niece Lady Hester Stanhope initiated the castle's gardens, using labour from the local militia ), the Duke of Wellington ( who died here ), Sir Winston Churchill and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.