Posted on 10/14/2017 8:50:32 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Duke William of Normandy (AKA William the Bastard) defeated the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.
The history books in the 1970s (at least in Ireland) referred to him as “William the Conqueror”.
I’ve heard of William the Conqueror. Also Not Known As (ANKA) William the Bastard?
That’s considered the beginning of England, as we know it today.
...made it almost 1000 years.
How did William the Bastard become William the Conqueror? - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zp88wmn
He probably weeps for it now.
Cool. That was the time our family got started in England
Damn, that’s some serious ruts. I don’t know anything prior to the 1900s regarding my family.
There were three contenders for the throne in 1066.
Two were decendents of Vikings, Harald Hrdrada, King of Norway, and Duke William of Nomandy.
The Saxon Harold, son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex does not seem to have had Viking ancestors.
http://www.normaninvasion.info/claims-throne-england-1066.htm
When I was in school (1940’s - 1950’s - in Texas USA) he was called “William the Conqueror”.
“1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England” by W. C. Sellar, et al was one funny book. I’d recommend it highly to give good laugh or two for anyone with a prior experience with English history.
William’s mother was not married to William’s father. Through the Middle Ages up until the mid 20th Century, Bastard was the term used for children of un-wed parents.
(we weren’t supposed to KNOW the word Bastard, much less read it...)
It is still that term, yet lately it has been bastardized as a pejorative.
While the fighting was going on at Hastings, the Sunset Crater volcano near present-day Flagstaff, Ariz. volcano was erupting.
NOT in Hastings and NOT 1066!
He was thrown into "Clink Prison" in the Southwick section of London. (A torture chamber) I was trying to find out why he was released after two years and discovered that he was on the Freeville line. A line that had served William 1st, from the beginning.
William’s father was riding by a stream and saw a young lady washing some clothes; he scooped her up and took her home with his wife still in residence. She became the Bastard’s mother.
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