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...STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. In the 900th anniversary year of the Norman invasion, Author Butler memorably measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there (Harold of England) and the man who survived to wear the crown (William the Conqueror...
Miracle of Faith. Great lords like Godfrey of Bouillon mortgaged their estates to raise armies and took up the Cross to serve God's cause with their swords. Bohemond of Taranto, the impoverished son of the Norman conqueror of Sicily, sought to carve a kingdom of his own in the East. And they were joined by religious fanatics, adventurers and brigands who sought only pillage, murder and rape. In the Crusades, idealism and gangsterism were in harness...
Best Reading 1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. It is the year of Hastings, and the story of the battlefield where one King (William the Conqueror) was spawned and another (King Harold I of England) died...
...only could Debrett watchers read for the first time the biographies of Scottish clan chiefs,* but in a special introductory article by Editor P. W. Montague-Smith they learned some new facts about Queen Elizabeth II. Everybody knows that the Queen is descended from William the Conqueror, who defeated Saxon King Harold at Hastings just 900 years ago this October. What Montague-Smith has discovered, though, is that Elizabeth also carries the blood of Harold in her veins...
...only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive resistance- "a campaign without booty, to hinder battle, and to discourage the enemy from war." William, on the other hand, came as liberator and earned the name of Conqueror, which he did not want. The realm he seized fought him until 1087, when he died in a fall from his horse. Rebellions flared throughout his reign and through the reigns of all his Norman successors, until the dynasty ended after 100 years...