Example sentences of "[noun prp] the conqueror " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME OF the 17ft thick walls of Bristol Castle 's keep , built circa 1135 by the illegitimate grandson of William the Conqueror , Robert of Gloucester , are being revealed by an archaeological dig , writes David Keys . |
| 2 | A 2,000-year-old Roman coin or and Elizabeth I sixpence go for just under £100 , while a William the Conqueror silver penny is a little more . |
| 3 | A 2,000-year-old Roman coin or and Elizabeth I sixpence go for just under £100 , while a William the Conqueror silver penny is a little more . |
| 4 | A 2,000-year-old Roman coin or and Elizabeth I sixpence go for just under £100 , while a William the Conqueror silver penny is a little more . |
| 5 | From William the Conqueror onwards the Church Courts are separated from the Lay Courts : the Bishop has his court ; the Archbishop a superior or prerogative court ; from him before the Reformation there is an appeal to the pope . |
| 6 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 7 | Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror . |
| 8 | Henry I of England , William the Conqueror 's son , had left only one heir , Matilda , whom he had married to Henry V of Germany , the Holy Roman Emperor . |
| 9 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 10 | Thus we have in high places Alfred the Great , Edmund Ironside , Edward the Confessor , William the Conqueror , Richard Coeur de Lion , John Lackland , Edward Longshanks , Edgiva the Fair and , for the common people , Thomas the Shepherd , Walter at the Gate , Maud the Widow , Hawisia le Webbe , Alicia Spryngabedde , Roger Mildeneye , and so on . |
| 11 | This is the site of the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 12 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 13 | Several knights came to Ayrshire , one being Walter Fitzallan , whose father had moved from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror and had fought at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 14 | Yet even in the eleventh century there was something artificial in William the Conqueror 's notion of dividing England into about 6,000 knights ' fees . |
| 15 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 16 | Attractions include : Rockingham Castle built by William the Conqueror ; Althorp House , ( family home of the Princess of Wales ) with magnificent paintings and porcelain ; Castle Ashby which has extensive landscaped gardens open to the public ; Sulgrave Manor , ancestral home of George Washington ; and the delightful Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne . |
| 17 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 18 | Built by William the Conqueror on the site of an earlier fortification . |
| 19 | Soon after the Battle of Hastings , William the Conqueror strengthened Dover 's defences . |
| 20 | Above the Old Town , on the West Hill , lies Hasting 's most important monument to her famous past : the ruins of William the Conqueror 's first castle . |
| 21 | Visit the reproduction Bayeux Tapestry in the town museum , or Senlac field where William the Conqueror defeated Harold . |
| 22 | The abbey was founded by William the Conqueror to celebrate his victory over King Harold and as an atonement for the loss of life suffered in the battle . |
| 23 | It is unique in being the site of the terrible Battle of 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated King Harold and his Saxon army . |
| 24 | Each place has a special story to tell and offers a new experience of history : from neolithic man to Roman invasion , from William the Conqueror to the Civil War , from the Restoration to Queen Victoria and beyond . |
| 25 | Come to the village of Battle in East Sussex and stand on the field where William the Conqueror and Harold II fought the Battle of Hastings in 1066 — an event that changed the course of England 's history . |
| 26 | Within a medieval siege tent you are transported in time to the castle keep ; the lights dim and the 1066 Story begins … projected images , lighting , multi-track sound and even an appearance by King Harold and William the Conqueror ! |
| 27 | William the Conqueror occupied it when he landed at Pevensey in 1066 before the Battle of Hastings . |
| 28 | Built by William the Conqueror in thanks for his victory over King Harold — legend has it that the high altar marks spot where Harold died from an arrow through his eye . |
| 29 | The Romans and Danes had settlements here too and the village became permanent in Norman times when William the Conqueror 's brother Robert , Count of Mortain , built a manor house . |
| 30 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |