Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] the conqueror " in BNC.
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| 1 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 2 | The most important is Domesday Book , the great survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This beautiful priory of St. Leonard 's , originally belonging to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne , was later destroyed by marauding Danes and was only rebuilt in 1082 with the co-operation of William the Conqueror . |
| 10 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 11 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 12 | The household of William the Conqueror was the nerve-centre from which his military victories were planned , from which his duchy and the kingdom of England were held in subordination ; its lay members held themselves always ready for battle . |
| 13 | The Abbey of St Mary at Kirkstead was in fact founded in 1139 by Hugo Brito , the son of Eudo who was a companion of William the Conqueror . |
| 14 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 15 | Among these were a number of scions of William the Conqueror 's knights whose descendants were to wield great influence in Scotland 's tumultuous history : Bernard de Bailleul ( later Balliol ) ; Robert de Brus ( Bruce or ‘ the Bruce ’ ) ; and Walter FitzAlan , who became hereditary Steward of Scotland , a title leading ultimately to the name and royal family of Stewart . |
| 16 | Visitors can trace the history of medieval fortification from a stone hall-keep built within a decade of the battle of Hastings in 1066 by one of William the Conqueror 's principal lieutenants , through the gun loops of the 17th century . |
| 17 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 18 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 19 | Any grant of papal support or protection , as Alexander II 's support of William the Conqueror 's invasion of England in 1066 , was likely to lead to a request for a quid pro quo or a reminder of a payment due . |
| 20 | William of Poitiers used the Gesta Normannorum Ducum when working on his history of William the Conqueror in the 1070s , but the beginning of his Gesta Guillelmi has not survived , and it now opens with events just after Cnut 's death . |
| 21 | The jail was originally built as part of William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 22 | In the Norman tapestry it was Halley 's Comet which bode ill : not , as it turned out , for the invading forces of William the Conqueror but for the defenders led by King Harold . |
| 23 | In particular , Cnut , unlike William the Conqueror , whose Norman duchy contained a vigorous church , was not in a position to start replacing English personnel with continentals on any scale . |
| 24 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 27 | They descended from Sir Pagan d'Urberville , who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror in 1066 . ’ |
| 28 | Robert Deane 's daughter married William Dalison of Grays Inn , who was descended from the Dalisons of Lincolnshire and claim descent from one De Alanzon who came over with William the Conqueror . |
| 29 | Probably he was his ancestors were from Gascony and came over with William the Conqueror like the name Norman it 's a widely known name in England . |
| 30 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |