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William I (the Conqueror), King of England (1027/8 - 1087)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29448?docPos=4 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_conqueror Authority - medieval
 Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business England, Europe
 Relationships: Henry I (1068/9-1135) was a son of William I (the Conqueror)
William King of England (Ambiguous) (-) was a same person as? (uncertain) William I (the Conqueror)
William of Poitiers (c. 1020-1090) was a employed by William I (the Conqueror)
References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) William the Conqueror.
A Catalogue of the Rarities To be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House [1775] 315 William the Conqueror's flaming Sword.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

29. The Arms of the Nobility in each King's Reign from William the Conqueror to Edw. 4. painted, with an Account of their Marriages and Issue.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 118. Polychronicon & parambulationes Forestarum factæ tempore Regis Henrici filii Johannis Regis in Com. Huntingdun Lancast. Gloucest. Leicestr. & Notingh. Dorse. Somers. Oxon. Surrei, Sussex, Berks. Buckingh. Wilts. Salop. Wygorn. Hereford. & Essex. Northampt. Cumbr. Bucks. Eborac. Memorandum, The Chronicle hath the Pedigree of the King's from Brute, but the History only from the Arrival of the Saxons circa, An. 444. There are other Perambulations of the Forrests added 29 Edw. I. Com. Staff. Hunt. Wygorn. and Roteland. Then follow the Charters of Edw. the Confessor, and Will. the Norman to Westminster. The Foundation of the Abbey at Tewksbury, by Oddo and Doddo of Mercia, with the Series of the Abbots to the Year 1400. Lastly, Europæ descriptio ex Orosio ab Alfrido rege in Anglicam sermonem traducto. In the Saxon Language and Character. To which are annexed Nomina regum Merciorum, cum regnorum spatiis & terris quas Weogorniensi monasterio contulerunt. Et Nomina Episcoporum Huicciorum cum terris quas monast. S. Mariæ Wigorniensi dederunt. Catalogus Episc. Selesiæ & Cicestriæ. This is the Original Writ by the Hand of the noted Lawrence Nowel, Dean of Litchfield, the first Reviver of the Saxon Tongue (1565), and was the acceptable Present of the Rev. Mr. Tim. Hodgson, Chaplain to the pious and charitable Lady Hewley.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 158 Of William I. or William II. 6 Pennies, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 6
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 39 Royal Descent of the Reigns from Egbert I. to Queen Elizabeth, with the Alliances between England and France, with their Arms coloured, vide D. L. N° 28 p. 518- Arms of the Nobility from William the Conqueror to Edward IV. with their Marriage and Issue, coloured, vide D. L. N° 29 p. 518- And an Alphabetical List of Crests belonging to several Families, Extracts from Domes-day Book relating to several Parts of Yorkshire- Frodarium Honoris Pontefract
British Curiosities in Nature and Art (1713) 3. The Horse Armory. Here they shew you the curious Figures of 15 of our Kings, since William called the Conqueror, all Mounted, they are represented with their Guards. The Kings are in Rich Armour. And here you may see a curious Suit of Armour, which they tell you was John of Ghents, 4th Son of Edward III.