Reference books
Guillaume le Conquérant : bâtard de Falaise, duc de Normandie, roi d'Angleterre, 1027-1087
by Annie Fettu (Author)
Editor: Téqui (12th November 2000)
ISBN-10: 2912925215
ISBN-13: 978-2912925213
This booklet depicts the destiny of an exceptional, intelligent and determined man, who successfully led the most formidable military expedition of his time. Born in Falaise out of wedlock, Duke of Normandy then King of England, he was to endow England with stable institutions and to offer Normandy unprecedented economic development and intellectual influence. This...
Histoire de l'Angleterre: De Guillaume le Conquérant à nos jours
by Bernard Cottret (Author)
ISBN-10: 2847342621
ISBN-13: 978-2847342628
Editor: Tallandier (11th January 2007)
England is not an island. It occupies the southern part of an archipelago, which it has, slowly but surely, come to explore and to conquer, throughout its plurisecular history. It was through their closest neighbours - the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish - that the English were to learn of far-off lands...
Falaise Castle, William the Conqueror’s birthplace
by Catherine Duchemin (Author), Benoît Panozzo (Author)
Editor: Orep (9th January 2009)
Language: French, English
ISBN-10: 2915762775
ISBN-13: 978-2915762778
In the wake of the 21st Century, the castle is entering a new era: that of a storyteller. Falaise Castle, William the Conqueror's birthplace, welcomed his many successors and direct heirs, Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England, subsequently to be enlarged during the reign of the French Kings to become, during the Hundred Years' War...
Guillaume le conquérant
by Henri Suhamy (Author)
Editor: Ellipses Marketing (15th April 2008)
ISBN-10: 272983785X
ISBN-13: 978-2729837853
Nearly a thousand years after his death, William of Normandy ( 1027-1087), also known as William the Conqueror or William the Bastard, and in Great Britain as William I, remains a controversial, fascinating yet somewhat unfathomable figure. From his era, no contemporary portrait, no historiographer and no comrade in arms remain.