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William II of England
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By the Holy Face of Lucca.
— William's "customary oath", as reported by Eadmer and William of Malmesbury
William II of England
King of England from 1087 to 1100
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The third son who took England's crown had red hair, no wife, and died with an arrow in his back during a hunting trip — while his brother sprinted to seize the treasury before the body cooled.
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William II became King of England on 26 September 1087, the third son of William the Conqueror inheriting a realm he would hold with powers over Normandy and influence in Scotland. Known as William Rufus for his red hair or ruddy face, he was a soldier of contradictions: bellicose and flamboyant, capable in battle but rough-edged, accused by critics of vice and sodomy yet never marrying or fathering children. He maintained order in England, restored peace to Normandy, pushed Anglo-Norman rule into Wales, brought Scotland under his lordship, and recovered Maine. On 2 August 1100, an arrow struc…
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William II of England
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God shall never see me a good man. I have suffered too much from him.
— Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1882), p. 407
William II of England
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He knows nothing about crimes, or else he weighs them in unjust balances.
— Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1882), p. 407
William II of England
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Go, bid the vassals saddle The steed at Mons I rode; By the holy cross at Lucca, 'Tis the best I e'er bestrode.
— George Walter Thornbury, "The Death of Rufus", Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs (1876)
William II of England
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To the gate of the fair White City Comes the charcoal burner's wain; It brings no hart for abbot's board, It bears the royal slain.
— George Walter Thornbury, "The Death of Rufus", Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs (1876)
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