King William II

Standard Name: William II, King
Used Form: William Rufus

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Rosemary Sutcliff
The Times Literary Supplement faulted this book for not giving enough attention to the place of religion in mediaeval life, and for maintaining that most Normans and Saxons of the period, including King William Rufus
Textual Production Elinor James
EJ , in This Being Your Majesty's Birth-Day, marked the first anniversary of William III 's landing in England on his way to the throne.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Michael Field
MF (Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper ) published in a single volume The Father's Tragedy; William Rufus ; Loyalty or Love?, three verse dramas.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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Textual Production Michael Field
The two women were inspired to write William Rufus during a trip to the New Forest, the scene of William's murder.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
136
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) must have submitted her poem Upon King William 's Passing the Boyne to The Athenian Mercury (which had changed its title after only one issue from The Athenian Gazette).
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
38

Timeline

26 September 1087: King William I died, and William II acceded...

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26 September 1087

King William I died, and William II acceded to the throne of England.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
34-5
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425

2 August 1100: King William II died; Henry I assumed the...

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2 August 1100

King William II died; Henry I assumed the throne of England on 5 August 1100.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
35
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425

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