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William II, Count of Eu

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127:, acting as the King's champion. William was sentenced to be blinded and castrated, a mutilation from which he never recovered. William died sometime later and was buried at Hastings. William's son Henry inherited the countship of Eu and also became Lord of Hastings. 191:
Professor David Douglas disputed this identification, basing himself on the genealogical researches of Edmund Chester Waters. In support of Douglas, while the west country estates of William were confiscated by the Crown in 1095, the strategically important
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trading ships and refused the King's demand to return the merchandise. King William conducted a lightning campaign, outflanking the rebels at
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was left in the hands of the Counts of Eu. It seems likely therefore that different people are referred to
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in Yorkshire and sister and heiress of Roger II de Builli. By this first wife he had one son:
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and built a castle facing the surviving one. During January 1096 in
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in 1088. Although he made his peace with that King, together with
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English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327
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in the west of England and was one of the rebels against King
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According to most authorities he was the son and heir of
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Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135
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Sanders does not give her first name or father's name
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Index

feudal baron
Hastings
Anglo-Norman
Count of Eu
Robert, Count of Eu
held
manors
William II of England
William of Aldrie
Roger de Lacy
Robert de Mowbray
Stephen of Aumale
Norwegian
Newcastle upon Tyne
Morpeth
Northumberland
Bamburgh Castle
Salisbury
trial by combat
Geoffrey Baynard
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
Roger I de Builly
feudal baron of Tickhill
Henry I, Count of Eu
feudal baron
Hastings
Richard le Goz, Viscount of Avranches
Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester
Honour of Hastings

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