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For the child of Henry II of England, see William, Count of Poitiers.


William of Poitiers (c. 1020-1090), Norman chronicler, was born at Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke William (William the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux.

Orderic Vitalis gives a short biography of him in his Historia ecclesiastica and says that he also wrote verses.

He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, Gesta Guillelmi II ducis Normannorum, the earlier and concluding parts of which are lost; the extant part covers the period between 1047 and 1068 and is valuable for details of the Conqueror's life, although untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England. It gives a detailed description of the preparations for the Norman Conquest of England, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath. According to Freeman, "the work is disfigured by his constant spirit of violent partisanship." It was written between 1071 and 1077, and was used by Orderic Vitalis.

There is a translation of the Gesta Guillelmi into modern English: The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (ISBN 0-19-820553-8).

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Henry II
By the Grace of God, King of the English
and Duke of the Normans and Aquitanians
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and Lord of Ireland

Reign 25 October 1154-6 July 1189
Coronation 19 December 1154
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William (August 17, 1153 – April 1156) was the first child of Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England) and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born in Normandy, on the same day that his father's rival Eustace IV of Boulogne died.
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Normans were a people from medieval northern France, deriving to a large extent their aristocratic origins from Scandinavia (the name is adapted from the name "Northmen" or "Norsemen").
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Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica, from Greek χρονικά (from χρόνος
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Commune of
Pont-Audemer

Location
Longitude 00° 30' 53" E
Latitude 49° 21' 18" N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Bernay
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Poitiers

The town of Poitiers with its many medieval churches, viewed from Les Dunes

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Country  France
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Normandy (in French: Normandie, and in Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coasts of the south of the English Channel between Brittany (to the west) and Picardy (to the east) and
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William I of England (William the Conqueror; c. 1028 – 9 September 1087) was a medieval monarch. He ruled as the Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 and as King of England from 1066 to 1087.
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Commune of
Lisieux

Location
Longitude 0°14'E
Latitude 49°09'N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Lisieux
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Orderic Vitalis (1075–c. 1142) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and England.

He was the eldest son of a French priest, Odeler of Orleans, who had entered the service of Roger of Montgomery,
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Norman conquest of England began in 1066 with the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), and his success at the Battle of Hastings resulted in Norman control of England.
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Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman conquest of England. The location was Senlac Hill, approximately six miles north of Hastings, on which an abbey was subsequently erected.
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