| Birth: | c. 1027 | | Death: | Sep. 9, 1087 | 
British Monarch. William I conquered England in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings, where he defeated the Anglo-Saxon King Harold II. He was also the Duke of Normandy. In 1087 he and his men were burning the town of Mantes in France when his horse stumbled and threw him against the saddle. He received internal injuries. Six weeks later he died from his injuries and was taken to Caen for burial. The church he is buried in is called the Eglise Saint-Etienne, better known as the 'Abbaye aux Hommes', in Caen, Normandy. The inscription on the tomb says 'Guillelmus', Guillaume is the French form of William. during the French wars of religion and the French revolution the tomb was ransacked and the King's bones were thrown into the River Orne. Only a solitary leg bone was rescued from the river and this is now buried under a large marble slab.
Cause of death: Internal injuries from his horse's fall
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Abbey of Saint Stephen
Caen
Basse-Normandie Region, France |
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
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