Chapter I: Front Matter

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Heroes of the Nations

A Series of Biographical Studies presenting the lives and work of certain representative historical characters, about whom have gathered the traditions of the nations to which they belong, and who have, in the majority of instances, been accepted as types of the several national ideals.

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Heroes of the Nations

EDITED BY
H. W. C. Davis

FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE
GLORIA RERUM—-OVID, IN LIVIAM, 255.
THE HERO’S DEEDS AND HARD-WON
FAME SHALL LIVE.

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

And the Rule of the Normans

by

FRANK MERRY STENTON, M.A.

Late Scholar of Keble College, Oxford

G. P. Putnam’S Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1908

Copyright, 1908 By G. P. Putnam’S Sons

The Knickerbocker Press, New York