PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER II. THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM. A.D. 1028 - 1051.

CHAPTER III. WILLIAM'S FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND. A.D. 1051 - 1052.

CHAPTER IV. THE REIGN OF WILLIAM IN NORMANDY. A.D. 1052 - 1063.

CHAPTER V. HAROLD'S OATH TO WILLIAM. A.D. 1064?

CHAPTER VI. THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM. January - October 1066

CHAPTER VII. WILLIAM'S INVASION OF ENGLAND. August-December 1066

CHAPTER VIII. THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND. December 1066- March 1070

CHAPTER IX. THE SETTLEMENT OF ENGLAND. 1070 - 1086.

CHAPTER X. THE REVOLTS AGAINST WILLIAM. 1070 - 1086.

CHAPTER XI. THE LAST YEARS OF WILLIAM. 1081 - 1087.

BY
EDWARD A. FREEMAN
D.C.L., LL.D.

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S SQUARE, LONDON

1913

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First Edition printed March 1888.
Reprinted July 1888, 1890, 1894, 1898, 1903, 1907, 1913