NORMANS:

William the Second, 1087 to 1100

Rufus.

BORN: 1056/60, Normandy.
PARENTS: William I (1028 - 1087),
Matilda of Flanders (c. 1012-50).
MARRIED: Never married.
ACCEDED: 9 September 1087
CROWNED: 26 September 1087, Westminster Abbey.
DIED: 2 August 1100,
New Forest, Hampshire.
INTERRED: Winchester Cathedral.

CHILDREN: None

+ 1 illegitimate [spurious]

COEVAL
PERSONS:
Scottish Crown:
Malcolm III, Canmore (Bighead)
Donald III Bane
Duncan II
Edmund Scotland (southern Scotland)
Edgar

Archbishops of Canterbury:
Lanfranc
St Anselm

Popes:
Blessed Victor III
Blessed Urban II
Pashal II

NOTABLE
EVENTS:
Siege at Pevensey Castle, 1088.
Battle of Alnwick, 14 November 1093.
Normandy leased to William II, 1096.

Castles built at:
Alnwick, 1096.

Portrait of William the Second