William II of England

1060–1100

William II, known as William Rufus, was king of England from 1087 to 1100. He defended the Anglo-Norman realm against rebellions, fought his brother Robert Curthose and clashed with church leaders before dying from an arrow wound while hunting in the New Forest.

In David Field’s Traitor’s Arrow, England after 1100. Cecelia Holland’s Two Ravens places William II of England within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, religion, belief and institutional authority, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter.

In non-fiction, William II of England is discussed in Paul Doherty’s The Death of the Red King. In Paul Doherty’s The Death of the Red King, the death becomes a route into the unstable succession politics of Anglo-Norman England.

Series

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The Medieval Saga in Order

by David Field 7 books 4.3

The Medieval Saga follows interlinked fictional families through two centuries of English dynastic conflict, beginning with the invasions of 1066 and ending with Simon de Montfort’s challenge to Henry III. The sequence places ordinary soldiers, household officers and landed families beside the rulers whose wars repeatedly reshape their…

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