Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of william the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The household of William the Conqueror was the nerve-centre from which his military victories were planned , from which his duchy and the kingdom of England were held in subordination ; its lay members held themselves always ready for battle . |
| 2 | This beautiful priory of St. Leonard 's , originally belonging to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne , was later destroyed by marauding Danes and was only rebuilt in 1082 with the co-operation of William the Conqueror . |
| 3 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 4 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 5 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 6 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |
| 7 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 8 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 9 | But the only really close dynastic rival to Robert Bruce was John Balliol , like himself a great-grandson of William the Lion 's younger brother . |
| 10 | The Abbey of St Mary at Kirkstead was in fact founded in 1139 by Hugo Brito , the son of Eudo who was a companion of William the Conqueror . |
| 11 | A descendant of William the Lion that was king of Scotland at one time . |