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  2. William Adelin - Wikipedia

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    William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling) [a] was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir apparent to the English throne.

  3. William Hurt - Wikipedia

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    William McChord Hurt [1] [2] (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. For his performances on stage and screen, he has received various awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.

  4. William (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film narrates two biologists remotely cloned a living Neanderthal they named William as a way to exhibit the everyday life to what is the organism and intelligence differences in the homo-sapiens. The "parents" soon divorce due to the substantial idealism of either raising William as a normal person or a lab rat.

  5. William Clito - Wikipedia

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    William was the son of Duke Robert Curthose of Normandy and Sibylla of Conversano. [1] His father was the first son of King William the Conqueror of England. His nickname Clito was a Medieval Latin term equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon "Aetheling" and its Latinized form "Adelinus" (used to refer to his first cousin, William Adelin).

  6. William II of England - Wikipedia

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    William's exact date of birth is not known, but according to Frank Barlow it occurred by 1060. [5] He was the third of four sons born to William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, the eldest being Robert Curthose, the second Richard, and the youngest Henry. Richard died around 1075 while hunting in the New Forest. William succeeded to the ...

  7. The Death of Alfred - Wikipedia

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    The poem occurs as part of the entry for 1036 in manuscripts C and D of the Chronicle, [2]: 31 which begins in prose: . Her com Ælfred, se unsceððiga æþeling, Æþelrædes sunu cinges, hider inn and wolde to his meder, þe on Wincestre sæt, ac hit him ne geþafode Godwine eorl, ne ec oþre men þe mycel mihton wealdan, forðan hit hleoðrode þa swiðe toward Haraldes, þeh hit unriht wære.

  8. Harrying of the North - Wikipedia

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    The North of England, showing today's county outlines. The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish rebellions.

  9. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile and his wife Agatha, and also the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. [1] After the death of Ironside in 1016, Canute sent the infant Edward and his brother to the court of the Swedish king, Olof Skötkonung, and they eventually made their way to Kievan Rus'.