William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

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Heroes of the Nations
A Series of Biographical Studies presenting the lives and work of certain representative historical characters, about whom have gathered the traditions of the nations to which they belong, and who have, in the majority of instances, been accepted as types of the several national ideals.
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Heroes of the Nations
EDITED BY
H. W. C. Davis
FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE
GLORIA RERUM—-OVID, IN LIVIAM, 255.