william the conqueor'ss last name?

Answer 1

The Bastard.

Born around 1028, William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy, and Herleve (also known as Arlette), daughter of a tanner in Falaise. Known as 'William the Bastard' to his contemporaries, his illegitimacy shaped his career when he was young.

Answer 2

None. In those days, people didn't have last names; there simply wasn't enough people around to need them (Icelanders, by the way, don't have last names even today, because their entire country is less than 200,000 people). Noblemen were identified by their title (William, for example, went under William the Duke of Normandy and eventually became William I of England); commoners went under their first name alone, adding their birthplace to their name when traveling to distinguish themselves from the locals and other travelers.

Answer 3

William, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy, spent his first six years with his mother in Falaise and received the duchy of Normandy upon his father's death in 1035.

Falaise castle, the current one dating from the 12th-13th century, is the ancestral seat of the dukes of Normandy.

It is quite common in French and British nobility to adopt the name of the family seat as their surname. Look at our current Royal Family, the Windsors. Now on this basis, even though William was known by many other names already given in earlier answers to your question, I would contend that his correct earliest name would have been 'William de Falaise'.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

No last name as such: Normans didn't use such thing, they only added "s" or "se" to their father's name, meaning just they were their son.
Family names are a roman-derived tradition, not a northern one.
However, William's family (up to Richard III) was nicknamed "Plantagenet". This is not a real surname as such, just a nickname based on his habit of wearing leaves of this plant in his helmet.

Answer 6

He was known as William the Bastard (Guillaume le Bâtard).
William I, known as William the Conqueror or William the bastard, was the first of the Norman kings of England and the last general to mount a conquest of England.

Despite his unfortunate parentage, William inherited the Dukedom of Normandy from his father, aged seven years, and was a successful ruler establishing his authority and subduing resistance from rival claimants to the Duchy.

During his reign in Normandy, William cultivated his friendship with the childless Edward the Confessor, king of England, hoping to inherit the crown. In 1064, when his rival claimant to the throne, Harold Godwinson, was shipwrecked in Normandy, William exacted a sacred oath that Harold would support William in his claim to the English crown. Despite this promise, when Edward died in 1066, Harold seized the throne and declared himself king.

In order to peruse his own claim, William needed support. He enlisted the pope, Alexander II, who was completely dissatisfied with the state of the English church, and William promised that if he took control of England, he would build a stone church in every parish, to ensure continual worship. The pope took up William’s offer and financed an invasion.

William took a fleet and landed in Sussex, where after provoking Harold to battle, defeated him and several Anglo-Saxon noblemen, at Hastings. William then had to reach a compromise with the remaining Anglo-Saxon dignitaries before being crowned in Westminster Abbey.

William’s instituted many changes to the kingdom. He commissioned the Doomsday Book, a survey of England’s economic capacity, and built several castles including the Tower of London. He was true to his word to the pope and instituted a programme of church building. Many Norman churches are around today, while few survive from the Anglo-Saxon period.

William’s reign was characterised by uprisings in the north and in Wales and invasions from the Danes and Scots. William had to deal with these ruthlessly. It is estimated that in 1075, one fifth of the population died by massacre or starvation. William is said to have deported many of the Anglo-Saxon nobility into slavery in the Moorish lands.

At the age of sixty, William died from injuries sustained when he fell from his horse. He was buried in St Peter’s church, Caen, Normandy. The king’s injuries had caused his abdomen to swell and the corpse would not fit into the stone sarcophagus. The mourners attempted to push the body into the coffin causing it to burst. The stench overpowered the congregation and the mourners rushed for the exit, leaving the funeral to be drawn to an abrupt and unseemly close.

Answer 7

Don't know about a last name, kings back then didn't reall have them the way we do.
Will was also know as William of Normandy, and my favourite king-name ever William the Bast ard

Answer 8

I believe the family surname would be Plantenegenet.

Answer 9

I am not sure what his last name was but he was nicknamed...The B.....d because his mother had him before she got married.

Answer 10

Jingleheimerschmidt. (His name is my name too.)