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| Wallace, William |
| Born: Died: 23 Aug 1305 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Walter, Hubert |
| Born: Died: 1205 | Hubert Walter became Archbishop of Canterbury and Justiciar from 1193 after Baldwin. Hubert Walter was brought up in the Ranulf Glanvill household. He joined Richard on the Crusades and when Richard was captured in Germany, Hubert was responsible for running Richard's affairs and helped raise funds to pay for Richard's ransom. Hubert crowned Richard's brother John and was given the position of Chancellor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Warbeck, Perkin |
| Born: Died: Nov 1499 | Perkin Warberk was from Tournai in Flanders who arrived in Cork late in 1491. When he arrived in Cork he was dressed in the finest clothes, supplied by his master a silk trader, working as a walking advertisement. The locals, seeing him dressed so well, assumed he must be of royal birth and declared that he was Richard the younger brother of Edward V both of whom had disappeared in 1483 from the Tower of London. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wareham, William (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
| William Wareham became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1503. He later performed the marriage ceremony for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. | |||||||||||||
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| William (Adelin) |
| Born: 1103 Died: 1120 | William Adelin was the son of Henry I, the King of England. William was drowned while returning from Normandy to England when his ship 'The White Ship' sank. The crew and passengers were drunk and the helmsman steered the ship onto rocks even though the sea was calm. William was Henry's only son and his death left Henry without a male heir. Henry attempted to ensure that his daughter Matilda, William's sister, should become Queen of England when Henry died. Although the barons initially agreed to this arrangement when Henry did die conflict and civil war broke out between Stephen of Blois, who claimed the English throne and Matilda. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William (Adelin) (b.1103 - d.1120)| WILLIAM (I, the Conqueror, King of England 1066-1087) |
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| William (I, the Lion, King of Scotland 1165-1214) |
| Born: Died: 1214 | William was the son of Henry, the Earl of Huntingdon and the grandson of King David I, King of Scotland. William became King of Scotland in 1165 after the death of his elder brother Malcolm IV, who had been the king of Scotland from 1153. In 1168 William chose to build an alliance with the French king Louis VII to fight the English. He also supported King Henry II's rebellious sons in their revolt against their father. William was captured by the English and in 1174 signed the treaty of Falaise which made Scotland a feudal possession of England. William and his nobles swore fealty to Henry II. The treaty was overturned by King Richard I in return for funds paid by Scotland to pay for Richard's Crusade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William (I, the Lion, King of Scotland 1165-1214) ( - d.1214)| William (II, King of Sicily) |
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| WILLIAM (II, Rufus, King of England 1087-1100) |
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| William (Monk of Fecamp) |
| Son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. | ||||||||||||||||
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| William (of Warenne, Earl of Surrey) |
| Born: Died: 1088 | At the time of the Conquest, William of Warenne accompanied William the Conqueror across from Normandy, fighting at the Battle of Hastings. William of Warenne was rewarded with huge amounts of land and helped his Lord, William the Conqueror put down revolts. He was responsible for putting up many castles in the quest to dominate the areas under his control. After the Conqueror's death, William supported William Rufus' claim to the throne and as a reward was granted the title of Earl of Surrey. He died in 1088 leaving a massive dynasty that would be powerful for several centuries. | ||||||
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| Wolsey, Thomas (Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of York) |
| Born: 1472 Died: 1530 | Thomas Wolsey was an important adviser to Henry VIII. He was born in 1472. His father was a butcher. He was destined for the church and studied at Magdalen College in Oxford. In 1497 he became a fellow of the college and a year later was ordained as a priest. In 1507 Wolsey was given the position of royal chaplain to Henry VII and when Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 Wolsey became royal almoner (a priest in charge of distributing assistance or alms to the poor). Wolsey was also given a seat on Henry's Council in recognition of his organisational talents. These talents came into use at the end of 1513 when he organised Henry's successful campaign against the French. The English took and held the towns of Tournai (Belgium) and Therouanne (Northern France). Wolsey was given the Bishopric of Tournai. In 1514 Wolsey negotiated a peace treaty between England and France whereby Louis XII married Henry's younger sister Mary and had to pay Henry pension money owed to him under the treaty of Etaples. The treaty stated that peace should be maintained not less than a year after the first of them (Henry and Louis) should die. Soon afterwards Wolsey was promoted to the position of Archbishop of York. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Woodville, Anthony (Earl Rivers) |
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| Woodville, Edward |
| Born: Died: Jul 1448 | Details supplied by Dorothy Davies Edward Woodville was one of the many sons of Richard and Jaquetta Woodville, courtier, sailor and chivalric knight. He was made Knight of the Bath by Edward IV in 1475, and raised to Knight banneret by Richard Duke of Gloucester in 1482, after the Border campaigns. Henry VII made him a Knight of the Garter in 1487. Edward Woodville hardly appears in history, apart from the recording of his knighthood, before 1483, and the death of Edward IV. He is recorded as accompanying the corpse on the funeral procession which indicates he had a fairly high standing in court. Almost immediately after the funeral he set to sea with a fleet of twenty ships, in part to block French mercenaries from taking advantage of the king’s death and in part to block any moves made by Richard Duke of Gloucester, as Lord Protector, to take any part of the royal jewels. However, Richard of Gloucester sent emissaries into the ships to promise pardon and reward for any who would return to the ‘right side’ and Edward found himself with just two ships. He fled to Brittany with other exiles who were unsure of their fate in light of the new regime. He returned to England in 1485 with Henry Tudor, whom he had met whilst in exile. He fought against Richard III at Bosworth and was rewarded with the Captaincy of the Isle of Wight, not quite the title his brother Anthony Woodville had held but sufficient to give him overall command of the Island. In 1486 he sailed to Spain with 300 men, to join in the fight against the Moors, who were at that time holding Granada. He spent some time with Ferdinand and Isabella and when the fighting was over, he returned to England and helped negotiate the marriage of Catherine of Aragon with Henry VII’s oldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales. In 1488 trouble flared in Brittany and, despite not receiving royal approval or permission, Sir Edward raised an army of 440 men from the Isle of Wight and set off for France in May of that year. In July 1488, at St Aubin, battle was joined between the force commanded by Sir Edward, a group of Bretons who had joined his company and the French. The Bretons apparently abandoned the fight and the French soldiers killed Sir Edward and all his men, apart from one. This poor young man had the task of returning to the Island with the sad tale of the many losses. It is fitting that the brave soldier died on the battlefield, for he had fought at Barnet, in the Border campaigns and in Granada. He was not a knight who would have died in his bed. | |||||||||
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| Woodville, Elizabeth |
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| Wulfstan (Bishop of Worcester) |
| Born: 1008 Died: 19 Jan 1095 | Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester undertook large scale rebuilding work, including Worcester Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, (Tewkesbury Abbey?), Great Malvern Priory and many other churches in the Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester area. Wulfstan was a native of the Worcester area and managed to retain his position as bishop (which he took in 1062), after the Norman invasion of 1066. He had an alter dedicated to him in (Great Malvern Priory?) alongside Cantilupe of Hereford and King Edward the Confessor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wycliffe, John |
| John Wycliffe was a philosopher and scholar who during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II believed that the Church was not giving a true reflection of the Bible's messages. He translated the Bible into English so that ordinary people could read and understand it for themselves. His version was known as Wycliffe's Bible. The followers of Wycliffe were called the Lollards and were branded as heretics by the Church. The Bishops of England passed a statute imposing the death penalty on the Lollards and the first Lollard to be burned at the stake was William Sawtrey in 1401. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wykeham, William (of) |
| Born: 1324 Died: Sep 1404 | From an architect and surveyor for Edward III, to the Bishop of Winchester, and the founder of New College, Oxford, William of Wykeham had a varied and distinguished life. Although not taught in religious ways, Wykeham gained his positions in the church as reward for his service to the King. His architectural achievements included the conversion of Winchester Cathedral from Norman to Perpendicular, and the reconstruction of Windsor Castle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wynford, William |
| Master mason who worked on projects at Windsor Castle, Wells Cathedral, Winchester College and New College Oxford. Wynford worked at Windsor Castle from 1360 and work here included the Great Gate and the royal lodgings in the upper ward. While Wynford was at Windsor, the clerk of the works was William of Wykeham. Wykeham was to become the Bishop of Winchester Cathedral and when work was needed to convert the Norman Cathedral to the Perpendicular style, Wynford was employed to perform the task. Work began on 29th of September, 1394. Wynford worked mainly in the south-west of the country. | ||||||||||||||||
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Selection of references used:
1. J.D. Mackie,A History of Scotland,1978
2. Susan Ross,The Castles of Scotland,
3. Maurice Ashley,The Life and Times of King John,
4. Peter Potter,Data Donation,
5. The Plantagenet Chronicles,
6. J.J.Scarisbrick,Henry VIII,
7. H.W.C.Davis,England under the Normans and Angevins,1949
8. John Harvey,The Plantagenets,
9. A.R.Myers,England in the late middle Ages,
10. John Harvey,English Cathedrals,1961
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