S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.
[Surnamed the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy; born at Falaise, 1025; succeeded his father, 1035; having gained the favor of Edward the Confessor, he resolved to claim the throne of England, and on the death of the king invaded that country, and defeated Harold at Hastings, September, 1066; was crowned king in December; completed the subjugation of the island, and ordered a survey to be recorded in Domesday Book; died at Rouen, 1087.]