Prince William ENGLAND

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-R7.

   General Notes:

Prince of ENGLAND.

Died young.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "William, Legitimate Son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Died 1156."

The Political History of England George Burton Adams, 1905, Longmans Green and Co, Ch XI, p248:
"...Whatever may have been her feelings towards him, she found no occasion to regard her second husband with contempt. Their eldest son, William, who did not survive infancy, was born on August 17, 1153, and in succession four other sons were born to them and three daughters."
Ch XII, p262: [1156] "...Before the submission Hugh Mortimer the third of the great councils of the year had been held at Wallingford early in April, and there the barons had been required to swear allegiance to Henry's eldest son William, and in case of his death to his brother Henry who had been born a few weeks before..."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol I, The Conquering Family, Thomas B Costain, 1949, Doubleday & Co, p41:
"At Rouen on August 17, Eleanor gave birth to a son who was named William, after the Conqueror, it is to be hoped, and not the old gander of Aquitaine." p46: "...Eleanor gave her husband eight children. The second was a boy, born soon after the death of the sickly little William, who had escaped the stigma of illegitimacy by such a narrow margin. The new son was called Henry, and he was healthy and strong..."
p47: "With the exception of the unfortunate infant William, sleeping now at the feet of his great-grandfather, Henry I, they were all healthy and handsome children..."

The Magnificent Century, Thomas B Costain, 1951, Popular Library, p20: "William Born 1153, Died 1156..."

ANCESTAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJ3-R7.