Cultural depictions of William II of England

William II of England has been depicted in various cultural media.

William II appears in Knight's Fee (1960), a children's historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff. Sutcliff's novel depicts William as secretly being a pagan.[1] Knight's Fee was influenced by Sutcliff's reading of the essay "The Arrow and the Sword" by Hugh Ross Williamson, which that argued William was covertly an adherent of a pre-Christian religion.[2]

William II is indirectly the subject of two historical novels by George Shipway, The Paladin and The Wolf Time. The main character of the novels is Walter Tirel (or Tyrell), his supposed assassin, and the main thrust of the plot of the novels is that the assassination was engineered by Henry I.[3]

The death of William Rufus is portrayed in Edward Rutherfurd's 2000 fictionalised history of the New Forest, The Forest. In Rutherfurd's version of events, the king's death takes place nowhere near the Rufus Stone, and Walter Tyrrell is framed for it by the powerful Clare family. Also, Purkiss is a clever story teller who manages (much later) to convince Charles II of England that one of his ancestors had been involved.

William Rufus is a major character in Valerie Anand's 1989 historical novel, King of the Wood (1989). He is also a major character in Parke Godwin's Robin and the King (1993), the second volume in Godwin's reinterpretation of the Robin Hood legend. [4] William Rufus and his relationship with Tyrell is mentioned and the manner of his death is included in Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz. He is a character in Stephen R. Lawhead's King Raven Trilogy about Robin Hood.

On television, William was portrayed by Peter Firth in the 1990 play Blood Royal: William the Conqueror.

Singer Frank Turner told the story of the death of William II in the song "English Curse" from his 2011 album England Keep My Bones.

Citations

Talcraft, Barbara (1995). Death of the Corn King: King and Goddess in Rosemary Sutcliff's Historical Fiction for Young Adults. Scarecrow Press. p. 110. ISBN 0810829827.
Callow, John (2017). Embracing the Darkness:A Cultural History of Witchcraft. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 9781786732613.
"A clear and convincing indication of the mediaeval nuances comes not from an historian in the accepted sense but from novelist George Shipway, who makes his contribution to the Tirel/Rufus tie-up via two books, The Paladin and The Wolf Time" Tate, Peter. The New Forest, 900 years after. London : Macdonald and Jane's, 1979. ISBN 9780354043625 (pg.124 )
Pam Spencer Holley, What Do Young Adults Read Next?: A Reader's Guide to Fiction for Young Adults, Volume 2. Detroit, Gale Research, 1994 ISBN 9780810364493 (p.571)

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[1] Talcraft, Barbara (1995). Death of the Corn King: King and Goddess in Rosemary Sutcliff's Historical Fiction for Young Adults. Scarecrow Press. p. 110. ISBN 0810829827.

[2] Callow, John (2017). Embracing the Darkness:A Cultural History of Witchcraft. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 9781786732613.

[3] "A clear and convincing indication of the mediaeval nuances comes not from an historian in the accepted sense but from novelist George Shipway, who makes his contribution to the Tirel/Rufus tie-up via two books, The Paladin and The Wolf Time" Tate, Peter. The New Forest, 900 years after. London : Macdonald and Jane's, 1979. ISBN 9780354043625 (pg.124 )

[4] Pam Spencer Holley, What Do Young Adults Read Next?: A Reader's Guide to Fiction for Young Adults, Volume 2. Detroit, Gale Research, 1994 ISBN 9780810364493 (p.571)

Cultural depictions of English and British monarchs
Kingdom of the English 886–1066	Alfred the Great Edward the Elder Æthelflæd Ælfweard Athelstan the Glorious¹ Edmund the Magnificent¹ Eadred¹ Eadwig the Fair¹ Edgar the Peaceable¹ Edward the Martyr Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Cnut¹ Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson Edgar the Ætheling
Kingdom of England 1066–1649	William I William II Henry I Stephen Matilda Henry II² Henry the Young King Richard I John² Henry III² Edward I² Edward II² Edward III² Richard II² Henry IV² Henry V² Henry VI² Edward IV² Edward V² Richard III² Henry VII² Henry VIII² Edward VI² Jane² Mary I² with Philip² Elizabeth I ² James I³ Charles I³
Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653–1659	Oliver Cromwell⁴ Richard Cromwell⁴
Kingdom of England 1660–1707	Charles II³ James II³ William III and Mary II³ Anne³
Kingdom of Scotland 843–1707 (traditional)	Kenneth I MacAlpin Donald I Constantine I (II) Áed Giric Eochaid Donald II Constantine II (III) Malcolm I Indulf Dub Cuilén Amlaíb Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret John Robert I David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary I James VI ⁵ Charles I⁵ Charles II⁵ James VII⁵ Mary II⁵ William II⁵ Anne⁵
British monarchs after the Acts of Union 1707	Anne George I George II George III George IV William IV Victoria Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II
¹Overlord of Britain. ²Also ruler of Ireland. ³Also ruler of Scotland and Ireland. ⁴Lord Protector. ⁵Also ruler of England and Ireland. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.