William II of Normandy crushes rebellion
1047
At Val-es-Dunes, the bastard duke of Normandy, still in his late teens, defeated a coalition of rebel vassals with French royal help in a cavalry clash on the plain south of Caen. The victory secured his hold on the duchy and began his consolidation into the warlord who would invade England.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.