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Fatally injured when his horse stumbles during military action against the French, William the Conqueror dies. He is replaced on the English throne by his second surviving son, William Rufus, who becomes William II at his coronation at Westminster Abbey.
The much-reluctant-to-serve and fragile Victor III is enthroned as Pope but soon dies.
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