William Rufus loved hunting. Really loved hunting. He would have been more than happy to have spent all day, every day tearing after game through the forests of England. This was just as well really, as much of England had been turned into a giant playground for the Norman nobility that had assumed control of the country after the 1066 invasion. One of the first things that Rufus’s father, William I, also known as William the Conqueror, did upon seizing the throne after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, was…
