_Sons of the Conqueror--William Rufus and Walter Tyrell._--Sir N. W.
Wraxall (_Posthumous Memoirs_, vol. i., p. 425.) says of the Duke of
Dorset:
"His only son perished at twenty-one in an Irish foxchase: a mode of
dying not the most glorious or distinguished, though two sons of
William the Conqueror, one of whom was a King of England, terminated
their lives in a similar occupation."
Who are these _two_ sons? William Rufus would be one of them; but who is
the other? And whilst I am on this subject, I would inquire, _on what
authority_ does the commonly received story of William II.'s death by the
hand of Sir Walter Tyrrell rest?