_Sons of the Conqueror_ (Vol. v., pp. 512. 570.).--I believe after all that
Sir N. Wraxall is right. According to the old chroniclers, _three_ members
of the Conqueror's family met their death in the New Forest.
1. _Richard_, his _second son_, is said to have been killed by a stag in
the New Forest when hunting, and to have been buried at Winchester in the
choir of the cathedral there.
2. _Henry_, youngest son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and _grandson_ of the
Conqueror, was accidentally slain in the New Forest.
3. _William Rufus_, third son of the Conqueror, fell in a similar way and
in the same place.