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William III dies on 8 March 1702 following a riding accident at Hampton Court Palace. William III dies on 8 March 1702 following a riding accident at Hampton Court Palace. Historian Maureen Waller looks back at the final years of William and Mary.
William II (called William Rufus, the Red King) came to the throne in 1087. He was a harsh ruler and few mourned him when he was killed by an arrow--shot by an unknown hand--while he was hunting (see William, Kings of England). Robert had gone off on the First Crusade, to recover the Holy Land from the Turks.s soon as Anne came to the throne in 1702, England entered upon another war with France to break up a threatened combination of France and Spain. This was called in Europe the War of the Spanish Succession. In America it was known as Queen Anne's War.