William, the duke of Normandy: 1048 to 1060

The Norman cavalry drives a deep wedge into the Angevin center, but cannot quite break free before your enemies on either flank show up and box you in. In a short, vicious battle, you are killed fighting to the last man. We doubt that history will even notice that you existed. France continues to develop, without the Anglo-Norman "distraction", into the preeminent European national power.