William The Conqueror Research Paper
William the conquer
William the conqueror or before that William The bastard, he was many things and went by many different names Duke of Normandy, King of England. William was born at Falaise in 1027 and although not proven it’s said he was already at a young age destined for greatness and his future achievements were anticipated. He was the bastard son of Robert the first the sixth Duke of Normandy. It was said if he were to perish on his travels to Jerusalem that his son would become the new Duke of Normandy. Shortly after his father would perish on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he was appointed the new Duke at the age of 8. At a young age violence was at an uproar at a young age he was already experienced …show more content…
And thus the battle of hasting begins it started in 1066, on October but with Normandy coming out the victor a lot of things would change from Harold’s death in which he got shot with an arrow in the eye with his body so mutilated the only person able to tell the difference was his loved one. Shortly after this William the conqueror was crowned king of England on Christmas. With this crowning many people say that was destined to happen, king, is finally ruling but before all of this England were still at war and there was many that wanted to overthrow William so William creates a new aristocracy castles were immediately built because he was constantly at war with the northern countries finally fed up with all the attacks he decided forcing England into submission and bringing terror and fear to it as well he destroyed are villages robbing agricultural it got so bad in England and they went so poor there were tales and rumors of people eating dogs, cats and even human flesh with about over 100,000 dead it was decades before they could ever recover from such a systemic outrage. Many people thought this way of leadership was bad for England but with ruthless leadership it actually started to show stability in England and in 1072 he would build even more castles all around including the welsh borders even reaches a truce in Scotland with the king of that land as well as England’s noble and French became very familiar with each other as well so as the English language words such as onion, pork, beef and mushroom derive from the French nobility. During this time, King William who was still the Duke of Normandy and The King of England also decide to exercise his powers over the church so much so that a pope couldn’t be acknowledged without his consent. William the conqueror definitely always wanted the church on his side,
William the conqueror or before that William The bastard, he was many things and went by many different names Duke of Normandy, King of England. William was born at Falaise in 1027 and although not proven it’s said he was already at a young age destined for greatness and his future achievements were anticipated. He was the bastard son of Robert the first the sixth Duke of Normandy. It was said if he were to perish on his travels to Jerusalem that his son would become the new Duke of Normandy. Shortly after his father would perish on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he was appointed the new Duke at the age of 8. At a young age violence was at an uproar at a young age he was already experienced …show more content…
And thus the battle of hasting begins it started in 1066, on October but with Normandy coming out the victor a lot of things would change from Harold’s death in which he got shot with an arrow in the eye with his body so mutilated the only person able to tell the difference was his loved one. Shortly after this William the conqueror was crowned king of England on Christmas. With this crowning many people say that was destined to happen, king, is finally ruling but before all of this England were still at war and there was many that wanted to overthrow William so William creates a new aristocracy castles were immediately built because he was constantly at war with the northern countries finally fed up with all the attacks he decided forcing England into submission and bringing terror and fear to it as well he destroyed are villages robbing agricultural it got so bad in England and they went so poor there were tales and rumors of people eating dogs, cats and even human flesh with about over 100,000 dead it was decades before they could ever recover from such a systemic outrage. Many people thought this way of leadership was bad for England but with ruthless leadership it actually started to show stability in England and in 1072 he would build even more castles all around including the welsh borders even reaches a truce in Scotland with the king of that land as well as England’s noble and French became very familiar with each other as well so as the English language words such as onion, pork, beef and mushroom derive from the French nobility. During this time, King William who was still the Duke of Normandy and The King of England also decide to exercise his powers over the church so much so that a pope couldn’t be acknowledged without his consent. William the conqueror definitely always wanted the church on his side,