uke William of Normandy attacked England in October, 1066, and at Hastings crushed the Saxon military pioneer, Harold II, who quickly had been designated by the Saxon Witan to guard the country. With the passing of Harold II at Hastings, sorted out Saxon resistance fallen. William of Normandy, driving less than three thousand Norman knights, moved north parallel to the drift, took Dover, then judiciously went to Canterbury, where he threatened Archbishop Stigand into giving his approval for Duke William to proceed onward to Westminster and claim the crown.

Along his way toward London, William's aptitude, as a military strategist for fulfilling this objective with constrained ground support, is appeared in the way he encompassed and disconnected towns with least showdown. In any case, when he touched base at the south shore of the Thames opposite London, he mercilessly crushed the land. He exhibition to nationals of London that he could be absolutely brutal, and that he implied business. In this, he was successful to the point that the Saxon pioneer, Edgar the Atheling (the main living male beneficiary of Alfred the Great) and other Saxon nobles in London met William outside the city entryways, where they offered him …show more content…
The knights that battled for him in England were as eager for riches and influence as William was himself. His knights, separately and by and large, were dependably a danger to his power. For Norman knights who battled with him, William's result was in fiefs of land taken from Saxon Thanes. In any case, in England, William added a few spontaneous creations to the medieval framework that were his own. Having seen firsthand in Normandy and France the inconveniences that could emerge when overlords made impulsive awards of fiefs in unendingness, William kept title to all vanquished English grounds in his own hand as crown