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Title: Securing Victory


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Securing Victory
  • Williams actions after the Battle of Hastings

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1066
  • Back to Hastings to rest for 5 days
  • Wait for submission of surviving English
    leadersnone came
  • Then to Dover here opposition was soon crushed
    a castle built
  • After 8 days William moved onto Canterbury where
    the men of Kent made their submissions like
    flies settling on a wound

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1066
  • Meanwhile in London Archbishops, Stigand of
    Canterbury Earldred of York together with earls
    Edwin Morcar rallied behind Aetheling Edgar as
    King
  • Williams response was to defeat a small English
    force at Southwark
  • William then focused on the counties of Surrey,
    Hampshire and Berkshire, Oxfordshire,
    Hertfordshire and Middlesex laying waste as he
    went

4
1066
  • Winchester submitted
  • Stigand submitted at Wallingford
  • By mid November all English leaders from London
    area had submitted
  • William then took London and erected a castle
    (Tower of London)
  • Christmas Day 1066 William crowned King of
    England

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1067
  • William continues to secure areas of England
    including East Anglia and the town of Norwich
  • March 1067 William returns to Normandy
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