William I (September 2, 1028¨CSeptember 9, 1087), first king of the Norman dynasty of England (1066¨C1087), nicknamed William the Conqueror

Behold, my lord, for the glory of God, I have held England with my hands, and England is mine.All that is mine, that is, yours¡ªthe speech of William I when he landed in England; coward, behold, I am William here!¡ªWilliam I strikes his ministers in battle.

King William I of England, known as the Conqueror, did only one big thing in his life, which was later referred to as the Normandy Conquest, and his motivation may have come from his own ambition, but had a significant impact on the historical process of Britain and even the world.

William the Conqueror is a tough, cruel, and energetic man. There are two factors that have an undeniable role in William's character and his influence on history. The first is his childhood. He is his father, nicknamed "Devil" Robert and the son born by his kidnapped farm girl Alete, but he is the only son. Robert Faulkner persuades the Norman aristocracy to establish William's right to inherit. In 1035, William's eight-year-old succession, his childhood has caused him to experience more ridicule, discrimination and challenge than others, and his three guardians and teachers have been killed.

Another factor was the tradition of Normandy. The Duchy of Normandy was founded in 841 as a product of the French king's helpless invasion of the Normans. The Duchy exercised centralized rule, had a relatively fixed military power, and a relatively fixed fiscal income, and had a tradition of Norman inherent arms and navigation. These factors helped William's conquest and influenced a series of institutions he later established in Britain.

Young William I had initially demonstrated his talent. He first consolidated his position with the opposition in the interior under the support of the Pope in the Battle of Valladolid, and then used the internal contradictions of the Southern Manhattan and the Duchy of Brittany to annex them. At this time, William began to throw his ambitions into the far-reaching England.

At that time, King Edward the Confessor of England (1042-1066) was William's cousin and had no children, and was said to have promised William to inherit his throne when he visited England in 1051. While King Edward's nephew, Harold, the other powerful rival to the throne, was trapped in the Principality of Normandy, he also acknowledged William's right to inherit the throne of England. But when King Edward the Confessor died in 1066, under Edward's advice, the English Council elected King Harold.

When William was ready for the shipment of the personnel, everything was ready, only due to the southwestern wind, but never expected, delayed for more than forty days. Later history proved that it was this more than forty days of waiting, changed the contrast of forces, so that the victory plain was inclined to William's side.

At the time, another challenger of the throne of England, the descendants of King Knut the Great, Norwegian King Harald III first landed in northern England, was on the southern coast guarding William Harold, was forced to battle north. When on September 28th, when the army of William the Great landed in southern England, was faced with what had just defeated the King of Norway, exhausted and seriously reduced Harold's army. On October 14th, the famous Battle of Hastings, Harold and his two brothers both died in the battlefield, and William was victorious. William then led the army straight to London, so that at Christmas he was crowned King of England, and the reign of the King of Normandy (1066-11-35).

As a foreign regime, William was initially resisted by the Anglicans. William brutally suppressed the rebellion around the country, but also destroyed local forces, prepared for his centralized rule, and by 1171 resisted basically. William ordered the seizure of the property of the English aristocracy, leaving a seventh of it to himself, the other division to the Norman aristocracy that followed him, and reorganized the central administrative and judicial institutions of England in accordance with the system of the Principality of Normandy, while resisting the pressure of the Roman Pope, persistently retaining the right to appoint the bishops of England. England formed the most powerful king in the Western European nation at the time.

William¡¯s greatest influence on England¡¯s domestic affairs was the two things he accomplished two years before his death. One was the Salisbury Oath of 1086, in which he asked feudal masters at all levels to submit to him and established the principle of ¡°My subjective subjective or my subjective¡±; the other was the Last Judgment Book, in order to control the country¡¯s land, property and income, to provide a basis for taxation, and to ensure royal income, and he sent people across the country for censorship. Because his individual investigators were like murderers, the contents of the investigation were very detailed, making the investigators like thin ice, as in receiving the judgment of God¡¯s apostles in the last days, so the results were called the Last Judgment Book, which was officially

In 1087, as a result of a territorial dispute with Pope Philip I, William joined the battle with France and seized the Fort Sement near Paris. The victory was that the hero William I died by accident, otherwise his influence on history would be even greater.

The conquest of the conqueror William, the greatest impact on history, has made Britain once again involved in the complex relationship of the central European region since the Roman Empire (the former conquest of Britain, but the Normans are more civilized than Britain), because the British king possessed territory in France, the British and French royal family became a pair of continuous, still messy wicked, and in the following centuries the exchanges and clashes between the two countries became one of the topics of Western European political life. This conquest changed the historical process of England, even English changed, a large number of new words added to English. He brought many new things to this island, such as the jury system, and later the British legal self-construction system, is at the end of this.

William I brought the traditional centralized rule and military establishment of Normandy to Britain, a major turning point in British history. Before that, Britain had been invaded and conquered, and since he began, Britain had been transferred to attack, and subsequent wars were mainly held only on the territory of others, although these two traditions gradually degraded in the subsequent development of Britain.

Review: England has been attacked and harassed by the Norwegians of Northern Europe for hundreds of years, but ultimately the island nation was conquered by the Norwegians on the other side of France. The Normandy conquest appeared to be a coincidental historical event, in fact it occurred as a result of the development of the historical trend at the time, that is, that the Great Britain Island was inevitably becoming more and more closely connected with the European continent and eventually could only be completely merged into the European political system.