![]() ![]() Only the bishops and a few clergy and monks remained, terrified, in the sanctuary, and with difficulty completed the consecration of the king who was trembling from head to foot’ (Orderic Vitalis). The fire spread rapidly from house to house the crowd who had been rejoicing in the church took fright and throngs of men and women of every rank and condition rushed out of the church in frantic haste. The armed guard outside, hearing the tumult of the joyful crowd in the church and the harsh accents of a foreign tongue, imagined that some treachery was afoot, and rashly set fire to some of the buildings. book 1066 and All That as well as the iconic status of the Bayeux Tapestry. For when Archbishop Ealdred asked the English, and Geoffrey bishop of Coutances asked the Normans, if they would accept William as their king, all of them gladly shouted out with once voice if not in one language that they would. The Viking attacks in England grew so bad that in 1013 the Anglo-Saxon kings. 'At the prompting of the devil, who hates everything good, a sudden disaster and portent of future catastrophes occurred. With Wiliam's coronation in Westminster Abbey, Norman rule of England began. ![]()
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