That was over 950 years ago.
On Christmas Day, December 25, 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, who became the Conqueror, was crowned by the Archbishop of York with a golden crown set with diamonds and precious stones, in the cold Westminster Abbey .
The clamor of his men is such, says the legend, that a movement of panic wins the crowd and leads to the sacking and the burning of neighboring houses.
The Duke becomes William I, King of England.
Two months earlier, on October 14, he snatched the island from the hands of Harold, the Saxon king, after a day of bitter fighting on a green English plain.
A very "British" Guillaume, imagined by an English engraver from the beginning of the 20th century.
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It is a feat that Guillaume has just accomplished: in less than nine months, he managed to cross the Channel with 25,000 men, 5,000 horses, aboard 1,000 warships built on the entire coast of his duchy.
Soldiers from all over the continent, in search of glory, titles, riches.
Normans, of course, but also Bretons, Manceaux,
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