How'd he do it with only like 10 000 dudes?
>>18063814Full plate armor is invincible
>>18063814That was a huge army back then
The Norse and English had exhausted much of their manpower fighting each other.
>>18063814Because after the death of Harold, the Earls individually could not defeat William. Even the two major threats to William's rule, Edgar's attempt to win back the throne and the Danish invasion which both had great support from the local Earls failed.
>>18063814Dude almost bankrupted himself, and even with combined arms managed to turn what should have been an easy rout into a day long slogfest
>>18063862And his grasp on power was so paper thin, someone dropped a helmet outside during his coronation and he thought the crash was an armed death squad come to kill him so he hid in the back shivering in terror.
>>18063862>>18063956And here begins the cope
>>18063956That’s just any king’s grasp on power back then. Reading about the back and forth struggles of Scandinavian kings around that time makes William the Conqueror’s England look stable.
>>18064568>Reading about the back and forth struggles of Scandinavian kings around that time makes William the Conqueror’s England look stable.By that metric just about every Western European monarch had a stable rule.
>>18064659Yes, most kings were about on William the Conqueror’s level in the early medieval period: a house of cards but not as bad as it could be.
