Capitolo 14
position for William to occupy would be between the city and this army in
the north, a position which you/he/she could easily reach him as him did, from his
crossing to Wallingford. If the earlses had not abandoned London, this was
he/she anchors the best position cutting them from their his/her own country and the,
city from the region from where reinforcements has to come if theirs came at all.
A long sweep on a hostile city was strategy of favourite of William.
From of the point along this line of March between Duty and Wallingford,
William had freed a strength to assure the subjugation of Winchester. This
city was of the considerable importance, both because it was the old reality
residence and anchor the financial centre of the state, and because it
it was the abode of Edith, Edward's queen the Confessor, to whom it
as part of its dowry had been assigned. The subjugation of the city seems
to have been immediate and completely satisfactory to William that confirmed
her Mrs. widower of England in his/her right and it showed later of the favour to
the monks of the new cathedral. William of Poitiers, the duke's chaplain,
who possibly accompanied the army on this march,[2] and he/she wrote an account
of these events non long later it tells us, that to Wallingford Stigand,
Archbishop of Canterbury, entered and made subjugation to his/her master. There
it is not any reason to doubt this affirmation, although you/he/she has been called in
question. The best reporters English they omit his/her name from the list of
those that submitted when London surrendered him. The tide of the success had been
a way flowing from strongly when the Normans disembarked. The condition of things
to London any truth allowed him it hopes that this tide could be checked. A man of
The type of Stigand could have depended above for seeing that if the success of William were
inevitable, a first subjugation would be best that a slow. If
Stigand went above from William to Wallingford, it is a clear commentary on
the helplessness of the party of resistance in London.