All of which brings us to Edward the Confessor. In between wars and confessional booths he tended to spend his time working on the Cathedral at Westminster. This turned out to be a Good Thing for Kings and Poets over the ages. Also for pigeons, but they are not all that picky anyway.

Edward was unique among kings almost everywhere at this time in that he thought Rape and Pillage were on the list of Bad Things. On the downside he also thought that Sex in any form was on the list of Bad Things. This did not bode well for the continued line of Kings. He did fnd a way to have a son, who died after having a son. Public School thing I suppose. But on his deathbed Edward,not wanting to be reminded that he had done THE BAD THING,overlooked his grandson and gave the throne to Harold II. This turned out, for the Anglo-Saxon line, to be a very very Bad Thing.

MEANWHILE, across the Channel which was mostly known as that watery thing that was such a bother at the time, in the Duchy of Normandy, the habit of nicknames had also taken hold. This did not appeal at all to the current Duke,for the simple fact that he was known as William the Bastard. Actually he was called in an old form of French,but it did not really sound much better that way.

At the same time that he was looking for a way to earn a new nickname, the women were complaining about having to do the same old tapestries over and over and over again.

When William heard about the coronation of Harold II, who he knew quite well, he had an idea.

William: Eureka!

Well actually it was in that old form of French most likely. But the concept was still the same.

Coming next..the end of the Anglo-Saxon Kings,Billy gets a new nickname and THE YEAR.