Embarrassed by the behaviour of his Norman bishops and abbots, King William I asked monk Guitmond to come over and set an example.

Orderic Vitalis regrets the passing of a society far more refined and advanced than that which supplanted it.

When the Normans came in 1066 they deliberately destroyed English chant, the last survivor in Western Europe of a tradition five centuries old.

When Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham, became the Tower of London’s first prisoner he did not intend making a long stay.

After the Norman Conquest, thousands of disappointed Englishmen departed for a new life in the Byzantine world.