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After the Norman Conquest, thousands of disappointed Englishmen departed for a new life in the Byzantine world.
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William the Conqueror’s chaplain used to tell this story to those who doubted his master’s claim to the English crown.
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Embarrassed by the behaviour of his Norman bishops and abbots, King William I asked monk Guitmond to come over and set an example.
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After winning the English crown at the Battle of Hastings, William of Normandy ensured everyone understood what kind of man their new King was.
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Back in the eleventh century English refugees founded New York, but it wasn’t in North America.
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In Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, a man from Kent founded a glittering church for English refugees.
After King Edward the Confessor died childless, Europe’s princes stepped forward to claim the prize of England’s crown.