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

Two monks vying for the abbot’s chair at one of England’s prestigious monasteries each promised King William Rufus handsome rewards for his favour.

Kings of Norway educated in England drew on the experience of English clergy to establish Christianity in their own land.

When Malcolm III, King of Scots, met Princess Margaret of Wessex, he knew at once that he had found a woman capable of setting an example to a whole nation.

Back in the eleventh century English refugees founded New York, but it wasn’t in North America.

In Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, a man from Kent founded a glittering church for English refugees.