1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The History of England, the Law of Primogeniture
There was no longer any possibility of a real challenge the power of william and his successors. The old dynasties, both of wessex and the danes were totally swept aside. Succession is predetermined. It's no longer up to this whiten. It's automatic. This led to hundreds of years with much fewer succession disputes. But there were also more bad kings, kings who were mentally unfit, untrustworthy,. rulers like richard the second and king john whose reigns led to conflict and periods of chaos.
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