The moment King Edgar saw Bishop Woolfstein, he knew he was no longer dead. The bishop's attendant had a silver spoon of green "honey" and fed it to his mouth little by little, after all, in the bishop's current gangrene, only this cannabis-refined drink could relieve the pain.

The year saw the death of many older generations, including Countess Adelle, the mother-in-law of William the Conqueror; The death of King Haakon of Sweden had a direct impact on the Danish civil war, as had happened in Poland – the murder of the Archbishop of Krakow in April, an event that triggered the fall of the Polish king, who had supported the Saxon rebellion and was Emperor Henry's main enemy in the East and an important ally of Pope Gregory.

Things were more delicate in England, where the death of the Archbishop of York would create a power vacuum in an important diocese, and at a time when church reform was in full swing, the Romans had just expressed their desire for the Church of England to accept a candidate from the Lateran Palace. King Edgar, after confirming Bishop Woolfstein's illness, immediately began to prepare to go south to discuss the issue with Bishop Leofrick, and he understood very well the Reformers' idea that the Church not only wanted to purify the interior and return to the path of asceticism and poverty, but also wanted to change the political landscape after the fall of the ancient Roman Empire: for a long time, the Church had to submit to the Western kingdoms that held secular power, and the previous Emperor of Saxony had deposed three popes with his own hands! Edgar, though uninterested in Italian politics and less ambitious to manipulate the Church as Emperor Henry was, was equally unwilling to bow down to the question of tenure, much less to agree to consider himself a vassal of the Pope, as the Croats did.

"We have already offended Rome in the matter of the academy curriculum, and if an Italian bishop is accepted now, then how far will things go? With those statues in Westminster, Your Majesty you might even be declared a heretic! Abbot Bath knew better than the king himself how appalling many of his initiatives were, and last month, during a geography class at King's College, a student of Danish descent openly declared that the "aurora" of the northern world was the Valkyrie harvesting the souls of warriors!

Edgar understood that the dean's complaint was well-intentioned, but he still felt that the people of this era were a little too rigid, and they would even be shocked that they had installed a fountain in the church.

"How has the situation been in France lately?" Edgar didn't want to continue talking about his actions, so he changed the subject.

"Madame Matilda of Tuscany was still arguing with her nephew, and it is said that both Emperor Henry and King Philip had sent envoys to Verdun." The dean said simply.

Madame Matilda was naturally a celebrity, her nephew Godfrey was not very famous at this time, the future guardian of the Holy Sepulchre was currently regarded only as the second son of the Count of Boulogne in the courts of various countries, and his aunt was the lord of Tuscany, a close friend of the Pope, and in some malicious rumors from Emperor Henry's court, she even had a more intimate relationship with the Pope!

"It seems that this time the emperor and the proud lady have finally found common ground." Edgar smiled.

"Send an emissary to the King of France at once, and say that England will support Godfrey's legal rights, and that we can even send reinforcements to the Lowlands if necessary!" Edgar's decision was very abrupt, he had no friendship with the family of the Count of Boulogne, except that the Count of Eustace had been the brother-in-law of Edward the Confessor.

The king knew that the question of the Duchy of Lower Lorraine would not change the situation of the struggle between the Holy See and the Emperor, but he could finally use the incident to draw everyone's attention for the time being, as long as the young Emperor Salian defeated Rudolph, Rome would not care about the appointment of bishops in England.

When he met the Bishop of Canterbury, he was dressed in a white robe, so delicate that it did not seem to stain a trace of dust, and this style of the Church of England may have been questioned by the Romans, Edgar had seen a Mass in south-France in his own time, and was quite impressed by the red tape decoration, but he did not expect that the current Holy Majesty of St. Peter's would be so persistent in keeping the vow of poverty.

"Your Majesty, we have just received news that His Excellency the Bishop of York has passed away."

The words of the Bishop of Canterbury caused everyone to draw a cross at once, and then Chertsey Abbot Woolwold began to complain: "The envoy of the Holy See has arrived, and what a disaster, do you know what the young man said?" As soon as he got off the boat, he began to accuse our church of how depraved it was—for the first time in my life, I was called a ram! ”

Seeing the king's bewildered expression, the Bishop of Canterbury explained: "The Roman side has asked us to abide by the law passed at the last Lent Council, declaring that all clergy marriages will be illegal......

Seeing that there were signs of commotion at the scene, Edgar immediately promised: "We will re-communicate with the Holy See about this matter, and now we need to propose a candidate for the Archbishop of York......"

If the subject of the meeting had just begun to shift, Edgar's words were more effective than the gravitational pull of the celestial bodies, and the discussion immediately returned to its intended trajectory.

It was not without ecclesiastical people in England who supported the Roman Reformation, but even they insisted that an English bishop should be an Englishman—even someone like Stigand. Therefore, Edgar was able to agree with everyone present at least on this issue that the Archbishop of York should be an Englishman, and some clergy from the north even made a more radical claim: that the new candidate should be a Northumbrian. Edgar had already seen the Northumbrian character, these northerners of mixed Danish blood were more conservative than anyone else, they believed in ancient traditions, ancient bloodlines, and their language was closer to the pronunciation of the old days, even after the great influence of the Danes. The Earl of Northumbria now likes to refer to himself as the High Governor of Benicia, as is the custom of the past, as if he still inherited the generational title of Uhtred the Brave, and he still ruled over the "Brinech" who fought against the kingdom of Goldadine in Welsh poetry. Similarly, the previous Archbishops of York were relatives of blood, and the requirement of chastity for the clergy was sometimes a novel concept for these northerners.

On the mainland, Odrik knew of the death of the Bishop of York even before the King of England, and it is even more ironic that the matter was heard from a **.

His world has changed dramatically, and as a spy, what can he do after losing his employer? He remembered that the ** was sitting on the sheets half-naked, looking up and asking him, "Will you come back next week?" ”

He felt a sense of happiness, just because he was a man, for that woman, once he lost his identity as a spy, she was just a *** but he still had other options.

When he saw Drogo again, Odric immediately remembered the tyranny of this Flemish man who had been counting the night, and he suddenly thought to himself: Maybe I'm no different from a **.