At the beginning of 1044, nearly a year after the de facto armistice, William and Henry I finally reached an armistice, and peace was restored between the Norman and French kingdoms.

William did not take much advantage of the terms of the armistice, nor did he cede any territory from the Kingdom of France, and the war began too hastily and was then halted by the Black Death, so that both sides had a sense of anticlimactic.

Affected by the Black Death, William lost his absolute superiority on the battlefield after withdrawing his army to Normandy, and Henry I used this truce to entangle his army with the armies of his allies and place them in the front line, faintly forming a confrontation with the Normans.

This difficult standoff lasted for more than half a year, and both sides were afraid of the Mouse, the French side was afraid of the amazing fighting power of the Normans, and the Normans were afraid of the Black Death that was rampant in the French Kingdom, and they were not afraid of dying on the battlefield but did not want their side to be taken away by the disease out of thin air.

In order to maintain the confrontation situation, but it took a lot of manpower and material resources, since it could not open the situation, William simply ended this senseless war and sent an envoy to negotiate an armistice and peace treaty with Henry I.

Henry I was born on August 4, 1008, and it is now the beginning of 1044, he is already 36 years old, and his opponent William is only sixteen or seventeen years old, which is twenty years younger than Henry I.

As long as William had enough patience, he could have dragged Henry I down for a long time, and he believed that by the time he was thirty years old, Henry I would be about fifty years old, and he would be confident enough to defeat the other party in the face of the aging Henry I William.

The immediate priority was to resolve the situation in the Kingdom of England, and to reap sufficient benefits from the war between Edward and the Godwins, and that taking the throne of England would not be a luxury as long as it was done properly.

In contrast, the Kingdom of France, which was ravaged by the Black Death, was a bit of a frustration, and William had to deal with Henry I, who was hostile to him, and many French princes, who had to deal with them more in order to conquer them.

Now, William also mentioned from the Normans in England that King Edward was going to take action against the Godwins in advance.

To be honest, William was not very optimistic that King Edward would be able to win, after all, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, and the Godwin family, which had the richest southern counties in the kingdom of England, was a well-deserved overlord of the kingdom of England, and even the combined strength of the Duke of Mercia and the Duke of Northumbria was comparable to the Godwin family.

So far, King Edward has been going well, but this is only the light of a surprise attack, and the Black Death's weakening of the Godwin's territory, which gave King Edward a chance to eliminate the Godwin.

Sure enough, William received a secret letter from a liaison messenger sent by Edward, which recorded two things, one was to ask for reinforcements from him as expected, and the other was to tell himself that Harold had been told. Godwinson was sent to Normandy by Edward to conspire with William to get rid of Harold.

William was not very interested in King Edward's request to send troops, now was not the best time for him to appear, and joining the civil war in England too early would only be resisted by the Godwins, and even if they were victorious, it would only be King Edward, not William, who would benefit.

William, who had an insatiable desire for the throne of England, did not want the power of Edward and the Wessex family to be too strong, nor did he want the power of the Godwin family to be weakened too much or uprooted.

He needed the Godwins and King Edward to use the Godwins to undermine the prestige of the Wessex family and King Edward, as they had done in history, while using King Edward and the noble lords who followed him to weaken the Godwins, which was the most desirable outcome he wanted.

When both sides were exhausted, William intervened and bit off a piece of meat from the Godwins and Edward.

William was not very interested in the request to send troops to England, but he gladly agreed to the second request to conspire against Harold.

Harold. As William's fateful enemy in the future Norman conquest, Godwinson naturally wanted to get rid of it earlier, so he had already sent troops to Harold. Godwinson squatted at the place where he was scheduled to land, ready to wait for the opponent to log in and capture him in one fell swoop.

During the waiting period, William was not idle, and the most he did to deal with the repeated attacks of the Black Death was to regroup the disbanded army on standby, and he could immediately send troops to England when the situation changed.

To Harold. Godwinson waited for two weeks on the coast of Normandy without seeing half of Harold, and after some investigation, William learned that Harold was not seen. Sensing that something was wrong, Godwinson immediately marched north to the Duchy of East Anglia and recruited soldiers to prepare for a crusade against King Edward of England.

Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex in East Anglia are home to Harold. Godwinson's territory, which is close to Middlesex County and London, the capital of the Kingdom of England, is an important support for the defense of the capital.

East Anglia, also translated as East Anglia, is the Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by the Angles at the end of the 5th century, and its territory is roughly equivalent to the territory of Norfolk and Suffolk in present-day England, and the Angles come from Scandinavia and North Germany.

The early history of the kingdom is obscure, but the large part of the kingdom's territory in swampy terrain placed it in a favorable defensive position, a factor that made the Kingdom of East Anglia a great power among the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the late 6th century.

King Raedald of the Kingdom of East Anglia (he died circa 627 AD) succeeded Ettlebert of Kent as the overlord of Southern England, and Redwold had helped Edwin defeat King Ettlefrit of the Kingdom of Northumbria and put Edwin on the throne of the Kingdom of Northumbria. But the dominance of the Kingdom of East Anglia was weakened by the rise of the Kingdom of Mercia.

After 650 AD, the Kingdom of East Anglia was a vassal state of the Kingdom of Mercia for a long time.

In 825 AD, the East Anglians, aided by King Egbert of Wessex, staged an uprising against the Kingdom of Mercia, and although they subsequently freed themselves from Mercia's rule, they became vassals of Wessex.

Worse things followed: in the winter of 865-866, the Danes who invaded England spent the winter in the Kingdom of East Anglia, and in 869, the Danes returned, this time not for a short time, and they conquered the entire Kingdom of East Anglia, the Danes destroyed the monasteries in the kingdom and murdered the young king of the East Anglians, Saint Edmund.

East Anglia became part of the Danish jurisdiction through the peace treaty of Wessex and the Danes in 886 when Afritre the Great of Wessex defeated the Danes and forced the Danes to settle in the Danish Territory of the East of England in the 70s of the 9th century. However, the Danes in the Danish region soon reverted to their old ways, not only helping the Vikings invade Wessex, but also constantly invading the kingdom.

Eventually, King Edward the Elder of Wessex conquered Danish law in 917 and unified England, and since then East Anglia has become an earldom of England.

Harold recruited more than 6,000 troops from the three counties of East Anglia, and Earl of Wickes. Godwin's army formed a corner, posing a formidable threat to Middlesex and London.