The year 1037 was a very important year, in which many wars broke out, but at the same time a great king and a great emperor were born.

In this year, William defeated the Normandy aristocratic rebellion led by Cay of Burgundy and recovered the entire Duchy of Normandy, while he also defeated the powerful Duchy of Anjou and seized the county of Enman in the south, thwarting the plot of King Henry I of France to split the Duchy of Normandy.

Also in this year, on September 4, 1037, Ferdinand, Count of Castile, William's most respected father-in-law, in the Battle of Tamaron on this day, Count Ferdinand killed his suzerain, King Bermudor III of León, and seized the throne of King of León, called King Ferdinand I of Castile and León.

The war was initially waged by Ferdinand's suzerain, King Bermudo III of León, in order to reclaim the disputed territory between the Cia and Pisuega rivers from Castile and his sister-in-law Ferdinand.

Ferdinand of Castill, of course, would not give in, and as the son of King Sancho III of Navarre and Count of Castile, he was supported by numerous nobles from the Kingdom of Navarre and around Castile to form a large coalition against King Bermudo III.

As a destined king blessed by the Spirit of God, Count Ferdinand successfully defeated the army of Belmudor III with inferior forces and won the final victory of the Battle of Tamaron.

On the other hand, the tragic King Bermudo III of León unfortunately fell from his horse during the retreat, and the knights around him did not have time to rescue him during the hasty retreat, and finally died by the spear or spear assassination of the infantry.

Ferdinand, Count of Castile, was crowned King of León after his wife, Sancha, was the heir to the Kingdom of León after he defeated and killed King Bermudor III.

At the same time, he also merged the county of Castille and the many eastern realms of León into the Kingdom of Castile, placed the crown of King of Castile on his head, and took King of Castile as his main title, calling King Ferdinand I of Castile and León.

At this time, William's father-in-law, King Ferdinand I, was only 27 years old, and he was able to establish such a great feat at a young age, and he could be called a son of the plane blessed by God.

It took more than a decade for William the Conqueror to cross the English Channel at the age of 39 to seize the crown of his first and only Kingdom of England, and it took more than a decade to oppress the nobility of the Kingdom of England to submit to his rule, compared to the process of Ferdinand I seizing the throne of León and claiming to be the Emperor of Spain.

The following year, 1038 the following year, Ferdinand I seized Galicia, which was occupied by the rebellious nobles, and Portugal from the Moorish pagans, who united Galicia and Portugal into the Kingdom of Galicia.

Since then, Ferdinand I has worn three crowns on his head, namely the King of Castile, the King of León and the King of Galicia, and has completely ruled the Christian kingdom in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, which has almost exceeded the kingdom of Asturias in its heyday two hundred years ago.

The Kingdom of Asturias was the first Christian kingdom to arise in the Iberian Peninsula after the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom, and its royal family was descended from the Visigothic Kingdom. Asturias later split into several parts, such as León and Castile.

After ruling three kingdoms, in 1039, Ferdinand I began to claim to be emperor of Spain, although this move caused the displeasure of Henry III and the Pope of the Holy Roman Empire due to the implicit declaration of being the leader of all Christendom and the usurpation of the Roman Empire, but they had nothing to do with the powerful Emperor Ferdinand I until their death.

In order to congratulate His Majesty Ferdinand I, King of Castile and León, to reconcile the two sides, and to consolidate the alliance between Normandy and Castile, William sent his Keeper of the Seals and his uncle, Baron Adolf, to Burgos in Castille with a thousand sets of cavalry plates to congratulate King Ferdinand I.

In addition to the 1,000 sets of cavalry plate armor that sold for 30,000 pounds of silver, in order to learn from Ferdinand and his army the experience of Spanish warfare and cavalry tactics, William also sent a team of thirty students to the Kingdom of Castile. Morality. Conteville and Robert. Morality. Conteville was among them, mostly students of the Knight Academy, the seed of William's future officers.

Of course, William did not forget to bring his future daughter-in-law, Ulaka, and his brother-in-law, Sancho, the future King of Casstill, their favorite gifts, two docile and noble thoroughbred foals.

It was also in the autumn of 1037 that King Harald I of England and King Hardnut II the Strong of Denmark joined forces to attack the Kingdom of Norway, and the two jointly launched a war with the Kingdom of Norway in order to compete for the throne of the Kingdom of Norway.

The war began when Magnus of the House of Ingrin, who was only a twelve-year-old boy, was elected king of Norway after the death of his younger brother, King Swain II of Norway, two years earlier.

Since the current king of Norway, Magnus, is just a puppet pushed out by the tribal nobles and cannot control the power of the Kingdom of Norway, so the two kings of the Knutlin family seized the opportunity.

After a year of preparation for war, King Harald of England and King Hardknout of Denmark declared war on Norway, landing in Norway from the west and from the south, respectively, and attacking the capital of Oslo.

However, William was not optimistic about the two kings of the Cnutlin family, not only because the two of them had their own evil intentions, the alliance between the two sides was not united, and the cold weather in Norway was also an important reason, and their soldiers were not as good as the native Norwegians who were adapted to this cold climate.

This cold climate is the natural enemy of all armies, not only does it cause frostbite and a lot of non-combat attrition, but the cold weather makes iron swords more fragile and inflexible, and usually a sword without grease will break in two after one or two slashes.

On the Norwegian side, on the other hand, although their ruler is only a puppet, in the face of an existential crisis, they will unite and use all their strength to face the invasion.

Of course, it was a good thing for William that the Kingdom of England and Denmark were caught up in war with Norway, which showed that the other side had no experience of targeting the Duchy of Normandy, after all, they were both marauding Vikings, and when they heard about the riches of Normandy, they were likely to come here to plunder.