On April 24, 1062, Easter, William enthroned St. Peter's throne as the new Pope of John X, the former Archbishop of Normandy, Hamelin, his rival pope.

Also on this day, William could not wait for John X to crown himself as Emperor of the Roman Empire, the great Augustus and Caesar.

This day can be said to be the most glorious day of William's life, he finally won the throne of the Roman Empire for himself through more than 20 years of hard work, and became a new generation of Charlemagne.

"Long live the Roman Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Long live the Roman Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Long live the Roman Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

The Normans, the French, the Italians, the Saxons, the Scots, the Vikings, the Irish, the Welsh, the Bretons, the Low Dutch, all of them cheered and jumped from the bottom of their hearts for the revival of the Roman Empire and William's becoming Emperor of Rome.

Since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Roman Empire was once again established by the Normans and peoples led by William, although the Roman Empire has been destroyed for more than 500 years, the spiritual and cultural heritage of Rome is still deeply imprinted in the souls of all European peoples, even after a long dark Middle Ages.

Now that a monarch of God's will has finally re-established the Roman Empire, how can this not make everyone excited?

Moreover, today is Easter, the most important holiday in Christianity, and in a sense, Easter is more important than Christmas, because it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus on the third day after his crucifixion.

The miraculous event of Jesus' "resurrection" is the foundation of Christianity, so many Christian festivals are determined according to the date of Easter, such as Septuacost 70 days before Easter, Pentecost for 50 days, Lent that lasted for 40 days, Good Friday (the day after the crucifixion, the day after the Last Supper), Ascension (Ascension after Jesus' resurrection) for 40 days, and Pentecost for 50 days. These festivals lasted for a long time to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus.

Isn't it just the right thing that William was able to enter the city of Rome and be crowned Emperor of Rome on such an important day?

Even William himself never imagined that he would be able to enter the city of Rome on Easter Day and be crowned Emperor of the Roman Empire, which was simply a sign that he was the chosen one.

"God's will, natural imperial power!"

I don't know who shouted this slogan, and everyone immediately shouted:

"God's will, natural imperial power!"

"God's will, natural imperial power!"

More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians shouted together, what an exciting scene, William only wanted to say in the face of this situation: "What more can you ask for? ”

After the coronation, William did not completely relax, but began to intensify the purge of the Holy See.

Because of the hasty flight of Pope Nicholas and Grand Vice-President Hildebrand, there were still many bishops and clergy in the Vatican and Rome who opposed William, and these people were an obstacle to William's rule in Rome and Italy.

In order to completely remove these obstacles, William immediately dismissed all cardinals, bishops, priests and other persons close to Pope Nicholas, Grandclad of Hildebrand, and Cluny, and then appointed a large number of his own close Norman priests as cardinals, cardinal priests, bishops of Ravenna, bishops of Florence, and bishops of Lucca.

In order to completely eradicate the influence of Cluny's in Rome and weaken the status of the Holy See as a Christian leader, William announced that the Pope, the Holy See, and all the cardinals and bishops would be moved to the Abbey of Saint-Denis in Paris.

In the future, the Abbey of Saint-Denis will be the seat of the Holy See, the Church of Paris will become the head of the Catholic Church, and the Holy See will be reduced to the diocese of St. Peter, with a patriarch in charge of the affairs of the Church in Rome.

William's method is somewhat similar to the historical prisoner of Avignon, more than 200 years later, at the end of the 13th century, King Philip IV of France sent men to invade the papal residence and beat Pope Boniface to death at eight o'clock.

In 1305, under pressure from Philip IV, a French bishop became pope and took the name Clement V. Then, four years later, in 1039, Philip IV moved the papacy to Avignon, near the French border in northern Italy, under French control, and forced the pope to agree to the right of the French king to tax the church and the clergy, to dissolve the Knights Templar, who owned a large amount of property, and to acknowledge that the secular kingdom was directly established by God, and that the French were God's chosen people, just like the Israelites in the Old Testament.

For more than half a century, the Holy See became a puppet of the Kingdom of France, and several successive popes were all French, and they had to rely on the power of the French king to connect with the Cardinal Conference, which is the famous prisoner of Avignon.

Then some people may wonder how strong the Pope and the Holy See were at that time, so that there was the later Cassano Castle Incident, which greatly weakened the imperial power of the HRE Emperor, and then launched several crusades, successfully destroyed Constantinople, and completely unified the Eastern and Western Churches, so why was it helpless against the King of France?

As we can see from the struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV, the Pope basically fought against the HRE by supporting the opposing emperor within Germany, and then the princes allied forces to force the emperor to make concessions, or looked for help outside Germany, such as the Kingdom of Sicily, such as the Kingdom of France.

This may have been extremely effective against the Holy Roman Emperor, but for the French king, who had long established the authority of the monarchy in the late Middle Ages, this kind of agitation of the vassals in the country against the French king would have no effect, because the French church supported the French king, and the pope would be kidnapped by the opposition sent by the French king to reach a united papal state.

From this point of view, the same is true of William, although the Pope's previous strategy against the Holy Roman Empire has been tried and tested, but when dealing with William, who is a powerful king, especially after he has the support of France and the Church of England, this trick will not have any effect, but will cause William's hostility.

On the one hand, William was proud and ostentatious about his triumphant march to France, while Pope Nicholas and Hildebrand, who had absconded from Salerno, were preparing to go to the court of Palermo in Sicily to pay homage to their ally, King Caesar of Sicily. Morality. Outwell asks for help.