There is a good reason for William to be the heir to the throne of England, first of all, the succession system in early England was basically mixed, but it was still mainly based on blood succession. I've done a little bit of research before, and father-son and brother-brother inheritance are the two most common types. But when it came to choosing an heir to the throne, the Council and the Church also had a great influence, and the king could not appoint the heir as he pleased.

As the Wessex dynasty was on the verge of extinction, the only member of his family was Edward the Confessor's nephew, Edward the Exile. Edmondson was alone, and he had no children of his own, so William, a cousin of King Edward, also had the right to inherit the Kingdom of England.

Whether in terms of fame or strength, the "exile" Edward under the fence. Edmondson could not be compared to William, who was already the Norman king, from any point of view, let alone the "exile" Edward. Edmondson was now in William's hands and married his sister Adelaide. Morality. Normandy as a wife, no matter how you look at the "exile" Edward. Edmondson did not have the strength or courage to compete with William for the throne of England.

At the present council, the princes of the North proposed to canonize Edmond the Exile, son of the previous king of Wessex, Edmond the Exile, as the heir to the throne of England. Edmondson was much easier to deal with than the mighty Norman King William.

Even they had the opportunity to bring the "exile" Edward. Edmondson is in control, and like a puppet in their hands, they can expand their power and interests by ordaining a puppet king.

William immediately rejected the other party's ulterior motives and took out the "exile" Edward. Edmondson renounced his right to the throne of England in his own hand, as a way to prove that he was the rightful heir to the throne of England.

In front of the paperwork presented by William, all the English nobles who wanted to refute were speechless.

William's insistence on his right to the throne of England can only be derived from the only marriage between the Duke of Normandy and the West Sex royal family in history: Emma of Normandy married Ethelred II the Unready, the King of England.

Many sources say that he was cousin of Edard the Confessor, the King of England, but according to other sources, it was his father, Duke Robert the Devil, who was actually a cousin to Edward the Devil, because Emmanai was the sister of Robert's father, Richard II of Normandy, and their father was the Fearless Richard I the Fearless of Normandy.

In this case, William is only Emma's nephew, the cousin of Edward the "Confessor", and what inheritance rights can the cousin have? On the other hand, Harold II, who was killed by him, is believed by many sources to have insufficient confidence to inherit the throne, but his mother Gisha is the niece (or grandniece) of King Sween of Norway, that is, the cousin niece (or cousin) of King Canute, the son of Swein, from the point of view of Western women's inheritance, he has at least the same inheritance rights as William, because King Canute is also a officially crowned monarch recognized by all England; Even judging from the fact that Gisa is a member of the royal family and William is not, Harold is more justified than William in the eyes of everyone.

From this, Harold's brother, the surviving Godwin family, Swain. Godwin, Tostig. Godwin and others both had the right to inherit the throne of England, at least in terms of legitimacy on a par with William.

Naturally, as losers, the members of the Godwin family have lost the qualifications to inherit the throne, and the previous strength of the Godwin family has offended many Anglo-Saxon nobles, and they are not willing to recommend this disgusting Godwin family member to inherit the throne of England.

The atmosphere was at a stalemate, and the local nobles of England, led by Fang Bo in the north, were unable to propose a more suitable heir to the throne than William, and were unwilling to recognize William's succession.

"My Excellency, when His Majesty Edward was in exile in Normandy, he promised me that he would make me heir to the throne of England if I helped him to eradicate the House of Godwin.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a document written by His Majesty Edward himself, with His Majesty's signature on it, and if you have any doubts, you may come and check the document to confirm whether what I said is true. William decided to use one of his trump cards, a document written by Edward himself at the time, as evidence of his succession to the throne of England.

"It is indeed written by His Majesty Edward himself, and it clearly records that His Majesty Edward promised His Majesty the Norman King the succession to the throne of England at that time, and what His Majesty the Norman King said is indeed true." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Fr. Stigander, announced the results of the examination in front of the public, and indeed as William said, Edward promised William the succession to the throne of England.

Father Stigande's side was a hard blow to the crowd, he was one of only two archbishops in England, and his side meant that William controlled nearly half of the power of the powerful church in England.

Seeing the swaying faces of Leofrick and the others, William decided to add fuel to the fire, and he invited the banner of the Holy Cross that he had obtained from Gregory VI, indicating that he had the support of the Holy See for his succession to the throne of England.

Under the banner of the Holy Cross, the church of England was completely on William's side, and with the votes of William and the Norman nobility of England, his supporters were close to half at the Council of the Magi.

The support of the Holy See was the most important bargaining chip in William's hands, which could ignore William's status as an illegitimate son and give William the rightful right to inherit the throne of England.

In the history of the Kingdom of England, the Church Reformation also affected the right to succession to some extent, for example, Ethestan was an illegitimate child according to the Roman Church at the time, and his brother was the legitimate heir (fortunately, his brother died at the right time), and Edgar was also an anti-king in the early days. Edgar's personal multiple marriages/divorces for political reasons further complicate the issue of inheritance, which presumably led to the Edward Martyr incident.

However, none of this mattered, one of them was an illegitimate child and the other was an anti-king, but this did not prevent them from inheriting the throne of England, just because they had the support of the Holy See, and the slightest obstacle could be ignored.

The same is true of William, who has been in the same situation for William, first the Earl of Cornwall, then the Duke of Northumbria and others, and the only ones who are still stubbornly resisting are only a few people, including the old stubborn Duke of Mercia.