On March 11, 1049, William's elaborate wedding finally took place at the newly built Westminster Abbey.

William chose to have his wedding at Westminster Abbey rather than at the newly built Windsor Castle, as St George's Chapel in the lower part of Windsor Castle had not yet been completed.

Even after the construction of St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle was completed, he did not have time to find enough priests, priests and priests to celebrate his wedding.

In all of England, the only one worthy of England, the Norman King William I and the Spanish princess of Castile Urraca. The only place where Jimena was married was Westminster Abbey, where the coronation ceremony was held.

What's more, this wedding was not only attended by many Norman nobles, but also the Spanish King of Castile Ferdinand I and Queen Sancha, the three Castile princes Sancho, Alfonso and Garcia and William's sister-in-law Avella. Jimena, as well as many Spanish nobles everywhere.

More than 300 people attended the wedding on both sides alone, including Garcia V of Navarre, Ramiro, King of Aragon, and Ansaldo, the governor of Genoa. Doria, Duke of Barcelona, Ramon Bedenville. Morality. Duke Gichiome VII of Barcelona and Aquitaine. Morality. Poitou, Duke of Gascony, Benate II. Morality. Gascony, Ponschiome, Duke of Toulouse. Morality. Toulouse, Duke of the Netherlands, Floris. Hrufein and other kings and princes attended the wedding.

In addition, Pope Leo IX, King Henry I of France, King Harald the Heartless of Norway, King Swain II of Denmark, King Edmund the Elder of Sweden, Duke of Lower Lorraine Friedrich. Morality. Caesar, Duke of Luxembourg and Apulia. Morality. Bonifacio, Duke of Outville, Tuscany and Spoleto. Advance. Monarchs such as Cassano and the Duke of Saxony also sent nobles and diplomatic envoys to watch the ceremony.

Among the monarchs who attended the wedding in person, King García V of Navarra and King Ramiro of Aragon were both members of the Jimena family and were related to the same family as Urraca.

Both kings attended the wedding as relatives of the woman.

However, the two monarchs did not seem to be very happy, and did not seem to be willing to see Ferdinand I of Spain and William I of England and the Norman kingdom enter into an alliance.

On the Iberian Peninsula, Ferdinand I had already overwhelmed the two of them, and if he had formed an alliance with William, a powerful monarch, Navarra and Aragon would never have the future.

As both ambitious monarchs, they also had their own ambitions for revenge, but they were suppressed by Ferdinand the Great, and could only retreat to the side of the Pyrenees, unable to expand further.

Because in Navarre and Aragon, it was inevitable that the emir state of Zaragoza, a vassal state of Ferdina the Great, would not sit idly by once they waged a holy war against Zaragoza.

Now, the monarchs of these two countries can only survive in the shadow of Ferdinand the Great.

Faced with an invitation to the wedding of the powerful conqueror and Ferdinand the Great's future son-in-law, William I, the two kings had no reason or audacity to refuse.

Viceroy of Genoa, Ansaldo. Doria, Duke of Barcelona, Ramon Bedenville. Morality. The Barcelona duo attended William's wedding, more because they wanted to make an alliance with William.

As trade in the Mediterranean grew, relations between England and the Norman kingdoms, the principality of Barcelona and the Republic of Genoa grew closer.

The Duke of Barcelona, for military security reasons, decided to conclude a treaty of alliance with William and Genoa to strengthen the ties between the three parties.

Duke Gichom VII of Aquitaine. Morality. Poitou, Duke of Gascony, Benate II. Morality. Gascony, Ponschiome, Duke of Toulouse. Morality. Toulouse, Duke of the Netherlands, Floris. Hrufein and other kings and princes came in person, more curious about the newly powerful monarch, who wanted to see for themselves the monarch who had defeated France, England, Ireland and Wales.

And the rest of the kings and princes who could not attend in person, but also sent envoys, were mostly out of respect for William.

This shows that William, as the Norman king and the king of England, has been recognized and accepted by the majority of European countries, and is no longer a monarch who is ridiculed as a monkey.

However, these monarchs who sent envoys to the wedding also had different attitudes towards William, such as King Henry I of France who was hostile and cautious towards William, and did not want to start a war lightly.

Pope Leo IX did not have any favorable opinion of William, and regarded him as a heretic with the Anglican Church headed by him, but it was only when the situation of Cluny's reform was more severe and Hildebrand made peace with him that he and William reached peace.

And like the Norwegian King 'Heartless' Harald, the Danish King Swain II, and the Swedish King 'Elder' Edmond are more of a co-opter, some of them are deeply involved in the battle for the throne and cannot extricate themselves, and some are challenged by the big nobles in the country, so they need the support of William.

In addition, the Duke of Tuscany and Spoleto, Bonifacio. Advance. Cassano was one of William's special targets.

As the most important princes of Italy, the Duke of Tuscany and Di Di. The Cassano family is an important pawn in William's Mediterranean strategy, and if the two sides reach an alliance, they can not only be used to counterbalance the growing power of the Duchy of Apulia, but also to insert a knife in the Holy Roman Empire at a critical moment.

For example, the historical Cassano Castle event was led by the Tuscan lady, Matilda and the Pope.

Diplomatic tasks will naturally be carried out by foreign secretaries and prime ministers who are specifically responsible for foreign affairs, and William does not take a stand lightly on the demands of all parties.

The royal wedding between William and Ulaka was one of the most anticipated and watched weddings to date, with more than 10 kings and monarchs attending, and as many as 1,000 foreign royals, government representatives, and diplomatic envoys invited to London to watch the ceremony.

On the morning of March 11, thousands of Normans and Englishmen took up their positions in the streets, waiting day and night, and the windows of the buildings along the way were also full of people watching.

On the 3.2-kilometer-long street from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey, where the royal motorcade passed, there were already crowds of people watching the ceremony and watching the excitement, estimated to be as many as tens of thousands.

The wedding of the century took place in a roar of cheers.

During the ceremony, King Ferdinand I of Castile, England, the Norman King William I, Princess Ulraca of Castile, and several of her younger siblings rode in a traditionally decorated royal carriage, escorted by royal guards dressed in red samurai costumes and plate armor on tall horses.