A compromise was reached with the Duke of Toulouse, Ponsgishholm, and the Duchy of Toulouse was included halfway, and the entire territory of the Kingdom of France was initially pacified.

It was a pity that this battle was fought by William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine. Morality. Poitu disappeared without a trace, except for Princess Beatrice, a member of the Poitou family.

According to the latest information provided to him by William's intelligence system, the Duke of Aquitaine may have fled south of the Garonne River to the Duke of Toulouse, Ponschiome.

However, these were only William's speculations, and there was no conclusive evidence, and he did not want to ask the Duke of Toulouse to hand over the Duke of Aquitaine.

When William conquered the Kingdom of France, the most hated point was that the relationship between these French nobles and other noble families was too complicated, even if he conquered the other party's territory, he could flee with his family and ask his in-laws and relatives for help.

Take, for example, the Poitou family of William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine, who ruled the region for centuries from Carolingian times.

The family was associated with the Capetian dynasty of France, the Chawarmon family of the Duke of Haute-Lorraine, and the de la Duc de Toulouse. The marriages of the Toulouse family, the Bonsonid family of the Duke of Provence, and the Ivrea family of the Count of Burgundy formed an intricate network of relationships.

In the event of a crisis for the Poitous, the Duke of Aquitaine was able to ask for help from the marital families, which was the fundamental reason why the Poitous had stood firm for centuries.

In fact, it was not just the Poitu family, the Duke of Anjou. House of Anjou, de de Champagne. Van of the Blois family, Duke of Flanders. The Flanders family is one of the best, and the Capetian royal family has taken the marriage to the extreme.

Even William's family of Normandy, to varying degrees, benefited from family marriages, and he inherited the crown of the Kingdom of England on the basis of his grandfather, Richard II's sister Emma Brown. Morality. Normandy was the queen of the English kings "Æthelred the Unprepared" and Cnut the Great.

In addition, William's aunt Allenora was the wife of Baldwin IV, Duke of Flanders, and the Normandy family had been married to the Duke of Brittany for generations. The Rennes family married, and the sister of the ancestor Duke of Rollo also married into the Poitou family.

These marriages gave William the best legal basis for ruling these principalities, and through these marriages, he was able to effectively reduce the resistance of the local nobility and legitimize his rule over these domains.

Having said all this, William's conquest of the Kingdom of France and the uprooting of most of the French nobles actually offended not only the French princes themselves, but also the HRE princes who were closely related to them.

Driven by profit, the princes of the HRE were actively preparing for war, trying to cut off a large piece of meat from the French kingdom in William's hands.

The reason why they did not immediately wage war against the Kingdom of France was entirely due to the invincibility of the Normans.

Think of the Kingdom of England, of the Capetian family and the princes of France, and of the Viking army led by the recently defeated King of Norway, where countless forces hostile to the Normans were destroyed, and their domains, titles, and possessions became the property of William and the Normans.

Armed with these lessons, none of the HRE princes dared to be careless, and to be on the safe side, they prepared to wait for His Majesty Emperor Henry III to return with his army, and then gather under the banner of Salian Caesar to march to France.

William of course knows the thoughts of the HRE princes, because of the behemoth of the HRE Empire, William has studied it in detail, and he can know a thing or two about what the princes of various countries think.

The contradictions within the Holy Roman Empire have always revolved around secular power and clerical power, as well as between the emperor and the German princes and electors.

The main problem of the contradiction between secular power and clerical power is that the religious power of Germany is too strong, the imperial power and the clerical power are constantly fighting, and even the Pope himself can only rely on some of the Lombard nobility, and sometimes even the Normans of Sicily, but the German archbishops can easily win the support of many nobles in South Germany.

The other contradiction that bothered them was between the emperor and the princes and electors of the empire, which could only be regarded as a minor contradiction within the HRE Empire, much less threatening than the fierce struggle between the imperial power and the clergy.

However, the main contradiction within the two HRE Empires was temporarily resolved under the mediation of Pope Leo IX.

In order to deal with the Normans, Pope Leo IX came forward to settle the dispute between the imperial and clerical powers, and at the same time issued an edict to the princes of the HRE, asking them to put aside their disputes and unite against the Normans.

At present, the HRE Empire is the first time that the HRE Empire has gathered together and worked hard in one place.

Faced with this situation, William felt troubled for the first time, and he sent spies several times to secretly contact the princes who had a bad relationship with Emperor Henry III, trying to get them to come out against the emperor, but to no avail.

The close collaboration between the powerful Salian Emperor Henry III and Pope Leo IX brought the HRE Empire together for a brief period of time, a situation that worried William.

The bad news didn't end there, as negotiations between William and Norway and Denmark broke down due to the intervention of Pope Leo IX.

The Kingdom of Norway re-elected the son of Harald IV the Heartless, and was succeeded by Magnus II, Duke of Trongrad, as King of Norway.

Due to the frailty of King Magnus II of Norway, his younger brother and heir, Duke Olaf of the Eastern Kingdom. Inglin served as regent of the kingdom, keeper of the seals, and ruler.

The election of a new king in the Kingdom of Norway meant that King Harald IV of Norway, an important bargaining chip in William's hand, was no longer useful, and negotiations between the two sides finally broke down after several twists and turns.

The Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Denmark, two of William's great enemies, were once again ready to fight him at the instigation of Pope Leo IX.

William could already imagine what the Pope had promised the kings of the two countries, which was nothing more than to allow them to divide England and Normandy, and promise to crown them king.

The bad news is one after another, and one country after another, under the coercion and temptation of the Pope, is preparing to declare war on William, and he has few allies left.

The only allies that could be effectively won were the Kingdom of Castile, while Caesar of the Kingdom of Sicily and Edmund of Sweden. Munso and Andre I of Hungary still oscillated between William and the Pope.