The tradition of coronation of kings as a political ritual has existed in England since ancient times and continues to this day.

According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, the coronation of the English king dates back to the coronation of King Edgar in 973 AD.

Coronation of English Kings The coronation of British medieval kings comes from a combination of Germanic and Christian traditions.

From the perspective of Christian tradition, as Christianity spreads, the church needs the protection and support of the royal power in order to make Christianity more widely adherent, and the royal power also needs the deification of religious ceremonies to strengthen the legitimacy of its power and thus consolidate its rule.

Therefore, the royal power and the ecclesiastical power began to gradually cooperate and use each other.

It was not until the middle of the 8th century and the 9th century that the church began to play an important role in the enthronement of kings, with the pope or bishop anointing the king and wearing a crown as a symbol of royal power.

The coronation ceremony, including the coronation process, the coronation oath, the coronation symbol awarded to the king, and other traditions have undergone changes and innovations in the lineage.

By the time of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, the coronation ceremony was complete and rich, including a coronation procession, a coronation anointing, a dinner after the coronation, a jousting tournament and various banquets that followed.

The coronation ceremony has undergone a long process of development and is still based on the tradition of previous coronations.

In order to make his coronation ceremony more perfect, William naturally added many procedures that were not included in the coronation ceremony in later generations, including a series of activities such as the coronation procession, the dinner after the coronation, and the horse jousting tournament.

William aimed to exert political influence and demonstrate the authority of the king by engaging with his subjects through events such as coronation processions and promoting political decisions.

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After the coronation was officially over, William began to exercise his authority as King of England.

However, when William actually became king, he was able to realize the constraints of the Council of the Magi and the hindrance of royal power.

In the 5th and 7th centuries AD, the Anglo-Saxons took advantage of the collapse of the Roman Empire to conquer the central and southern parts of Great Britain and establish seven kingdoms in England, large and small, whose kings and representatives of the nobility formed "councils of the wise" to govern the country.

Later, the Norman dynasty (1066-1154) established the system of "great councils" on the basis of the Council of the Magi.

At that time, in general, the expenses of the royal family, whether used for private or official purposes, were paid from the king's income.

The feudal tax levied by the king was in fact limited, and the amount of it could not exceed the limit permitted by custom.

In case of an emergency, such as a war, when additional financial resources were needed, the king had to seek large donations from the feudal nobility, and the channel was the "Great Council".

The Council of the Magi, with its inherent character of representing the interests of the clan nobility to curb the expansion of royal power, was the main form of struggle between the early English nobility and the royal power, and in fact deprived the king of the status and prestige that he had only in the late 11th century.

At this time, the main function of the Council of the Wise was to elect the heir to the throne on the basis of hereditary principles, and to assist the king in deciding on the kingdom and other internal and external affairs.

William was extremely disgusted by this, because the nobles could decide the internal and external affairs of the kingdom through the current council, interfere with William's power to act, and decide the heir to the kingdom of England.

In particular, William would not tolerate the power of the Council of the Magi to elect an heir to the throne, as this would cause the crown of the King of England to slip out of the hands of the Normans.

With the nature of the nobles, they would have chosen a nobleman who matched their hearts as the heir to the Kingdom of England, not William's future sons.

The reason why William I was eager to hold the anointed coronation full of the divine power of the monarchy was to show the world that "through the anointing coronation, the kings of the 'barbarian' regime are no longer merely the military chiefs of the primitive Germanic tribes, and no longer the tribal leaders who can be bound, deposed, or even executed at will by the 'Council of the Magnes' composed of nobles, but the Christian kings who exercise the sacred dignity of the political authority of the state on behalf of God."

However, the threat of the Council of the Magi to William and the Normandy dynasty remained, after all, he would always grow old one day, and he could not always remain strong.

In order to prevent the future of the crown from becoming a reality, William decided to abolish the Council of the Magi at a time when the power of the local nobility in England was greatly weakened.

Fortunately, after the war with the Godwyns and the war with the Northern Princes, Godwin, Duke of Wessex, and Leofrick, Duke of Mercia. Hewess and Duke of Northumbria, Sword. The great nobles of England, led by Northumbria, have been cut off by William.

The only surviving English nobleman is the new Duke of Northumbria, Osoff, who submitted to William. Bamburgh, the dormant Earl of Cornwall, Godwin. Cornwall, and a number of religious vassals and nobles.

These nobles, William did not pay attention to them, they would not be an obstacle to him now, but if he allowed the Council of the Magi to continue, sooner or later the Norman nobles would join the Council of the Magi and use this tool to hinder their exercise of royal power.

The opportunity could not be missed, William immediately announced the abolition of the Council of the Mages, abolished the power of the nobles to interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom through the Council of the Magi, and the power to elect and abolish the king, so as to ensure that the throne of England could only be passed to William's descendants.

In order to ensure the stability of the succession to the throne, William drafted a succession bill for the throne - the Primogeniture Act of the Royal Family of England.

The law of primogeniture means that the eldest son inherits all the estates, property, and titles, and the rest of the concubines have their own way out when they reach adulthood, and this unfair primogeniture system laid a solid foundation for the continuation of the Norman dynasty.

English succession law stipulates that the throne is inherited by the king's eldest son, or by his heirs if the king's eldest son dies, and only in some rare cases – such as illness, death, or abstention – can other siblings inherit the throne.

The law of primogeniture not only ensures the stability of the throne, but also puts great pressure on the royal concubines, prompting them to keep forging ahead and earn a living.

This primogeniture system made the estates and properties of the Normandy royal family larger and larger, which was conducive to strengthening the royal power and implementing centralized rule, but the inheritance law was not perfect, it made people indifferent, family estranged, brothers turned against each other, and father and son became enemies.

However, in order to prevent the brothers from killing each other, to fight each other for the throne, and to involve England in the flames of war, it is still very necessary for the eldest son to be borne.

In order to further strengthen the royal power, William thought of the famous Salisbury Oath in history, which was again William's proud work.