After the coronation, amid the cheers of the Normans, Henry III walked out of the cathedral of Mainz with a gloomy face, and the Shinra nobles behind him also dispersed.

William knew that Henry III was so angry with him that he was very happy at this time, but now that the coronation was over, he had no more nostalgia, and was ready to leave for Paris to end the long war.

From the beginning of 1050 to now, this unprecedented war has been going on for more than two years, and it is time to put an end to it and enjoy the fruits of victory, delicious food, and beautiful palaces.

William left Duke Andrew of Belgium and his Third Legion to guard the Kingdom of Lorraine for him, responsible for defending against the threat of the Holy Roman Empire.

In the Kingdom of Lorraine, except for the Earl of Blatter, Andrew's Breda, Hubert's Enober, and the Archbishopric of Trier, which had been given to the Duke of Richard, the rest of the Counts and Archbishoprics remained in William's hands.

The rest of the Upper Duchy of Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg, and the Counts of Verdun, Liège, Uulich, and Lorraine in Lower Lorraine were not intended to be canonized.

William, the territory of the Kingdom of Lorraine, had already thought about how to arrange it, and he was going to make this kingdom a princely domain, and when little Richard came of age, he would canonize him as the king of Lorraine.

Because it is the foreseeable future, when little Richard becomes an adult, he will still be a powerful emperor in his forties, and for as long as twenty or thirty years or even longer, William will firmly grasp the power in his hands.

However, when the sons grow up, they will definitely ask William for land, especially his eldest son heir, Richard Jr., if one does not handle it well, it is likely to affect the father-son relationship between William and his sons, which is more than worth the loss.

William had already thought of a plan to deal with this, and he was ready to canonize several minor kingdoms to his sons, except for England and France, including the kingdom of Lorraine and Ireland in William's hands, as well as the kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of Burgundy in the Holy Roman Empire, including Switzerland and Provence, which he planned to conquer in the future.

In addition, there were the kingdoms of Castile, León, Galicia, Aragon, and Navarre, which he had long kept in his possession.

Except for the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England, which were the main body of the future Frankish Empire, the rest of these small kingdoms could be canonized to William's sons as territories.

Of course, there were good and bad things about these small kingdoms, the best of which was the Kingdom of Lorraine, located on the west bank of the Rhine, which was not only located in the Rhine Valley Plain, with land waste, prosperous towns, handicrafts and commerce, but also the unlimited coal and iron mineral resources of Alsace and Lorraine, and its development potential was not inferior to that of England and the Kingdom of France, but it was only smaller.

In second place was the Kingdom of Burgundy, whose de jure territories included the Duchy of Provence, Savoy, Dauffin, the Count of Geneva and Haute-Burgundy in Switzerland, which had long since disappeared into the Holy Roman Empire.

The wealth of the Kingdom of Burgundy is not inferior to that of France, and the wealth of the Count of Provence and the city of Marseille on the Mediterranean coast can be compared with Paris.

Historically, during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France and for more than 100 years thereafter, the Kingdom of Burgundy was a powerful existence that could wrestle with the Kingdom of France.

Truth be told, William was still considering whether to canonize the Kingdom of Burgundy in the future, as the invasion of Italy was also one of his goals.

But it's ridiculous to say, the Kingdom of Burgundy is still under the Holy Roman Empire, and the territory there has nothing to do with William, so where is William's turn to worry about him.

In addition to the kingdoms of Lorraine and Burgundy, the third smallest kingdom was the kingdom of Castile, the kingdom of León and the kingdom of Galicia, which were tied for third place in William's mind.

Among them, the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Leon are the main part of the later Kingdom of Spain, and if you think about the strength of the Spanish Empire in later generations, you can know how great the potential of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Leon is.

The Kingdom of Galicia, the predecessor of the later Kingdom of Portugal, has great potential for development, especially for seafaring colonization.

It has great potential for development, the productivity of workers and peasants is not weak, and the military is strong, which is why William tied the three countries for third place.

As for the last kingdom of Aragon, it is now only a small country at the foot of the Pyrenees.

Had it not been for the good fortune of the Kingdom of Aragon, which was able to annex the larger Duchy of Barcelona and move south to annex Zaragoza, Albarracín, and Calatayud, the country would have had no chance of becoming one of the main kingdoms that would make up the future Spanish Empire.

The relatively unfortunate kingdom of Navarre, in the next few hundred years, was finally annexed and destroyed by Castille and Aragon due to its involvement in the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France.

The annexation of the Iberian states of Castile, León, and Galicia was William's next goal.

Of course, he can't be in a hurry, one of the most powerful kings of the moment, the emperor of Spain, King Ferdinand I of the Three Kingdoms of Castil, is still alive at the moment.

Ferdinand I the Great was William's father-in-law, Queen Urraca's biological father, and the Normans and Castile had a close alliance.

What's more, Ferdinand I, as the most powerful monarch in the history of Spain, can bully the Moors and dare not raise their heads and join them one after another, can dominate the Christian countries of Iberia, and can resist the pressure of the Pope and the Holy Roman Empire to be crowned Emperor of Spain, such a fierce man even William does not dare to easily oppose him.

However, his three sons, the future king of Castile, Sancho II, Alfonso VI of León, and Garcia II of Galicia, were far from his father, Ferdinand I.

Sancho II was good at military warfare, more than fierce but not enough sinister and cunning, Alfonso VI was good at intrigue and bravery, but commanding battles was his weakness, and the last García II was a complete waste, neither of which was to be considered.

Once Ferdinand I died, Spain was divided into three parts, and each of them had a country, and the three of them were bound to break out into a succession war for their respective thrones.

This was the perfect time for William to enter the Three Kingdoms of Castile, and he could use Queen Urakar's claim to the throne of these three countries to seize them.