The death of the Bishop of Worcester caused a strong reaction at home and abroad, and a lot of pressure came to his face, especially when the papal envoys questioned William and made him feel quite stressed.

However, William did not succumb to the ecclesiastical forces and the domestic and foreign aristocratic forces sympathetic to the Church, he knew that Clement II, the pope, was about to reach his last moments, and if he remembered correctly, Clement II would not be long in life.

After the death of Clement II, Benedict IX was reinstated, and less than a year later, he was driven out of Rome by Damasus II.

This Pope Damasus II was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and his original name was Pope.

Elected Bishop of Rome in 1048 by Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he ascended the throne of St. Peter's Holy See on July 17, 1048, becoming the first pontiff in the history of Catholicism and the third pope of German nationality.

Damasu II was bishop of Pitt (Brixen) before becoming pope.

After the death of Clement II in 1047, Benedict IX reappeared on the throne of Rome, and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, dissatisfied with Benedict IX's actions, expelled him again in 1048 AD and chose Damasus II to succeed him.

When Damasus II became Pope, he forced the retreating Tuscans, Hildebrand (1073~1085, later Pope Gregory VII), to come to his aid.

On August 9, 1048, Pope Damasus II died hastily after more than three weeks in office, rumored to have been poisoned by a lack of loyalty to Henry III, although he was more likely to die of malaria.

He was succeeded by Leo IX, Bishop Bruno, William's old rival.

Pope Clement II and his successor, Pope Damasus II, were short-lived and died shortly after their reign.

Henry appointed his cousin, the Bishop of Tür, as Pope, for Leo IX. He is also the fourth in the history of the Pope, and a German like his two predecessors.

Leo IX reigned for five years (1049-1054 AD) and was a strong supporter of the Cluny movement, and it was because of his zeal for reform that he was appointed pope by the emperor.

Leo IX was a fanatical Clunian monk whose authority was further strengthened during his papal presidency.

He ordered the reorganization of the Holy See, with the clergy all held by Cluny monks, demanded strict celibacy at all levels of clergy, prevented the transfer of religious property to the laity, and declared that all religious property belonged to the Pope and was liable to pay taxes to the Holy See.

Although Leo IX, the hard-line pope, would ascend to the throne of St. Peter two years later and begin a series of reforms against William, the Holy See had no time to attend to the affairs of England for at least two years from late 1047 to August 1049.

In less than two years in the future, the papal throne will change three times in a row, and the HRE Emperor will once again lead his army south to Rome, and the Holy See will have no time to care about anything else.

William, who had a plan in mind, adopted a delaying strategy in response to the papal envoys' cross-examination, always answering the other party ambiguously.

Sure enough, on November 18, 1047, news came from Rome of the tragic death of Pope Clement II on October 9, 1047.

The papal envoys had no time to entangle with William any longer, bid farewell to William, and immediately set off for Rome.

Without the pressure and interference of the Pope, William was free to take care of the local church in England.

After abolishing the Archdiocese of Worcester, recovering the rich assets of the Bishop of Worcester and the Church of Worcestershire and bringing Worcester County under his direct jurisdiction, William continued his efforts and brought the Bishop of Durham Archdiocese Edwan to the royal court.

Although William was stressed by the unexpected circumstances of the last trial of Wolfstein, Bishop of Worcester, and his unexpected death, William and the Norman nobles were able to cheer up and ensure that the trial did not happen again.

The trial went smoothly, and William again deposed Edwan, Bishop of Durham, and the archdiocese of Durham on the grounds of collusion with the rebellious aristocracy, and confiscated the local church assets into royal ownership.

County Edwan, close to Northumberland, the Duke of Northumbria's domain, is the northern gateway to Yorkshire, the Crown Territory of William, and is of irreplaceable importance.

But at this time, William did not have time to take care of this remote territory, so he canonized the Norman nobleman Roger under his command. Morality. Beaumont was the Earl of Durham and granted him the County of Durham.

After stripping the Church of England of the counties of Worcester and Durham, William set his sights on tithes.

As for the two heads of the Church of England, Bishop Eldred of York and Archbishop of Canterbury Stigander, William let it go for the time being, and now it is not the actual reality of launching a final attack on the Church of England, he wants to eat away at the strength of the Church of England step by step, and wait until they lose the ability to resist before finishing the battle.

Tithes are a religious tax that originated in the Old Testament and was levied by the Christian churches in Europe mainly for the salaries of the clergy and the daily expenses of the churches and almsgiving, which required believers to contribute one-tenth of their income for religious causes, in accordance with the regulations of the church authorities or the requirements of the law.

The system established by the collection of tithes is also known as the tithing system, or tithes for short.

In the sixth century C.E., the church began to advocate tithing, taking advantage of the biblical claim that one-tenth of the agricultural and pastoral products belonged to God.

It was recognized by the European canon law of the time, and since the 8th century it has been supported by secular law.

In 779 A.D., after Charlemagne of the Frankish kingdom began to make it clear that tithing was an obligation for every resident of the Frankish kingdom, Western European countries followed suit, while England, far from the continent, did not make tithes compulsory until the 10th century.

Tithes are taxes imposed on the total product of the land and, like taxes on agricultural products, fall entirely on the consumer.

However, it is different from the land rent tax because it can affect the land that the land rent tax does not affect, and it will increase the price of agricultural products that the land rent tax cannot change.

Because both the inferior and the highest lands are titheed and proportional to the output they produce, tithes are an equal tax.

It can be said that tithes were a universal tax levied by the Church on all citizens throughout the country, and there was no other tax in the kingdoms of England and Norman under William's reign that had such a wide range of objects and large taxes.

Therefore, William has long coveted tithes.

Immediately after William recovered County Durham from the Church, William convened a council to discuss the Reformation, and he decided not to pay taxes to the Church of Rome, but to take the tithes into his pocket, and appointed his close confidant, Father Liecher, Hermann, as the Archbishop of Canterbury.