In the thousand-year history of Britain, there have been tyrants, faint kings, and many bright monarchs, which have the nature of laying foundation for British history, strictly speaking, there are only two.

The first is Alfred the Great, who ended the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms and unified England for the first time, as the king of Wessex, the monarch of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty, his existence is of extremely far-reaching significance to the history of England, if you don't count the King Arthur who doesn't know the illusory or the real, then the kingship of England can be traced back to the head of the first king.

The second is William the Conqueror, the king who conquered Britain as the Duke of Normandy, although the Norman dynasty changed its royal power, but both the subsequent dynasties inherited the throne as the descendants of William the Conqueror, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.

William the Conqueror's claim to the throne came from his cousin, King St. Edward, who was a descendant of Alfred the Great.

Princess Alice's question is certainly worth pondering, but King Arthur's closest option to the answer is often not the truth.

"Why are these two, in the legend of King Arthur, with the blood of King Arthur, and his son Mordred, who also holds King Arthur's sword, when King Arthur was on an expedition to Rome, his illegitimate son raised a counter-flag in the country and became king."

Unconvinced, Erica says that she disagrees with either Alfred the Great or William the Conqueror, and instead proposes a new candidate in protest against her speculation.

"Also, in the history of England, there is another knight king, who is both a king of knights and a knight of kings, the most noble and gorgeous knight flower of that era, that is Richard the Lionheart."

"Your conjectures are all valid, except that I can tell you for sure that it's not. First, although Mordred raised the anti-flag and became a king, this is a pseudo-king, and a pseudo-king is not a king, and it is neither recognized by the world, nor by God, nor by history. As for the Knight King Richard I, the great lion king in English history, he spent his entire life abroad except for his coronation and release from captivity to return to England. ”

Princess Alice's gaze is playful, one is a king who is not recorded in British history, and the other is an orthodox king recognized by England, but Lionheart spends most of his time in France.

Therefore, since King William has generously laid out his name, his true identity is actually about to be revealed.

The only problem is that this is an intuition, a guess, a possibility, not a proof, and even Princess Alice can't do anything if William doesn't admit it.

After all, whoever said that his name was William, it was William I, the conqueror in history, if someone named himself Qin Zheng, then he could say that he was Qin Shi Huang and let others give him money.

In England, names named William and Arthur abound.

"Didn't you notice his name?" Princess Alice asked.

In fact, it's not that I didn't notice it, but I subconsciously ignored it and didn't think about it that way.

Excluding too distant times, kings and nobles generally had their own family names, such as the British royal family, whose family name comes from Windsor Royal Castle.

Because the Windsor dynasty came from Germany, the anti-German sentiment of the people in World War II was serious, so the royal family abandoned their personal surname Weiting and recreated the surname Windsor.

The Wettin family originated in the town of Weting, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

The origin of the royal family is the nobility, and the nobility has their own place of origin and fief as their family surname.

Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the commoners did not have surnames, and if there was a need for external names and surnames, they only took the names of their parents as their own surnames.

William I the Conqueror was a Frenchman, and because his family was Viking, there was no family name according to Viking tradition, and the dynasty he founded could only be called Norman.

Historically, the first king of England was King Alfred, but spiritually the first king of England was always King Arthur.

The Britons, Saxons, Normans, Tuts, and even the present House of Windsor, as well as the British, claimed King Arthur as their ancestor and considered King Arthur to be their king.

"Maybe in real history, when Rome ruled Britain, there was really a great Celtic civilization, the glorious Kingdom of Camelot, the Arthurian dynasty, maybe the great King Arthur was a Roman general, maybe the legend of King Arthur is just a story made up by witches, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that people believe that King Arthur is their ancestor, their own king, and their kingship does not lie in their former territories and territories, but in his exploits and legends, chivalrous deeds, sad past events and tragedies, And the spirit is forever left in the hearts of the people, and his land and royal power are in the hearts of the people, as long as Britain is there, and the British are there, King Arthur is eternal, this is the meaning of the eternal king. ”

Princess Alice was a little tired, and the maid on the side hurriedly supported her body and let her sit on the chair, she took a sip of the water handed by the maid and said, "Therefore, Pendragon is the surname of the English dynasty, and the successive English kings are the successors of this great king, maybe the blood system comes from the conquerors, but spiritually they are the heirs of King Arthur." ”

"I don't quite understand what you mean, but isn't William a godslayer?" Erica was a little confused, as a genius, she vaguely understood the meaning of Princess Alice's words, but she didn't understand it too well.

"Why is the God Slayer called the King?" Alice asked.

"Because the godslayer killed the gods of heaven and took away their power, so that the people of the earth could not resist him, so he became king." Erica blurted out.

"Then why do you think that William is a god killer, because William has the power of a god killer, we have always had a misunderstanding, thinking that he crusaded against a bronze dragon, thinking that the bronze dragon is a god, so he killed the dragon equivalent to a god, then it is a god killer, and naturally gained power, in fact, this is not true."

"It's not because William killed the gods and took away the power of the gods that he became king, but because he was originally a king, he had the power of a god."

"Princess Alice, what you said is shocking." Paul Bluntree said that if this statement spreads, it will cause an uproar throughout the magic world.

You must know that this girl is not an ordinary person, but the top witch in Europe, the president of the sage council with the deepest and most extensive study of god killers and disobedient gods.

"Human beings have created myths to restrain gods, and gods come from people's fears, giving them the posture of gods and fabricating myths by giving them the form of the power of various incomprehensible phenomena of nature."

In this way, the gods will obey the rules of the myth and give favors to the people, and if the myth is violated, then the gods will bring disaster to the people, so that we will call the gods the gods of disobedience, and the gods will accept the beliefs and sacrifices of human beings and protect human beings, while on the contrary, human beings will be punished for disrespectful behavior. Paul Qing, Erica, just imagine, replace myth with law, and sacrifice as service, do you think there is any difference and similarity between the two? ”

"Myths and laws, sacrifices and service?" Erica was stunned for a moment, and then became alert, I have to say that she is quite a smart girl, and the study of mythology itself is the field of magician research.

"The status of gods and people's rulers is very similar, in Greece countless heroes claim to be the son of Zeus, the son of God, the spokesman of God, the Roman emperor originally called himself a god, after the rise of Christianity, he regarded himself as a saint, the king of England equated himself with the archangel Michael, mythology is equivalent to the law, the people's sacrifice to the gods, in fact, is the tax and service of the king,

Gods and rulers are inherently entangled in the minds of the people, and the propagation, transformation and transmutation of myths are not in the hands of magicians, but in the hearts of the people.

Don't think what is recorded in the books, how scholars think that myths exist in people's hearts, so the performance of the Olympian gods in myths, just like the feudal nobles, Zeus, although supreme, cannot ignore the opinions of other gods united.

Even in China's Taoist immortal worldview, which pursues enlightenment and immortality, it still has ranks, noble and lowly, and even if it is detached, it is not completely detached, isn't this a true reflection of human society? ”

"You mean the ruler, that is, the god, the god is the ruler, and William is the king, that is, the god!"

Erica asked cautiously, "But I don't think William is a god of disobedience. ”

"I'm just saying that rulers are equivalent to gods, not that rulers are gods, it's similar but different concepts, for example, the Queen of England and the President of the United States are both heads of state, and the deep meaning is similar and different."

"Odin is a hero, the greatest hero in Norse mythology, and this hero also has the status of a king, we worship him, follow him, and offer loyalty to him, not because Odin is a god or a king, but because Odin is a hero, so even if Odin does not have the identity of a god and a king, the admiration, obedience and admiration for heroes and great men make him gain the power of ruler without holding power, owning land, or governing the people, which is called or like Jesus in the East."

"In English legal thought, it is said that the king is immortal because he is never legally dead, or is never a minor. Not only does the king not make mistakes, he does not even think of making mistakes, he does not act mischiefly, he does not have ignorance or weakness. The king is invisible, as he can not judge the case himself, but let the law be everywhere. ”

"The king has two bodies, a natural body and a political body, and the kingship is common to all kings, the same kind of elves and angels, and the manifestation of immutability in time."

"Therefore William is a king, who holds royal power and exercises power, comparable to a disobedient god."