Was William the conqueror religious?

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Yes Duke William of Normandy and 1 of England was very religious by the standards of the time that is he built an abbey after his success in the battle of Hastings to which he carried a pennant given by the Pope as a blessing. The Abbey is called Battle and is still in use. He also built a lot of churches and cathedrals as at Caen and made sure to be crowned in Westminster Abbey which his cousin Edward had just finished building before he died. Nor did he usurp the authority of the Pope as his sucessors tried to: he was pretty busy anyway putting up castles like the Tower of London to fortify his position and parcelling out land as baronies to Normans as well as quelling a couple of rebellions and supervising the Domesday book to check how much land or livestock the people had as assets he could tax them on. All this and commuting to Normandy did not leave him much time for sin though it is said he asked forgiveness on his deathbed which was in his duchy and he was buried in Rouen cathedral.

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