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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 22, 2022 20:08:28 GMT
For the Tower of London to be built he ruled from here. Not the church in the background, I mean the building in the foreground that’s no longer there. It’s the site of Barking Abbey and, although it had a long and impressive history, it was demolished during Henry the 8th’s anti-Catholic rampage. 
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 22, 2022 23:16:31 GMT
I thought William The Conqueror lived in and ruled from the Palace of Westminster after he conquered England.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 23, 2022 10:27:09 GMT
I thought William The Conqueror lived in and ruled from the Palace of Westminster after he conquered England. Probably stayed at both places. The way this is written makes it sound like he only spent a few weeks there.. Royal Visitors William the Conqueror spent the latter part of December 1066 and the New Year of 1067 at Barking Abbey while the White Tower of the Tower of London was being built. Here he received the surrender of the great Saxon Earls of Mercia and Northumbria and other Saxon lords. William was the first of many monarchs to stay at the abbey. The last would aptly be Henry VIII, its destroyer. valencehousecollections.co.uk/exhibitions/barking-abbey/
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 23, 2022 10:40:55 GMT
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