Posted: Mar 10, 2020 11:45 pm
Correct
Spearthrower wrote:England was already Catholic long prior to William of Normandy's invasion
That may be so, but just a little so.
The Norman conquest did not happen overnight.
They first had to remove the previous incubants, of Vikings, that were "Pagan".
Æthelstan encountered resistance in Wessex for several months, and was not crowned until September 925. In 927 he conquered the last remaining Viking kingdom, York, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan
Aethelstan was well connected to the benedictine, and Athelstan was also "anglo-saxon", not Breton
Æthelstan or Athelstan (/ˈæθəlstæn/; Old English: Æþelstan[a] or Æðelstān;[b] Old Norse: Aðalsteinn meaning "noble stone"; c. 894 – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan
His household was the centre of English learning during his reign, and it laid the foundation for the Benedictine monastic reform later in the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan
But the Norman conquest was complete when William the conqueror became first Norman king of England
William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard,[2][b] was the first Norman King of England, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror