William the Conqueror himself marched to St David's in 1081 — the furthest west any Norman king had gone in Wales. The Domesday Book records this as a "pilgrimage" but William freed captives and established overlordship. His march came the same year as the Battle of Mynydd Carn. The Normans were beginning their systematic conquest of Wales from all directions simultaneously. William established the principle that Wales owed fealty to the English crown.
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