After Hastings, Romney and Dover, William marched to Canterbury where the city submitted without resistance. Archbishop Stigand, the controversial occupant of the see of Canterbury, also submitted to William here. The submission of Canterbury and its archbishop was symbolically crucial — it signalled the acquiescence of the English church to Norman rule. William then moved north and west, encircling London, before the city submitted and he was crowned at Westminster on Christmas Day 1066.
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