The Norman triumph was total. Harold was killed along with many Saxon nobles. After the Battle of Hastings, Waltheof, a Saxon noble, had submitted to William the Conqueror and was made earl of ...

William of Normandy, known as 'the Conqueror', was born at Falaise in 1027 ... When the French-speaking Normans and English-speaking Saxons then shouted their approval the Norman soldiers outside ...