In the thousand-year history of Britain, there have been tyrants, weak kings, and many wise kings and heroes. Strictly speaking, there are only two of them who laid the foundation for British history.
The first was Alfred the Great, who ended the chaotic era of the Seven Kingdoms and unified England for the first time. As the king of Wessex and the monarch of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty, his existence was of extremely profound significance to the history of Britain. If not Counting King Arthur who didn't know whether it was illusion or reality, the British king's power can be traced back to this ancestor king.
The second was William I the Conqueror, the king who conquered Britain as the Duke of Normandy. Although the Norman dynasty changed its royal power, all subsequent dynasties inherited the throne as descendants of William the Conqueror and passed it down for thousands of years. .
William the Conqueror's claim to the throne came from his cousin, King St. Edward, who was a descendant of Alfred the Great.
Princess Alice's question is certainly worth pondering, but King Arthur, the option closest to the answer, is often not the truth.
"Why are these two people? In the legend of King Arthur, the blood of King Arthur flows. Also holding the sword of King Arthur is his son Mordred. When King Arthur went on an expedition to Rome, his illegitimate son raised a rebel flag in the country. Became a king."
Erica protested that she recognized neither Alfred the Great nor William the Conqueror, and instead proposed new candidates.
"Also, in British history, there was another knight king. He was both the king of knights and the knight of kings. He was the most noble and gorgeous flower of knights in that era, and that was Richard the Lionheart. "
"Your conjectures are all reasonable, but I can tell you for sure that they are not. First, although Mordred raised the flag of rebellion and became king, he is a false king. A false king is not a king, and he is not recognized by the world. , is not recognized by God, and will not be recorded in history. As for the Knight King Richard I, the great Lion King in British history, except for his coronation and being captured and released back to England, he has been abroad all his life."
Princess Alice's eyes were filled with amusement. One was a king who was not recorded in British history, and the other was that although he was a legitimate king recognized by Britain, the Lionheart King spent most of his time in France.
Therefore, now that King William has put his name out in the open, his true identity is actually ready to be revealed.
The only problem is that this is an intuition, a guess, which represents possibility rather than evidence. As long as William does not admit it, even Princess Alice can't do anything about it.
After all, whoever said his name was William was William I the Conqueror in history. If someone named himself Qin Zheng, could he say that he was Qin Shihuang and let others give him money?
In Britain, there are many people named William and Arthur.
"Didn't you notice his name?" Princess Alice asked.
In fact, it's not that I didn't notice it, but that I subconsciously ignored it and didn't think about it that way.
Excluding times that are too distant, kings and nobles generally have their own family surnames. For example, the British royal family's family surnames come from Windsor Palace and Castle.
Because the Windsor dynasty came from Germany, and public anti-German sentiment was serious during World War II, the royal family abandoned their private surname Wetting and re-created the surname Windsor.
The Wetting family originated in the town of Wetting in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The origin of the royal family is the nobility, and the nobility has its place of origin and fiefdom as its family name.
Before the industrial revolution, most civilians did not have surnames. If there was a need to call others by their first and last names, they would just use their parents' names as their surnames.
William I the Conqueror was a Frenchman. Because his family was a Viking, there was no family name according to Viking tradition. The dynasty he established could only be called the Norman Dynasty.
Historically, the founding king of the UK was King Alfred, but spiritually the founding king of the UK was always King Arthur.
The Britons, Saxons, Normans, Governors, and even the current Windsor dynasty and the British all claim that King Arthur is their ancestor and consider King Arthur to be their king.
"Perhaps in real history, when Rome ruled Britain, there really was a great Celtic civilization, the glorious Kingdom of Camelot, and the Arthurian dynasty. Maybe the great King Arthur was a Roman general. Maybe the legend of King Arthur was just a witch. The stories they made up, but this is not important. What is important is that people believe that King Arthur is their ancestor and their king. Their royal power does not lie in the former territory and territory, but in his achievements, legends, and chivalrous deeds. , the sad past, tragedy, and spirit will remain in the hearts of the people forever, and his land and royal power will be in the hearts of the people. As long as Britain is there and the British are there, King Arthur will be eternal. This is the meaning of the eternal king."
Princess Alice was a little tired when she spoke. The maid on the side quickly supported her body and made her sit on a chair. She took a sip of the water handed over by the maid and said, "So Pendragon is the surname of the British dynasty. The British kings are all the successors of this great king. Maybe the legal system of blood comes from the conqueror, but spiritually they are the successors of King Arthur."
"I don't quite understand what you mean, but isn't William the God Killer?" Erica was a little confused. As a genius, she vaguely understood the meaning of Princess Alice's words, but she didn't quite understand them.
"Why is the God Killer called the King?" Alice asked.
"Because the Godslayer killed the gods in the sky and took away their power, the people on the earth could not resist him, so he became the king." Erica blurted out.
"Then why do you think William is a god-slayer? It's because William has the power of a god-slayer. We have always had a misunderstanding. We think that he defeated a bronze dragon. We think that the bronze dragon is a god, so he killed the dragon that is equivalent to a god. , then the god-killer will naturally gain power, but this is actually incorrect."
"It's not because William killed the gods and took away the powers of the gods that he became king, but because he was a king to begin with, so he has powers like gods."
"Princess Alice, what you said is really shocking." Paul Browntree said, if these remarks spread, it will definitely cause an uproar in the entire magic world.
You must know that this girl is not an ordinary person, but the top miko in Europe, the president of the Council of Sages who has the deepest and most extensive research on the Godslayer and the God of Disobedience.
"Human beings have created myths to restrain gods. Gods come from people's fears. They take the power of various incomprehensible phenomena in nature, such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and give them the appearance of gods to make up myths."
"In this way, gods will obey the rules of myths and grant people favors. If they violate the myths, then gods will bring disasters to people. In this way, we will call gods the gods of disobedience. Gods accept human beliefs and sacrifices and protect humans. , On the contrary, humans will be punished if they behave disrespectfully. Sir Paul, Erica, imagine replacing myths with laws and using sacrifices as service. Do you think there are any differences and similarities between the two?"
"Myths and laws, sacrifices and service?" Erica was stunned for a moment, and then became alert. She had to say that she was a very smart girl, and the study of myths itself was the field of magician research.
"The status of gods and people's rulers is very similar. In Greece, countless heroes claimed to be the son of Zeus, the son of God, and the spokesperson of God. The Roman emperor initially claimed to be a god. After the rise of Christianity, Seeing himself as a saint, the British king equated himself with the archangel Michael, myths were equated with the law, and the people's sacrifices to God were actually taxes and service to the king.
Gods and rulers are inherently entangled in the minds of the people, and the spread, transformation, and evolution of myths are not in the hands of magicians, but in the hearts of the people.
Don’t think about what is recorded in books or what scholars believe. Myths exist in people’s hearts. Therefore, the Olympus gods behave in myths just like the feudal nobles. Although Zeus is supreme, he cannot ignore other gods. combined opinions.
Even in China's Taoist worldview, which pursues enlightenment and immortality, it still has hierarchies, superiority and inferiority. Even if it is detached, it is not completely detached. Isn't this a true reflection of human society? "
"You mean the ruler, that is, God, God is the ruler, and William is the king, that is, God!"
Erica asked cautiously, "But I don't think William is a god of disobedience."
"I just said that rulers are equal to gods, not that rulers are gods. These are similar but different concepts. For example, the Queen of England and the President of the United States are both heads of state. The underlying meanings are similar but different."
"Odin is a hero, the greatest hero in Norse mythology, and this hero also has the identity of a king. We worship him, follow him, and are loyal to him, not because Odin is a god or a king, but Because Odin is a hero, even though Odin does not have the status of a god or a king, his respect, obedience and admiration for heroes and great men enable him to gain the power of a ruler without holding power, owning land, or managing people. In the East this is called or like Jesus."
"In British legal thought, there is such a discussion that the king is immortal because he will never die or be a minor legally. Not only will the king not make mistakes, he will never even think of making mistakes. He will never There is no ignorance or weakness in his behavior. The king is invisible. As a king, he can not judge the case himself, but let the law be everywhere."
"The king has two bodies, a natural body and a political body. The king's power is shared by all kings. He is the same kind as spirits and angels, and his expression within time is the unchangeable."
“Therefore, William is the king, holds the royal power, and exercises power, comparable to the god of disobedience.”
