On the 28th of September 1066 the Normans began the conquest of the island of Britannia. Duke Williams’s victory at the Battle of Hastings brought about the downfall of Anglo-Saxon England. William the Conqueror brutally crushed all resistance against him and laid the foundations of the Norman state of England. The Normans transformed a nation, its Language, culture, people and paved the way for the Norman Conquest’s of the Celtic Kingdoms of the British Isles.