What were William of Normandys skills that helped him in the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 1

Answer to the question!!!!William of Normandy was a skllful and a great leader and also he had more time to prepare. He trained good soldiers and was very lucky for the wind to change at the right time which meant that William came when Harold was fighting Harold hardrada and had beaten him in the end. Harold's army was very tired and his best men died at the battle of Stanford Bridge. William had the popes blessing aswell.

Answer 2

Answer

William showed skills in organisation and administration from the beginning. From the territory of Normandy he raised an army of 4,500 archers, men-at-arms and horsemen. England had 2,500 Housecarles (few horsemen, no archers) plus 7,000 untrained Fyrd Militia.

Answer 3

William pretented to run away from the Saxons so they would follow them and they would attack!

William pretented to run away from the Saxons so they would follow them and they would attack!

William pretented to run away from the Saxons so they would follow them and they would attack!

Answer 4

Williams skills were... the normans were on top of senlac hill. so Williams army ran up the hill to the normans then ran back down and some of the the normans followed them and when the normans got down to the bottom of the hill and they relised that all of Williams army were down there and the normans that went down got killed they did it again and again.

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Answer 5

William showed great skill by outwitting King Harold. While Harold had an equal amount of soldiers, most of them were on foot. William used cavalry and archers, luring Harold's foot soldiers in by feigning a retreat. When Harold's forces gave chase, they were routed.

Answer 6

William was a good leader which enabled him to control his army well and use clever tricks against Harold's army. William used many ideas some that were successful and others not so successful. He used the idea of having archer's fire arrows into the English army - which wasn't successful as the English had formed a shield wall. William also used trickery to fool the English out of their shield wall and down the hill so they could kill the soldiers. William then used a change of tactics, he told his archers to fire their arrows into the air so they would fly over the English's remaining shield wall therefore killing them. William had a lot of courage as his army, during the battle, thought he was dead. He took of his helmet and told his fleeing army that he was still alive, which gave them courage to come back and fight with him.

Answer 7

he was organised, he had administration and leadership skills. He also had Charisma. his army were always well prepared and sorted to where they should be