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How tenuous was William the Conquerer's hold on England in the first years following his 1066 conquest? With King Harold dead and his army destroyed, was a large-scale English uprising a realistic possibility? Were rebels like Eadric the Wild actual threats to William?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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