1066 - English win at Hastings a look at religeon

Assume that William was defeated at Hastings and Harold continued as King.

I am interested in the religious changes to history - with a strong Anglo-Saxon church not towing the line of Rome.

Would the English have been involved in the Crusades?

Would England have become Protestant?

I would like your thoughts
 
The Anglo-Saxon church is still part of the Latin-rite tradition. It might be more independent from Rome, but its not as if its going to go Greek Orthodox or some other schismatic branch.

England involved in the Crusades? No reason why not.

England going Protestant? Butterflies. Protestantism as we know it is unlikely to evolve the same way in this timeline with four and a half centuries until Luther.
 
Pre- Norman conquest England already had close ties with with the Frankish realms, so some volunteers would have sailed to Normandy or Flanders to take up the Cross.

Without the possible influence of John Wycliffe of England (and Jan Huss of Bohemia) living over a century before his lifetime, Martin Luther may not have started the Protestant movement in northern Europe. Maybe something similar happens, but it won't be quite the same Reformation.
 
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