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TOPIC 42. THE NORMAN CONQUEST
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- 1—Normandy is situated in the Northern coast of France.
Name from the bands of North men who settled there in the 9th and 10th C.
At first, not welcome.
912 earned the right by offering allegiance to Frankish king and accepting Christianity. - 2—ROLLO leader of Danes in Normandy.
He took the king of France as his overload and became the 1ST DUKE OF NORMANS.
- 3NORMAN FRENCHRemarkable people, playing a dynamic and role in political and military events across Europe.
they adopted French as their language & French customs.
Their adaptation was the formation of best armies in the world. - 4DUKE WILLIAM OF NORMANDY2nd cousin of the late Anglo-Saxon king, Edward the Confessor.
King promised him the throne in 1051 to solve succession problem and repay the help of Normans.
- 5HAROLD GODWINSONH.GODWINSON, Earl of Wessex, wanted the throne, forced him to go to Normandy in 1064 and to swear an oath to support William's claim.
Harold broke his oath, he gave William a reason to invade England.
- 6HARALD HARDRADA & THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE.In summer 1066, H. Hardrada, another claimant to the throne, in alliance with Tostig, king's Harold Godwinson brother, landed in Northumbria. The new king reacted quickly marching to north to take the Viking army by surprise at the BOSB near York on 25th September 1066.
- 7—William avoided English fleet in the Channel and landed his army on the coast of EASTERN SUSSEX. Harold army occupied a defensive position. BOH was the final outcome. On 14th October 1066, William I defeated the Anglo-Saxon and won land for Normandy.
- 8—The results of the Norman Conquest can be understood thought the DB. It compiled a survey undertaken in 1085, providing a remarkable full picture of the impact of the conquest.
It documents the wholesale replacement of the English and Scandinavian landowning class by Normans and their allies from Northern France.
- 9FEUDALISMWilliam introduced a French version of feudalism. Each tenant-in-chief or baron pledged loyalty to his lord, the king, and promised to provide an agreed nº of warriors as required.
- 10NOBILITYCreation of a new nobility. Many of English higher class had been killed in Hastings and the rest treated by traitors. Their places filled with William's Normans followers. Result: the old nobility practically wiped out.
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