Conquest: 1000-1087.

Or how
Anglo-Saxon England became
Norman
By Lavro Tetyana
УА-19-1з
„I attacked the English of the Northern Shires like a lion. I ordered
their houses and corn, with all their belongings, to be burnt without
exception and large herds of cattle and beasts of burden to be
destroyed wherever they were found. It was there I took revenge on
masses of people by subjecting them to a cruel famine; and by doing
so — alas!“

-William I of England-

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 The Plan
• Purpose of the Prezintation.
• The Beginning of the Ninth
Century. Abstracts by date
• The Norman Conquest of
England in 1066
• Developments during 1066-1087
• List of references
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The purpose and
the subject
The purpose of this presentation is to review
contemporary research on the Norman
Conquest of England. It will break down the
major issues, and summarize the data.
The subject is the Norman King William the
Conqueror and the English state of 1000-1087

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 Timeline of events
1000-1058
• 1000.The Law of Judges was enacted.
• 1002-1014. Brien is supreme king of Ireland.His death.
Dissolution of Ireland. The law of the ordinance was recorded.
• 1013. The Danish king Sweyn is proclaimed King of
Northumbia. His capture of London.
• 1016.Beginning of the Danish dynasty rule in England (until
1042).
• 1035-1039. Harald I Hare Leg of the Knutling dynasty
becomes King of England.
• 1042.Return to power of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. Edward
the Confessor, King of England.
• 1051.Rebellion of Earl Godwin against King Edward the
Confessor, expulsion of Godwin from England.

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 The Death of Edward the
Confessor and the Struggle for
the Throne

On the night of January 5, 1066 King Edward the Confessor of England died who left
no direct heirs. The last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal dynasty, Edgar Etherling,
was young (15 years old) and did not have the support of the nobility. Harold Earl of
Wessex was proclaimed king (according to English sources, Edward declared him his
heir before his death). But the Duke of Normandy William, who was distantly related
to Emma, Edward's mother, also laid claim to the English throne. 6
 The beginning of
the battles for the
throne
• William was able to secure the support of
Pope Alexander II (1061-73), who sent the
duke the "banner of St. Peter. By the summer
of 1066, William had amassed an army
(4,000-7,000 men) and began preparations
for a crossing of the English Channel.

• At the same time the Norwegian king Harald

the Harsh was plotting a campaign to
England, allied with whom Harold's younger
brother Tosti, who had been outlawed in
1065, had joined.

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 In September 1066 a Norse army landed in
northern England, defeated the combined
forces of the Anglo-Saxon Earls Edwin and
Morcar and occupied York at the Battle of
Fulford (20 September). On learning of this,
Harold, who was in the south of England,
marched his army northward and defeated the On December 25, 1066,
Norse at the bloody Battle of Stamford Bridge Archbishop Ealdred of
(25 September). York crowned William in
the Cathedral of
Waiting for favorable weather, William landed Westminster Abbey.
in England on 28-29 September. In the battle
near Hastings on 14 October, the Norman
army was victorious, with Harold and his
brothers dead. The sources do not allow a clear
reconstruction of the battle, but it seems that
the presence of cavalry, of which the Anglo-
Saxons had none, played an important part in
Norman success. Immediately after the battle
of Hastings, some secular and clerical Anglo-
Saxon magnates in London proclaimed Edgar
Etherling king, but as William's army
approached, they capitulated and swore him in
as rightful ruler of England (late November or
early December).
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 Rebellions against
William
• Rebellions against William the Conqueror's
rule lasted till 1071. The largest was the
rebellion in Northern England (summer
1069). It was supported by a fleet sent by the
Danish King Sweyn II (1047-1074 or 1076),
also claiming the English Crown, based on his
kinship with Cnud the Great.
• But William and his army migrated north in
the winter of 1069/70, crushed the rebels, and
devastated large parts of Yorkshire,
Northumberland and County Durham.

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• Edgar Etheling, who had taken part in the rebellion, fled to Scotland,
and in 1074 surrendered to William, offering him an omens (a vassal
pact ceremony) and recognizing him as the rightful ruler of England.
• The symbolic consolidation of William's authority over England was
the land census, which resulted in the Book of Doomsday, and the
oath of all freeholders of land to him (the so-called Salisbury Oath,
1086).

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William's achievements during his reign

- Founded the - Established

united its laws and
kingdom of system of
England government

- Established - Took the first

an army and land census
navy.

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 The main thing

By the 1080s The ethnic

Through the They tended to composition of
confiscations of receive lands in landholders of
Anglo-Saxon the higher clergy
Anglo-Saxon different parts of
lands, William origin seemed to changed: in 1070-
the country, so 1175 only natives
concentrated in his England, unlike have less than
hands vast estates, 10% of arable of the continent
France, did not or their
which he actively land.
distributed to his have extensive descendants were
cronies. territorial appointed to the
baronies. English
bishoprics.

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 Personal information

• Robert Courtgeuse (1052/1054 -

• Known as William the • He had 11 children. Three of February 3, 1134), Count of Maine,
Bastard (1027/1028, whom went on to reign. Duke of Normandy 1087-1106
Falaise, Normandy -
• Alan IV (died October 13,
September 9, 1087, Rouen, 1119), Duke of Brittany from • Henry I Bocklerc (1068 - December
Normandy) 1084 1, 1135), king of England from 1100,
duke of Normandy from 1106.
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 List of references
• Дуглас Д. Вильгельм Завоеватель (электронная книга)
• Поль Зюмтор. Вильгельм Завоеватель ст.85-94
• Джорджетт Хейер - Вильгельм Завоеватель (электронная книга)
• https://historylib.org/historybooks/Dzhuett-Sara-Orne_Zavoevanie-Anglii-normannami/16

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