Anglo-Saxon society
What religion was everyone in A-S England?
Christian
King of England after Edward the Confessor died?
Harold Godwinson
Put the 3 battles of 1066 in order
Fulford, Stamford Bridge, Hastings
What was the Norman social hierarchy called?
The Feudal System
Where were Marcher Earldoms built?
On the border with Wales
What powers did the King have?
Making laws/ raising taxes/ protecting law and order
Who was Earl of Wessex in AS England?
Harold Godwinson
What tactic did the Anglo-Saxons use at Hastings?
Shield Wall
What was William's destruction of Northern England called?
The Harrying of the North
Who did William make Arch Bishop of Canterbury?
Lanfranc
What was an Anglo-Saxon town called?
A Burh
A fine paid to the victims family as compensation
Wergild
Who led the English at the Battle of Gate Fulford?
Edwin and Morcar
Who rebelled in Ely?
Hereward the Wake
A new law the Normans introduced to ban hunting in forests
Forest Law
Who rebelled against Edward the Confessor in 1065?
Earl Tostig
The 3 main Earldoms in Anglo-Saxon England
Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria (East Anglia)
Who allied against Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Tostig and Harald Hardrada.
The amount of days of knight service required per year
40 days
The corrupt English Archbishop of Canterbury
Stigand
A thegn is
a local Lord who: collect taxes, dispense justice, raise the fyrd
The event when Harold Godwinson visited William in 1064
Harold's Embassy to Normandy
What did William have at the Battle of Hastings given to him by the Pope?
Papal banner
The Norman leader in York who sparked the 1068-69 Northern rebellions
Robert Cumin
The years that the revolt between William I and Robert took place
1077-1080