Norman 🪨

• William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system. What was it?


  Norman barons and knights had the most power
• William created the Forest Laws. What did they do?


  made it illegal to hunt there, creating the crime called poaching
• what were people who ran away called?

  outlaws and waived women
• what was the Folville gang?


  a gang of outlaws who committed kidnaps and robberies
• law enforcement in Norman tomes became more centralised 


  fewer decisions were made locally
• William hired foresters to enforce the forest laws
• what was the new type of trial by ordeal called?

  trial by combat
• what law enforcement systems continued from Anglo saxon times?

  tithings

  hue and cry
• punishments in Norman England became more centralised. 


  They relied on physical punishments and executions
• what punishments were used as an alternative to death?

  mutilation or branding
• there was an increase in what kind of punishment?

  harsh punishments like execution
• what was breaking the Forest Laws punishable by?

  hanging, blinding, castration
• How many died as a result of the Harrying of the North?

  100,000 of starvation
• what was the Harrying of the North?

  William the conqueror ordered farmlands to be destroyed and animals killed
• what was the murdrum fine?


  if an Anglo Saxon killed a Norman and nobody confessed, the whole hundred had to pay
• what punishment system from Anglo saxon times ended?

  wergild, fines were paid to King's officials instead