Norman

• norman laws

  • Murdrum fine
  • unchanged anglo-Saxon laws
  • forest laws
• norman law enforcement

  • tithings and hue and cry
  • trial by ordeal
  • trial by combat
  • church courts
• norman punishment

  • ended wergild
  • capital punishment
• battle of Hastings

  1066- Norman’s defeated anglo-Saxon army
• forest laws

  cannot cut down trees, cannot own dogs or bow and arrows, cannot hunt
• murdrum fine


  whole community had to pay fine if Norman was killed
• Norman church


  highly religious, trial by ordeal, trial by combat
• Norman government


  king William in throne, kept most anglo-Saxon laws as wanted to be viewed as rightful heir