establishing control

• why did the earls submit to william?

  • williams march round london threatened to cut off the city from supplies
  • englands best warriors died at the battle of hastings
• who were the earls who submitted to william

  • edgar aethling
  • edwin
  • morcar
• how did william reward anglo saxons?

  • edwin and morcar got to keep their land but it was smaller then ever
  • everyone who fought against william lost their land and the land was given to william and his followers not the anglo saxons
• how did william reward his followers

  • sent lavish gifts to the pope
  • set a heavy geld tax to pay his mercenaries
  • granted land and earldoms
• what 3 earldoms did william create

  • hereford
  • shrewsbury
  • chester
• what could marcher earldoms do?

  • create new towns to promote norman colonisation of the marches
  • did not have to pay tax for their land and could instead use it to create more defences or build castles