changes to the government

• How was power centralised in norman england?

  • The church- easier to control the church because the king owned all church land
  • knights in service- all troops owed their loyalty to the king
• How did william reduce the power of the earls?

  • reduced size of earldoms -reduced land meant reduced power
  • using knight service to make sure he had a large army as a king but nobody else did
• The role of the regents:

  • odo of bayeux and william fitzosbern did a terrible job as regents in 1067 by helping to provoke anglo saxon resistance
  • lanfranc was much more reliable as in 1075 he managed to contain the revolt of the earls until william could return from normandy