the domesday book

• What was the domesday book?

  a book that held information about who held what land and what peoples obligations were to the king
• What was the result of the domesday survey?

  The domesday book
• When was the domesday survey?

  1085
• What are some facts about the domesday book?

  • 13400 names recorded
  • gives us information on social roles, for example there were 28000 slaves
• What were the financial uses of the domesday book?

  the king could see where landholders should be paying more money
• What was the legal use of the domesday book?

  the domesday book contains records of claims by anglo- saxons that normans had took their land and this helped sort out legal disputes