Anglo Saxon government power

• The Wit


  The council that advised the king, and also chose who would become king after one died
• The Wit


  • Made up of Gurls and Bishops
• Earls


  Collected taxes in their Earldom, could keep 1/3 of it, had to defend and govern their Earldom, oversaw hundreds of The gas and housecals
• Strong Kings


  Could control Earls
• Earls


  Sometimes struggled to control Theyns
• Edward the Confessor would not