Unit 1 - Normans conquer England 1066?

• A sceptre is a rod that symbolised royal authority
• Shires are countries
• The Domesday Book was created to find out how much tax the king could collect from his subjects.
• A slave is a person who is forced to work for another and therefore has no freedom
• A fleet is a collection of ships
• A gatehouse is the entrance to a castle
• A palisade is a fence made of wooden stakes
• A motte is a large mound of earth forming part of a castle
• A baily is a large enclosed area which was part of a castle. It was protected and tended to be used for stables and workshops
• Merchants are traders
• Mints are places where coins are made
• Burhs are fortified towns built by the Saxons
• Housecarls were Saxon soldiers
• 1042 - 1066 Edward the Confessor
• Edward the confessor died without any children, so the crown went to his brother-in-law Harold
• In September 1066 William and his Norman followers successfully invaded England
• The Battle of Hastings took place on October 14th 1066
• Unlike the Normans the Saxons did not build castles instead they built burhs
• In the 1060s England had a population of 2 million people mst of them being farmers
• In the 1060s Edward had paid for Westminster Abbey to be built in stone as he was very religious. Stone buildings and churches were are in Saxon England so this shows how important religion was to him
• In the spring of 1066 William made plans for his invasion of England. On September 27 1066 his huge invasion fleet set sail across the channel
• Later in the eleventh century the Normans produced the bayeux tapestry which was 70 mt
• On October 13th William's spies reported that Harold was approaching
• After 1071 William granted nearly all of England to his Norman