Hannibal of Carthage

The Tyre leader Hiram

1. He killed the head of the Anglo Saxon royal family, Harold II, in battle and sent the rest into exile. An Anglo Saxon monarch never reigned again.

2. He became the owner of England with the right to lease out parts to whom he wished. All previous owners were ignored.

3. In return for the right to occupy an area of land his subjects provided him with soldiers, weapons, money and food. The right to marry or to inherit was purchased from him. The Anglo Saxons based their armies on family loyalty.

4. He introduced a property tax. Domesday Book records the property of individuals.

5. He gave the majority of the larger landholdings to Frenchmen, Normans, Spaniards, Bretons and none to Anglo Saxons.

6. He made an Italian, Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Norman ,Archbishop of York.

7. He built numerous fortifications at strategic points, including some of stone (eg Dover and the Tower of London).

8. He opened England up to the wider world. Using English soldiers in his battles in France and sending some on the First Crusade to Jerusalem.

9. If anyone objected he didn't hesitate to use the harshest measures, as happened in the North of England. He fought his eldest son Robert for control of lands in France.

!0. Through his two younger sons and granddaughter the rule of this French- speaking, aggressive, yet fair, Norman princeling, over England, then Wales and Ireland, continued until Henry II, Plantagenet, chose a different direction.

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