The Battle of Hastings

In the Middle Ages in Europe, what people ate depended a lot on how rich they were. Poor people (which was almost everybody) ate mainly barley. Sometimes they made their barley into bread, and sometimes into pancakes or pizza, and sometimes into barley porridge (like oatmeal) and sometimes into barley soup. But every day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, most of every meal was barley. It must have been very boring!

As much as they could, the poor people found other things to eat with their barley to make it less boring. They grew carrots and onions and cabbage and garlic to put in their soup, and they made cheese to eat with their bread and melt on their pizza, and they gathered apples and pears and mushrooms as well, so they could make apple pies or baked apples. And they tried to get honey to sweeten their treats. They grew herbs like basil and rosemary to flavor their food. Mostly poor people drank ale (kindof like beer) or beer in England and Germany, wine in France and Italy and Spain. Even the beer was made from barley! Rich people also ate a lot of bread, but they made their bread out of wheat so it tasted better. And they had more choices of other things to eat with their bread. Rich people ate meat - pork and roast beef and stew and lamb chops and deer and rabbit. And they had spices to put on their food, expensive spices that had to come all the way from India like pepper and cinnamon. Even salt was often too expensive for poor people, and only rich people had it. In fact, when you were eating in a medieval castle, the salt would be on the table in a huge fancy salt cellar, and the rich people would sit near the salt so they could use it, while the poor people sat further down the long table and couldn't use the salt. We still say, "above the salt" to mean a rich person. (c) www.historyforkids.org

Well not exactly Edward the confessor apparently claimed Edward had said Harold was crown on Edwards day of death.

King Harold II of England who fought Duke William of Normandy at Hastings was killed in the battle. Legend has it that he was shot in the face by an arrow. It is thought this only wounded him but because English armies were led at the front by their king this caused dismay amongst his troops. When the English battle lines collapsed Harold was surrounded by his most loyal men who fought to the last man to defend him. In the end Harold was hacked to pieces by the Normans and the bits of his body were buried at Waltham Abbey. Some of the Normans kept parts of him as trophies; for example his testicles.

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When Edward the Confessor died, there was no direct heir to the throne and the throne was passed to Harold Godwinson. Then William claimed that Edward the confessor had promised the throne to him. So they fought at the battle of Hastings for the throne.

They invaded Britain, and settled in the part which would eventually become England (England = Angle-land).

He failed with relations with his brother Tostig and he was unable to defeat William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.

The fact that Britain is an island is an important factor. You have to embark your soldiers, which makes things more complicated. The other factor was that she built a powerful navy. The Romans, Vikings and Normans conquered Britain before the islanders had a significant navy. Later, the British navy defeated the Spanish invincible armada (fleet). Victory at sea was key to staving off this attempt at invasion.

In World War II the air force fought and won the Battle of Britain in the skies which ended Hitler's hope to invade by destroying British industry with his air force, which was a strategy he used because he did hot have much of a chance to defeat the British naval defence. Hitler also tried to starve Britain through a naval blockade, but the convoys to and from America prevented this, despite German submarines sinking many ships.

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The last time that England was attacked by another country was during World War II. However, there were no invading ground forces. Some of the English Channel Islands were invaded by the Germans, but not held.

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First of all the word Normans should have a capital letter. The Normans were from France and are noted for their conquest of Britain starting with The Battle of Hastings in 1066. There is ample material relating to this period and subsequent periods both on the web and in local libraries. (If there is nothing in your local library then complain to the librarian, as this is a very significant time in British history.)

As to the transport used by the Normans, it was the same as that used by the British, the Vikings and most other people in the 11th Century and for many centuries to come. Transport was "shanks pony" (walking and carrying your load), horse/donkey/mule with or without a cart attached and, boats and ships. This seems so obvious an answer that I am amazed that the question needed to be asked - the Normans had to cross the English Channel (not called that in 1066) and without a fleet of boats/ships it would have been impossible as the narrowest point is approximately 22 miles - a little too far to swim.

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As a child William the conqueror was contantly in hiding, many people attempted to kill him while he was a child so they could have the throne for themselves. When he became a teenager, Edmund the confessor trained him as a warrior and conqueror.

Hereward the wake and the fens were rebelling on William

death was a common punishment, but it depended on the crime committed.eg if you plotted against the king you would certainly be sentenced for death. for smaller crimes you would have fingers, toes and other body parts choppedoff

Harold Godwinson (1022-1066) ruled England as Harold II for just 40 weeks in 1066 (January 6 to October 14) before being killed at the Battle of Hastings, which established William I (William the Conqueror) as king in December of that year. Harold's rival for the throne, Edgar the Aetheling, was proclaimed king, but not crowned, in the intervening two months.

The exact date is not known. We know that crude firearms were used in battle in the 1200s. Link at the bottom of the page for more information.

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One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries., Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon., A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony., The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon., Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language., Anglo-Saxon., Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

They lasted different amounts of time, some could have been skirmishes (small battles between small numbers of men) which wouldn't have lasted that long and some could be huge battles with thousands of men which could last days, weeks even months.

The Norman Conquest is resonant because there are many, (or have been many) attempts to invade countries all over the world by other countries. Some have been successful, but most have failed. A good example is the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq .The Domesday Book also makes The Norman Conquest Resonant as it is like the census we have today to find out who owns what, how many people live in their houses and where you live.

After William the Conqueror became William I of England, he ordered a survey to be done of his kingdom. This way the law could determine who held what and what taxes had been liable under Edward the Confessor; the judgment of the Domesday assessors was final. What the book said about who held the material wealth or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal.