The Battle of Hastings

The usual round of hunting, dancing, singing and story-telling. They were also very fond of riddles. The Exeter Book (known to exist in 1072, but containing material composed much earlier) contains 96 of them.

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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The Domesday book helped William to control England by showing him what the Saxons would retaliate to and not. He got to know his country better.

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The Bayeux Tapestry was made before 1082, most people think it was finished in 1077 but some think it was finished later on no one knows exactly when it was started or finished but people mainly agree that it was started and finished before 1082. It was comissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a 70m (230 foot) long by 0.5m (20 inches) wide strip of linen that contains a series of embroided pictures illustrating the Norman invasion of England. The Tapestry includes pictures of 626 people, 190 horses, 37 ships and 33 buildings. It is believed that Bishop Odo, William the Conqeror's half-brother, organised the making of the tapestry. The embroidery was probably produced by a group of English needle workers.

By George Wappett Harold Godwinson had 500 Housecarls armoured with helmets and mail hauberkswho were professional and highly trained horsemen who wielded the great Danish axes. The remainder of his army was equipped with spears, swords, slings, and maces. In defense emergencies peasants were called upon to fight as infantry, not as well armed. The main defensive formation was a shield wall.

1) In 1066 the English needed a new king because Edward the king of confessor of England died with no sons. He needed someone that he trusted to continue his throne.

He had 1500 archers, 2000 knights and about 4000 foot soldiers.

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He was known as William "the Bastard" (because he was illegitimate) the Duke of Normandy. His father was a tanner but he was adopted by the previous duke. The Normans were "northmen" from Norway who had conquered this part of northern France a century before. Over that time they had stopped speaking Norse and began speaking French.

Harold Godwineson, (note that his name is spelt with an 'e.' Many people make this mistake arrived just outside Hastings in a place which is, today, called 'Battle.' This is where the Battle Of Hastings took place. He arrived on October 14th, 1066.

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In 1066, money wasn't invented yet. Instead the people used coins out of gold or they traded (bartered).

no, they just happened one after another.

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in the year of the Battle of Hastings 1066 Harald sigurdson (Otherwise known as Hardrada) of Norway was the first to land in England with an invasion force and was defeated at stamford, but the battle of hasting was fought between Harold godwineson of England and the invading army of William of Normandy

The Norman's began to form for battle after the death of the King in January 1066. William's troops were assembled and ready to begin their journey by mid August.

To run a country you need to know how much tax you can get from the land owners and farmers.

That is what the Domesday Book is for, it is a record of who owns each parcel of land, how much is being farmed and what it is worth. It also gives the name of the former owner and how much it was worth before the invasion in 1066 for comparison.

Clocks as we know them were not invented until almost the end of the Middle Ages, so other systems were used to keep track of the passing hours.

Time was viewed very differently in the monasteries than it is today - there was no concept of minutes or seconds and the hours could only be roughly estimated. Accuracy was not important; what mattered was fitting in all 8 church services every day at roughly the correct times.

Water clocks were one of the methods used. These were far from accurate, but measured time by allowing water to drip slowly from a tank and measuring the water level in a vertical tube above. Some had a "float" which struck a small bell at the appropriate time - a monk was alerted by this to ring the church bell for services.

Another system was a set of equally-sized large beeswax candles, each marked with lines to represent the hours. As one candle burned down another would be lit to replace it and the correct hour could be read by checking the level against the lines.

A third system used "scratch sundials" marked on a south-facing wall. These were usually a circular carved line and a central hole, with a few radiating lines from the centre to the lower part of the circle. A bronze or iron pin was set in the hole and this cast a shadow along the lines in turn. As a particular line was reached, the monks would know it was approximately time for one of the services.

None of these systems gave an accurate reading, but that didn't matter. The sundial system also varied at each season - daylight hours would be much longer in summer than in winter, spreading out or contracting the total "day".

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No. They would have a helmet made mostly of leather and - if they were not employed as archers - a shield and they might have a leather breastplate for protection.

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King Harold Godwinson's brother was named Tostig.

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King Harold Godwinson had four brothers: Sweyn Earl of Wessex, dead in 1052,

Tostig, who betrayed him and was killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, Leofwin, Earl of Kent and and Gyrth, Earl of Essex, both killed at the battle of Hastings in 1065.

Harold had also a sister, Edith who got married to Edward The Confessor and died in 1057.