Birth of Centralized Government in England:

William the Conquerorand

Henry II

Terms To Know• Nobility• Kingdom of Wessex• Edward the Confessor• Harold Godwinson• Barons• William the Conqueror• Harald Hardrada of Norway• Battle of Hastings• Motte-And-Bailey Castle• Domesday Book• Henry II

• Stephen• Common Law• stāre decisīs• Scutage• Precedent• Bureaucracy• Chancellor of the Exchequer• Richard I• John Lackland• Magna Carta• Runnymede

England, c. 650 CE England, 1066 CE and beyond

Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry

Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry

Last Anglo-SaxonKings Of England

Ethelred the Unready(king, died 1016)

Son Daughter Edward the Confessor(king, 1042-1066)

Earl Godwin

Harold Godwinson(king, 1066)Edith

William the Conqueror(king, 1066-1087)

Robert Curthose William II Rufus(king, 1087-1100)

Henry I(king, 1100-1135)

Adela

Stephen(king, 1135-1154)

MatildaGeoffrey

Count of Anjou

Henry II(king, 1154-1189)

Henry John(king, 1199-1216)

GeoffreyRichard I(king , 1189-1199)

Anglo-Norman KingsOf England

Maiden Bower, Yorkshire, built about 1071 (aerial view)

Arundel Castle, with originalMotte (11th Century) and later stone additions