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
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