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Submitted to: Keya chakraborty lecturer of English department

In 911, French ruler Charles the Simple allowed a group of Vikings to settle in northern France, a region that was experiencing extensive Viking resettlement.

Their settlement proved successful, and the Vikings in the region became known as the Northmen(i.e. Norman) from which the place name Normandy is derived.

The Norman

Settlement of the Scandavian

Events in the Norman Conquest

William I, the Conqueror (1066-87)William II, Rufus (1087-1100)Henry I, Beauclerc (1100-35)Stephen (1135-54)Empress Matilda (1141)Henry II, Curt mantle (1154-89)Richard I, the Lion heart (1189-99) John, Lockland (1199-1216)Henry III (1216-72)Edward I, Long shanks (1272-1307)Edward II (1307-27)Edward III (1327-77)Richard II (1377-99)

 

Norman Kings

Competition for the CrownDeath of king: Edward the

confessor January 1066

Succession: Harold Godwinson Bother- of Edward

The Beginning The Norman conquest of

England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy, who became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating the then king Harold II of England.

The Battle of Hastings� 14 October 1066

Army of 20000 Norman warriors

Combination of different arms

Offensive strategy

Harold’s army Harold's army was badly

depleted in the English victory at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in Northern England on 25 September 1066 over the army of King Harald III of Norway. By early 1071, William had secured control of most of England, although rebellions and resistance continued to approximately 1088.

Edward the Confessor He was half-Norman by birth

and had spent most of his life in Normandy; he appointed Normans to important positions in the state . England was already half 'Normanized' before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Across the Channel in Normandy, а loud protest was heard. According to Duke William, Edward the Confessor had made the same promise to him; what was more, Harold had already accepted William's claim during а visit to Normandy two years before.

The Tactics William swept across the

Channel with his army and landed near Hastings. Harold was in the north, where he invasiond just defeated а Norse, but he hurried south and, brave but foolish, offered battle. His men were tired and he would have done better to have starved the Normans out. Still, his position on а hill was а strong one, until the Normans, pretending to run away, lured the English down the hill.

Harold Godwinson

The second most powerful man in England and an advisor to Edward.

With this kingly endorsement, the Witan (the council of royal advisors) unanimously selected Harold as King

Hardrada of Norway struck first. In mid September, Hardrada's invasion force landed on the Northern English coast.

Defeated by Harold Resting after his victory, Harold received word of

William's landing near Hastings.

Stamford Bridge Battle

Norman preparations and forces

William assembled a large invasion fleet and an army gathered from Normandy and all over France, including large contingents from Brittany and Flanders. He mustered his forces at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and was ready to cross the Channel by about 12 August. The exact numbers and composition of William's force are unknown.A contemporary document claims that William had 726 ships, but this may be an inflated figure

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Although the army and fleet were ready by early August, adverse winds kept the ships in Normandy until late September. There were probably other reasons for William's delay, including intelligence reports from England revealing that Harold's forces were deployed along the coast. William would have preferred to delay the invasion until he could make an unopposed landing.

Two invasions:

Harald Hardrada of Norway

William, the duke of Normandy

Consequences

Elite replacement

English emigration

Governmental systems Language

Immigration and

intermarriage

Society

Literature

Old English topics French ones

RomanceAllegory

Popular tales

• Exempli• Fabliau• Bestiaries• Chronicles

Architecture

800AD – 1100 AD Origins: The Bizantine

Empire New kind of buildings,

materials and techniques

The Motte and Bailey Castles

Castle

Fear Submission

Wealth Envy

Arts Norman stonework The Bayeaux Tapestry Clunaic reform: recovery

of consecrated scriptoria.

One of the most obvious changes was the introduction of Anglo-Norman, a northern dialect of Old French, as the language of the classes in England, displacing Old English. This predominance was further reinforced and complicated in the mid-twelfth century by an influx of followers of the Angevin dynasty, speaking a more mainstream dialect of French.

Language

Before the Normans arrived, Anglo-Saxon governmental systems were more sophisticated than their counterparts in Normandy. All of England was divided into administrative units called shires, with subdivisions; the royal court was the centre of government, and royal courts existed to secure the rights of free men. Shires were run by officials known as shire reeves or sheriffs. England had a permanent treasury at Winchester before William's conquest.

 

Government system

Feaudal system

The Norman perspective Justification of the

illegitimate invasion

Harold slain with an arrow through his eye

Elite replacementChange on governmental system FeudalismLanguage: Crenchó – Latin – EnglishCastles introduced in EnglandLaws passed to give normans more powerChange of buildings’ styleArmy occupation in much of the countryEnglish bishops and monks Norman bishops and

monks

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