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Norman England

Christmas day 1066 in Westminster Abbey

William, Duke of Normandy, was crowned king of England

Normandy became an English territory

Anglo -Saxon

Reduced to the condition of serfs, deprived of their property and rights.

They introduced the feudal sistemy, built castles to defend their conquest and they olso brought their languages.

Latin-Norman French

Langueges of the church and governament

Domesday Book, historical information about England in William's time.

1086

William 1 succeded

New system organisation

Feudalism

William II (William I's son) A coarse and violent man who was unpopular.

Henry I (William II's younger brother) first Norman king born in England, first to speak English as well as French (he didn't have male heirs).

Stephen ( Henry's nephew) Weak king, lost control of much of England.

Henry II (son of Henry I's doughter Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenent) First of the French Plantagenent line, strong king and an able soldier

Richard I (Henry's son) He was called "Richard the Lionheart", for his bravery and military abilities (he spent only six months of his reign in England)

Prince John (reing during the absence of his older brother, Richard)

When John became king(in 1199) He continued to fight wars in France and to lose, England lost all his French possessions. He taxed up and collected a rebellion by the barons who forced him to sign the Magna Carta

1216-72

Henry III had to struggle aginst rebel barons.

Unintentionelly he made a great step forward in the development of parlament

1263

Battle of Lawes- Henry was defeated and taken prisoner by Simon de Montfort (powerful baron)

Edward (Henry's son) defeaded the disloyal barons and freed his father during the Battle of Evesham -Simon de Montfort was killed

1265

He suppressed rebellion in Wales and subdued the welsh to English domination, he fought against the Scots in the first Scottish War of indipendence

Edward I (determined king) =

1272-1307

Battle of Stirling Bridge, Edward's troops were defeated by the Scots under theur leader, William Wallace.

1279

Edward finally overcame the scottish.Wallace was captured and resistance executed

1305

Battle of Falkirk Edward's troops won

William Wallace escape capture and attempted to reorganise the Scots.

1298

Was removed by Edward from Scotland and taken to London

"Stone of Destiny"

than it was used for the coronation of English kings

Symbol of Scottish king (it was used for coronations)

it was returned to Scotland in 1966

The war did not go on continuously; there were several intervals

1337

began with France "The Andred Years War"

-For regain territories and to put a doubtful claim to the French throne

1346 Crécy1356 Poitiers

The English made important victories, Under Edward III

During the reing of Henry V

1415 Agincourt

Under Henry VI, things changed Joan of Arc (greatest heroine of France)

Led the French to victory and Dauphin crowned at Rheims

The next year1453

= French regined their territories the only English possession left in France was the port of Calais.

The black Death

Revolution for more freedom and money

1381

pestilence came across Europa and arrived also in England, population died.

Feudal system was beginning to crumble

Impact on England's social structure

last halfof the 14 century

Birth of the English language-Grown of a prosperous middle-class -There were more people able to speak both French and Anglo-Saxon this language began to amalgamete

born a new languege and a poet that helps to mould it

Geoffrey Chaucer "The Canterburny Tales(printed by William Caxton)

he wrote in the language of London(also called Middle English)

printed press helped this to become the national language

After the foreign wars, England is in a dispute between two branches of the royal famuly Plantagenet, House of York and House of Lancaster

The War of the Roses (dinasty conflict that lasted 30 years)

Henry Tudor of the House of Lancaster won

1485

Richard III, the last of the York king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Flied

England = New period of strength and growth thanks to the unions of the families through marriege

The end of the medieval period arrived with the rise to the throne of Henry VII (first Tudor) in 1485

Feudalism was dying