Category: History - British
=1. Meaning of the Norman Conquest.=--By the Norman Conquest of England we understand that series of events during the latter part of the eleventh century by which a Norman Duke was set on the throne of England, and was enabled to hand down the crown of England to his descenda...
=1. Meaning of the Norman Conquest.=--By the Norman Conquest of England we understand that series of events during the latter part of the eleventh century by which a Norman Duke...
2. CHAPTER II.=1. The English and Norman Settlements.=--When the Normans crossed the sea to conquer England, the English had been much longer settled in the land which from them was called En...
3. CHAPTER III.=1. Early Dealings between England and Gaul.=--Up to the tenth century the English had very little to do with their neighbours in Gaul. The English kings commonly married the da...
4. CHAPTER IV.=1. The Birth, and Accession of Duke William.=--We have already spoken of Duke Robert, and how he tried to bring back his cousins the Æthelings to England. Towards the end of hi...
5. CHAPTER V.=1. The Return of Godwine and Harold.=--When Duke William paid his visit to King Edward in 1052, Godwine and all his family, save only the Lady Edith, were in banishment, and th...
6. CHAPTER VI.=1. Tostig’s Invasion.=--Harold and the English people must have known very well by this time the danger which threatened them from Normandy. They did not perhaps think so much...
7. CHAPTER VII.=1. Duke William’s Claims.=--Every one who knew what had happened between William and Harold must have known that after that Duke William would certainly claim the English crown...
8. CHAPTER VIII.=1. The Authorities.=--Before we tell the tale of the great fight on Senlac which forms the centre of our whole story, it will be well to stop and think for a while of the sourc...
9. CHAPTER IX.=1. The Election of Edgar.=--After the great battle, Duke William is said to have expected that all England would at once bow to him. In this hope he was disappointed. For a ful...
10. CHAPTER X.=1. The Regency of Bishop Odo and Earl William.=--The rule of those whom King William left in England to govern in his name was not of a kind to win much love from the English p...
11. CHAPTER XI.=1. The Affairs of Wales.=--William was now king over all England, but he had not yet won that lordship over the whole of Britain which had been held by the old Kings of the Eng...
12. CHAPTER XII.=1. William’s Government.=--We have thus seen how a foreign prince won, and how he kept, the kingdom of England, and how little, after he had once really won it, his rule was di...
13. CHAPTER XIII.=1. King William’s Last War.=--The way in which the Conqueror came by his death was hardly worthy of the great deeds of his life. The land between Rouen and Paris, on the rivers...
14. CHAPTER XIV.=1. General Results of the Conquest.=--We must carefully distinguish the immediate effects of the Norman Conquest, the changes which it made at the moment, from its lasting resu...
15. CHAPTER XV.=1. The Norman Kings.=--William Rufus began his reign as a Norman king of England only; Robert held the duchy of Normandy. But William got, first part and then the whole, of Nor...