Why did William the Conqueror believe he had a right to the throne? William the conqueror believed he had the right to the throne seeing as he had been promised it. This all started with Edward the Confessor. Edward became Saxon king of England from 1042 – 1066. Seeing as Edward had no natural heir to his throne‚ when he died in 1066‚ Harold Godwineson‚ a strong Saxon noble leader succeeded him as king. This angered William‚ duke of Normandy (conqueror) seeing as he had been promised the throne
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He was making his return to Winchester (then the capital of England)‚ and disbanding his army as he went‚ when he got news that William‚ Duke of Normandy had invaded at Hastings on the South Coast. Harold immediately recalled his men and made a forced march south. The speed with which Harold’s army moved took William
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poor leadership and Harold’s bad luck. The first argument as to why William won the battle of Hastings‚ is that he had the bet army. The Normans had 7500 men‚ all fully trained compared to the 4500 village workers and only 500 professionally trained soldiers that made up Harold’s army. Also‚ William had many archers that could kill from 100 meters way. The Normans were also equipped with blacksmiths‚ carpenters‚ medics and cooks as well as a few mercenaries‚ who were professional soldiers that fought
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a Good or Bad King? William was a great leader of England‚ his power and intelligence were just what the people needed. He brought many new systems and regimes‚ which was better for the people. William may not have been the most generous king‚ though he made England a better‚ safer place to live in. When a king can make the country’s standards of living better he’s defiantly a good king. William introduced Feudalism into the society of England. People received a grant of land in order for them
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The Saxon King‚ Edward the Confessor‚ last of the ancient House of Wessex‚ died childless on on the stormy night of 4th -5th January‚ in the momentous year of 1066. On his deathbed Edward was said to have willed his throne to his brother-in-law‚ Harold Godwineson‚ Earl of Wessex‚ having made a previous promise to his maternal cousin‚ William‚ Duke of Normandy‚ that he should inherit the English throne if he died without producing an heir. The Witangemot or Saxon council of wise men‚ duly elected
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LESSON SEVEN – NORMAN ENGLAND AFTER THE CONQUEST The reason why the Norman Conquest was so significant is that it changed the entire way England was run. It introduced a new set of rulers‚ a new ruling system‚ a new language and a new culture. FEUDALISM One of the most important changes was to do with the ownership of land. William introduced a system of land ownership that was called feudalism. Firstly‚ William seized by force the land belonging to important Anglo-Saxons and claimed it all as his
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UNIVERSITY Norman Castles Write-Up #2 Ryan O’Donovan (6153089) 2/25/2013 Submitted to Professor Sarmad Al-Mashta in partial fulfillment of Concordia University’s BLDG 482Impact of Technology on Society and Architecture. Castles of the Middle Ages serve to illustrate the social and economic changes of the time [1]. In particular‚ the Norman castles of the Romanesque era can be viewed as a tool that was used to impose social and economic reform on the Anglo-Saxon society in Medieval England after
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.......................................................8 Technological..................................................................................8 SWOT ANALYSIS………………………………………………………................10 OBJECTIVES OF HARVEY NORMAN………................................................11 SEGMENTATION………………………………………………………….............12 Geographical...................................................................................12 Demographical
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In the chapter named “ Notes”‚ we can see how Norman Bowker wrote a letter‚ in which he tells‚ how he was not able to know how he was feeling‚ because he had no one to talk about what happened in the war. He was repressing his feelings and thoughts about the war all the time‚ which didn’t make him‚ do better. The letter had a passage that said “ A guy that cant get his act together and just drives around town all day and cant think of any damn place to go and doesn’t know how to get there
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Archie Norman was thirty-seven years old when he took over as chief executive of a supermarket chain‚ Asda. Before joining Asda‚ Norman had no previous experience in the grocery business. He had attended Harvard Business School MBA and had worked for the McKinsey consulting firm. When he took over Asda‚ it was in the brink of collapse. Asda had lost sight of its core customers‚ their competitors were gaining market share and Asda was nearly in $2 billion in debt. Norman was able to turn this struggling
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