AS - norman england Flashcards
the feudal hierarchy
- william
- tenants-in-cheif
- under-tenants
- peasants
role of the tenants-in-cheif
- led knights
- did law courts to deal with barony land disputes
- paid king tax from revenues
- served on royal council as advisers
what was knight service
Knight service: duty to provide a knight up to 40 days a year
1. Very very powerful
2. Some guarded kings castles
the feudalism and MILITARY power
- Ensured the king had military power without paying.
- Designed so that William received grants of land for providing the expensive service of training the knights
the feudalism and POLITICAL power
- King Could control barons (major land owner) through grants, land, relief and forfeiture.
- Forfeiture – William had power to punish anyone severely who acted against him and grant reward for loyalty to someone else
the feausalism and PEASANTS
- The system made sure that the nobility stayed rich and in control
- Peasants provided labour service for their lord in return for protection
- Peasants bound to a lord
criticisms of Stigand in the church
- pluralist - bishop for more than one area which increased his land and revenue.
- accused of giving out jobs in return for money
Lanfranc’s changes to the church
- convinced king to put archbishop of canterbury in charge of whole church
- marriage for preists was banned - devoted to god
- monestries and nuneries increased and nuns and monks no longer mixed with other people.
CONTINUITY to anglo-saxon society
- economic - farming life same
- government - process eg writs was the same j dif ppl
- geld tax - king still extracted money from kingdowms
- towns - same trading rights and previleidges
CHANGE to the anglo-saxon society
- economic trade - trade w normandy increased and scandinavier decreased
- military - houses and cleared for castles
- religions - landfranc’s changes and every church/cathedral rebuilt
- social - feudal hierarchy
- poltiical - all AS removed from any role of influence
how did William reduce the power of earls
- smaller earldoms
- less earldoms
- increased power of sherrifs
- using knight service so king had the largest army
role of the regents - odo, lanfranc
- odo of beyeux and william fitzosber - TERRIBLE JOB and undid all of williams peacemaking
- lanfranc - much better and managed to contain a revolt by the earls
the role of the SHERIFF in ANGLO SAXON TIME compared to NORMAN TIME
ANGLO SAXON
- managed kings earldoms but earl was much more important than sheriff
- repsonsible for law and order
- sheriff defeneded shire and gathered fyrd
NORMAN
- controlled shire but only ansered to the king
- kept other last 2 roles
why was royal forest resented
- extended kings hunting land taking it away from others
- locals evicted
- harsh punishments for hunting these
- laws prohibited damage to the vegitation
3 uses of the Domesday book
- LEGAL - sorted out legal disputes about who owns what
- MILITARY - william could see how many more knights his tenants could provide for knight service
- FINANCIAL - king could see whwere ppl should be paying more and what land they should inheirt
2 features of the norman aristocracy
- landholding - passed land to single heir so whole state stayed together instead of sharing it around to many dif members
- chivalry - complex moral coe on how knights should behave
backrgound info to the storyline of bishop odo revolt
- william and odo half brothers
- william makes odo bishop of bayeux (he had bad rep so this helped him)
- odo provides 200 ships for battle of hastings - remwarded
- odo made co-regent with fitzosberene- away bc he allowed theft and rape
- odo forced to give land back
- odo imprisoned
- odo led barons in revolt against william
how did william die
- 1087 - very fat and during battle his horse collasped and he died due to internal injuries
- took him july to sept to die - very painful
who was robert curthrose
- william and matildas eldest son
- good warrior but lazy and weak-willed (not ready to lead Normandy against enemies)
events of Robert Curthose revolt
- robert younger brother plays prank resluting in real fight that william had to stop
- robert angry william didnt punish the brothers so robert and men tried to take control of Rouen castle
- william led troops against robert and men and so robert fled to flanders
- williams enemy gave robert castke on boarder of normandy and then robert tried to attack normandy
- william raised army against robert and robert won - humiliating
- matilda organised a reconciliation between them and william made robert heir to normandy again
who did william want to become heir
william didnt want robert to become heir to englanf but instead he wanted his younger son WILLIAM RUFUS to.
the revolt of odo
- he got released from prison
- led a rebeillion against william and robert supported it
- but most of English barons supported william.
- odo and brothers took refuge in prevebsey castle ans then odo escaped to rochester castle and waited for roberts support
- but this never came and odo was forced to surrended and then got exiled
