Extra Deck Saxon England Flashcards
In Anglo Saxon England most people were?
Peasant farmers
What was England’s economy based on?
Agriculture
Which group of people had come from Scandinavia and attacked Britain starting in the 8th Century?
The Vikings
What type of people were given land in Normandy?
The Vikings
What religion did everyone follow in the 11th Century?
Christianity
What was Danegeld?
A bribe in the form of money paid by the English to the Vikings to make them leave England.
King Aethelred II was overthrown and killed by which Viking?
Canute
What were the name of Canute’s 2 sons who also went on to become Kings of England?
Harold Harefoot and Harthacanute
Canute split England up into 4 Earldoms. What were their names?
Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, Northumbria.
Who was the most pwerful of the 4 earls?
Earl Godwin the Earl of Wessex
What happened to Aethelred’s 2 sons?
They went to Normandy and stayed with their uncle, Richard the Duke of Normandy
Who did Canute marry?
Emma, Aethelred’s widow
What were Aethelred’s sons called?
Edward and Alfred
Edward became the King of England in which year?
1042
Who did Edward marry?
Edith, Earl Godwin’s daughter
What did the Godwins do in 1051?
Rebel
What happened to the Godwins as aresult of rebelling?
They were exiled from the country
What was the group of important English advisers of the king called?
The witan
What did the witan force Edward to do with the Godwins?
Allow them back into the country and give them back their lands
In the late 1050s who was declared sub-regulus?
Harold Gidwinson
What type of ruler was Edward the Confessor seen to be by many people?
Weak
What 3 things did the English look for in the king?
related to the previous king, suported by the English church and lords, wealthy and powerful
