Mediaeval England

Question 1

Hastings

Answer 1

 Battle of hastings
 1066 A.D.
 Norman conquest

Question 2

William I

Answer 2

 Could get away with things
 King by conquest
 Duke of Normaday
 Wins battle and becomes king of England

Question 3

Domesday Book

Answer 3

 Vikings were going to invade England
 Literate people sent out
 Record who had land/plow team/ taxes paid through the last angland/saxon Kings
 Record who has the land now/ value/ taxes now
 So detailed you can’t change it
 Stay till end of time

Question 4

Oath of Salisbury

Answer 4

	Major town south of England 
	Kings court met there 
	Made leading vassals say an oath of loyalty to him 
	King William I 
	Didn’t work, didn’t have sanctions

Question 5

Island

Answer 5

 Contains whales

 Scotland never raided

Question 6

England troubles

Answer 6

	Welch and Scotland 
	Queen Elizabeth had no heirs 
	Closest was Scotland 
	Became King
Normans died out

Question 7

Angevin

Answer 7

 Middle 12th  1154 A.D.
 Also saw England not important heritance
 Richard Lion Heart
 Rained for 10 years
 Spent 10 months in England
 England continued to function in and efficient way, even with the absence of the king
 Handled it well
 Had no children
 Entire heritance goes to younger brother

Question 8

John

Answer 8

	“unlucky” king 
	Desperate to keep up with the cost 
	Raised relief to 100 pounds 
	Antagonizing vassals 
	Every year go on campaign to get Normaday back 
	People paid scootage
	Then say no next year, but keep scootage 
	Does it for years 
	Canterbury had no bishop
	John wanted his own man Innocent III Great
	got ugly neither of them backed down 
	church went on strike

Question 9

Magna Carta

Answer 9

 1215 A.D.
 No scootage or Aid in town
 If king needed feudal court to debate
 Except redeeming the body  ransom money
 Also the next in line is the eldest son
 Everyone has to contribute to eldest daughters’ dowry
 No free-man be taken or to imprison or in any harm, savedby lawful judgement of his peers
 Protected
 Freeman= very small percentage  limitation

Question 10

Provision of Oxford

Answer 10

 12th century
 Makes constitution on the king (keep king, but limit the king
 Eventually gets abolished  feudal elite

Question 11

Lord Ordainers

Answer 11

 13th century
 What’s right and what’s not,
 Limits the king again
 Again gets abolished

Question 12

Quo Warranto

Answer 12

 1290 A.D.
 To many vassals claiming rights that he thought was royal rights
 Sent agents with this asking everyone in countryside
 Couldn’t convince the agents tolls went to Kings
 Couldn’t get to far ahead with his vassals because if you do they’ll turn against the King

Question 13

Primus/inter Pares

Answer 13

First among equals

 Law people equal to king

Question 14

Language

Answer 14

 English people= before 1066 spoke English
 Normans= foreigners brought French
 Courts of law= 17th century Norman French
 Till 19th century- Norman French

Question 15

Model Parliament

Answer 15

 1295 A.D.
 Sometimes there isn’t a parliament Kings decision
 Royal initiative
 Parliament makes king money
 Little tax
 Consumer of money= war
 13th-14th century England/ France at war
 Tax exports goods
 No one wants to be number of parliament
 Not democratic way kings way

Question 16

Impeachment

Answer 16

 1378 A.D.
 Parliament way anti-king decide if guilty
 Didn’t want to push like oxford
 Attacking leading ministers not personally
 House of law acted like a jury

Question 17

Holy Royal Empire

Answer 17

 England National Monarchy gets stronger

 France Monarchy dies out

Question 18

Organization of economy medieval

Answer 18

	Produce what’s consume 
	Consume what you produce 
	Little trading 
	Paid taxes with labor work 
	No money 
	Kings Vassals labor services= knight service 
•	Reemergence of money takes 100 years

Question 19

Toledo

Answer 19

	City in spain
	Had been Muslim 100s years 
	1085 A.D. Christian captured
	Half Muslim and Christian 
	Muslims knew a lot about weaponry 
	Wealthy Christian knight go to Toledo for the best weaponry 
	Toledo selling on market to buy food 
	Specializing

Question 20

Gascony

Answer 20

	South France 
	Bodar center of wine Trade 
	Each year huge amounts of wine exported 
	Exported to west Europe 
	Profits wine trade= huge!
	Specializing

Question 21

Florence

Answer 21

	North Italy 
	Fine Cloth, cotton, wool, silk 
	Can afford you go buy from Florence 
	Became rich on this market 
	Expanding to others over time

Question 22

Flanders

Answer 22

 Centers in North
 Textile not as fine as Florence
 But good quality
 England had tons of Sheep but didn’t have expertise to make wool into cloth
 Sent tons of wool to Flanders
Other areas of Europe specializing in other trades also

Question 23

Reintroduction of gold coinage

Answer 23

 Florence= 1258
 Florin
 Tipping point in expansion of trade

Question 24

1409

Answer 24

 Bank of Ginoa
 Wrote cheques to pay to people
 Instead of lugging round coinage
 Developing demanded the development of banks

Question 25

Bourgeois

Answer 25

	Middle class emerges 
	Lombard league= 12th century 
	want peace and quiet
	be able to count on goods they need
	North Italy cities come together 
	Form Lombard league

Question 26

Hansa

Answer 26

	North of Europe
	Like Lombard league 
	Hansa= union german 
	Middle class people 
	Traders 
	Common interests and mind sets

Question 27

Usury

Answer 27

	Taking any interest  money wise 
	Taking a loan is considered sinful by the church
	Charles magna made it illegal 
	Could borrow money in disguise 
	Rich merchants desperate for credit

Question 28

 Muslims

Answer 28

• Prohibit no interest on a loan
• Hard to get a mortgage
• Still to this day