THE 5 MAJOR REBELLIONS

Question 1

Conquest

Answer 1

Taking control of a place or country and the people by military force

Question 2

Siege

Answer 2

A military operation where an army force surround a town/city or building and cut off essential supply, for those inside to surrender

Question 3

Eadric the Wild

Answer 3

1. Norman earls extended their land in Shropshire and Herefordshire
2. Anglo-Saxons who held those lands were unhappy, especially, Eadric, and thus, rebel
3. 1067-1068

Question 4

City of Exeter

Answer 4

1. City of Exeter refused to submit to William
2. After William returned from Normandy, he wanted Exeter to swear loyalty and pay tribute to him
3. Exeter agreed to pay tribute but refused to swear loyalty to him.
4. A siege that lasted 18 days took place.
5. 1068

Question 5

Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons

Answer 5

1. Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons came back for revenge
2. Godwin and Edmund were defeated in a battle at the River Taw in Devon. They escaped alive, but their fate is unknown
3. 1069

Question 6

Rebellions in the north (Harrying of the North)

Answer 6

1. Two rebellions in the north resulted to William’s cruellest campaign in the winter of 1069-1070, known as “Harrying of the North”
2. In 1068, the first rebellion started by Edwin and Morcar in Mercia but they quickly surrendered to William.
3. The second rebellion involved the murder of Earl Robert Cumin (William’s trusted friend) and 900 Norman soldiers 1069. This angers William.
4. To teach people a lesson, William burnt villages and crops, poisoned the land and killed all animals.
5. Many people, whether they joined the rebellion or not, were killed too. Those that survived slowly starved to death
6. 1068-1069

Question 7

Hereward the Wake

Answer 7

1. The last rebellion took place between 1070-1071 with Hereward the Wake in Ely, East Anglia
2. 1070