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.The Norman Conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of by an army of, Flemish, and French soldiers led by the, later styled.William's claim to the derived from his familial relationship with the childless king, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne. Edward died in January 1066 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law. The invaded northern England in September 1066 and was victorious at the, but Godwinson's army defeated and killed Hardrada at the on 25 September. Within days, William landed in southern England. Harold marched south to oppose him, leaving a significant portion of his army in the north.
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Harold's army confronted William's invaders on 14 October at the; William's force defeated Harold, who was killed in the engagement.Although William's main rivals were gone, he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072. The lands of the resisting were confiscated; some of the elite fled into exile.
To control his new kingdom, William granted lands to his followers and built castles commanding military strongpoints throughout the land with the, a manuscript record of the 'Great Survey' of much of England and parts of Wales being completed by 1086. Other effects of the conquest included the and government, the introduction of the as the language of the elites, and changes in the composition of the upper classes, as William lands to be held directly from the king. More gradual changes affected the agricultural classes and village life: the main change appears to have been the formal elimination of, which may or may not have been linked to the invasion. There was little alteration in the structure of government, as the new Norman administrators took over many of the forms of Anglo-Saxon government. 13th-century depiction of (top) and his descendants andIn 911 the ruler allowed a group of under their leader to settle in as part of the. In exchange for the land, the Norsemen under Rollo were expected to provide protection along the coast against further Viking invaders.
Their settlement proved successful, and the Vikings in the region became known as the 'Northmen' from which 'Normandy' and 'Normans' are derived. The Normans quickly adopted the indigenous culture as they became assimilated by the French, renouncing and converting to. They adopted the of their new home and added features from their own, transforming it into the. They intermarried with the local population and used the territory granted to them as a base to extend the frontiers of the duchy westward, annexing territory including the, the and.In 1002 English king married, the sister of. Their son, who spent many years in exile in Normandy, succeeded to the English throne in 1042. This led to the establishment of a powerful Norman interest in English politics, as Edward drew heavily on his former hosts for support, bringing in Norman courtiers, soldiers, and clerics and appointing them to positions of power, particularly in the Church. Childless and embroiled in conflict with the formidable and his sons, Edward may also have encouraged Duke William of Normandy's ambitions for the English throne.When King Edward died at the beginning of 1066, the lack of a clear heir led to a disputed succession in which several contenders laid claim to the throne of England.
Edward's immediate successor was the, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats. Harold was elected king by the of England and crowned by the, although Norman propaganda claimed the ceremony was performed by, the elected. Harold was immediately challenged by two powerful neighbouring rulers.
Duke William claimed that he had been promised the throne by King Edward and that Harold had sworn agreement to this; King Harald III of Norway, commonly known as Harald Hardrada, also contested the succession. His claim to the throne was based on an agreement between his predecessor, and the earlier English king, whereby if either died without heir, the other would inherit both England and Norway. William and Harald at once set about assembling troops and ships to invade England. Tostig's raids and the Norwegian invasion. Main article:In early 1066, Harold's exiled brother, raided southeastern England with a fleet he had recruited in, later joined by other ships from.
Threatened by Harold's fleet, Tostig moved north and raided in and, but he was driven back to his ships by the brothers,. Deserted by most of his followers, Tostig withdrew to Scotland, where he spent the summer recruiting fresh forces. King Harold spent the summer on the south coast with a large army and fleet waiting for William to invade, but the bulk of his forces were militia who needed to harvest their crops, so on 8 September Harold dismissed them.King Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of more than 300 ships carrying perhaps 15,000 men. Harald's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who threw his support behind the Norwegian king's bid for the throne. Advancing on York, the Norwegians defeated a northern English army under Edwin and Morcar on 20 September at the. The two earls had rushed to engage the Norwegian forces before King Harold could arrive from the south.
Although Harold Godwinson had married Edwin and Morcar's sister, the two earls may have distrusted Harold and feared that the king would replace Morcar with Tostig. The end result was that their forces were devastated and unable to participate in the rest of the campaigns of 1066, although the two earls survived the battle.Hardrada moved on to York, which surrendered to him.
After taking hostages from the leading men of the city, on 24 September the Norwegians moved east to the tiny village of. King Harold probably learned of the Norwegian invasion in mid-September and rushed north, gathering forces as he went. The royal forces probably took nine days to cover the distance from London to York, averaging almost 25 miles (40 kilometres) per day. At dawn on 25 September Harold's forces reached York, where he learned the location of the Norwegians. The English then marched on the invaders and took them by surprise, defeating them in the. Harald of Norway and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such horrific losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors. The English victory was costly, however, as Harold's army was left in a battered and weakened state, and far from the English Channel.
Norman invasion Norman preparations and forces William assembled a large invasion fleet and an army gathered from Normandy and all over France, including large contingents from and Flanders. He mustered his forces at and was ready to cross the Channel by about 12 August.
The exact numbers and composition of William's force are unknown. A contemporary document claims that William had 726 ships, but this may be an inflated figure.
Figures given by contemporary writers are highly exaggerated, varying from 14,000 to 150,000 men. Modern historians have offered a range of estimates for the size of William's forces: 7000–8000 men, 1000–2000 of them cavalry; 10,000–12,000 men; 10,000 men, 3000 of them cavalry; or 7500 men. The army would have consisted of a mix of cavalry, infantry, and archers or crossbowmen, with about equal numbers of cavalry and archers and the foot soldiers equal in number to the other two types combined. Although later lists of are extant, most are padded with extra names; only about 35 individuals can be reliably claimed to have been with William at Hastings.states that William obtained Pope 's consent for the invasion, signified by a papal banner, along with diplomatic support from other European rulers. Although Alexander did give papal approval to the conquest after it succeeded, no other source claims papal support before the invasion.
William's army assembled during the summer while an invasion fleet in Normandy was constructed. Although the army and fleet were ready by early August, adverse winds kept the ships in Normandy until late September. There were probably other reasons for William's delay, including intelligence reports from England revealing that Harold's forces were deployed along the coast.
William would have preferred to delay the invasion until he could make an unopposed landing. Landing and Harold's march south. Landing in England scene from the, depicting ships coming in and horses landingThe Normans crossed to England a few days after Harold's victory over the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge on 25 September, following the dispersal of Harold's naval force.
They landed at in on 28 September and erected a wooden castle at, from which they raided the surrounding area. This ensured supplies for the army, and as Harold and his family held many of the lands in the area, it weakened William's opponent and made him more likely to attack to put an end to the raiding.Harold, after defeating his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada in the north, left much of his force there, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest of his army south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion. It is unclear when Harold learned of William's landing, but it was probably while he was travelling south. Harold stopped in London for about a week before reaching Hastings, so it is likely that he took a second week to march south, averaging about 27 miles (43 kilometres) per day, for the nearly 200 miles (320 kilometres) to London. Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke. The exact events preceding the battle remain obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy. Harold had taken up a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill (present-day ), about 6 miles (10 kilometres) from William's castle at Hastings.Contemporary sources do not give reliable data on the size and composition of Harold's army, although two Norman sources give figures of 1.2 million or 400,000 men.
Recent historians have suggested figures of between 5000 and 13,000 for Harold's army at Hastings, but most agree on a range of between 7000 and 8000 English troops. These men would have comprised a mix of the (militia mainly composed of foot soldiers) and the, or nobleman's personal troops, who usually also fought on foot. The main difference between the two types was in their armour; the housecarls used better protecting armour than that of the fyrd. The English army does not appear to have had many archers, although some were present. The identities of few of the Englishmen at Hastings are known; the most important were Harold's brothers. About 18 other named individuals can reasonably be assumed to have fought with Harold at Hastings, including two other relatives.
Hastings. The remains of, the second built by William in YorkEarly in 1069 the newly installed Norman Earl of Northumbria, and several hundred soldiers accompanying him were massacred at Durham; the Northumbrian rebellion was joined by Edgar, Gospatric, and other rebels who had taken refuge in Scotland.
The castellan of York, Robert fitzRichard, was defeated and killed, and the rebels besieged the Norman castle at York. William hurried north with an army, defeated the rebels outside York and pursued them into the city, massacring the inhabitants and bringing the revolt to an end. He built a second castle at York, strengthened Norman forces in Northumbria and then returned south. A subsequent local uprising was crushed by the garrison of York.
Harold's sons launched a second raid from Ireland and were defeated in Devon by Norman forces under Count, a son of. In August or September 1069 a large fleet sent by arrived off the coast of England, sparking a new wave of rebellions across the country. After abortive raids in the south, the Danes joined forces with a new Northumbrian uprising, which was also joined by Edgar, Gospatric and the other exiles from Scotland as well as Waltheof. The combined Danish and English forces defeated the Norman garrison at York, seized the castles and took control of Northumbria, although a raid into Lincolnshire led by Edgar was defeated by the Norman garrison of.At the same time resistance flared up again in western Mercia, where the forces of Eadric the Wild, together with his Welsh allies and further rebel forces from and Shropshire, attacked the castle at. In the south-west, rebels from Devon and Cornwall attacked the Norman garrison at Exeter but were repulsed by the defenders and scattered by a Norman relief force under Count Brian. Other rebels from, Somerset and neighbouring areas besieged but were defeated by a Norman army gathered from London, and under. Meanwhile, William attacked the Danes, who had moored for the winter south of the Humber in Lincolnshire, and drove them back to the north bank.
Leaving in charge of Lincolnshire, he turned west and defeated the Mercian rebels in battle at. When the Danes attempted to return to Lincolnshire, the Norman forces there again drove them back across the Humber. William advanced into Northumbria, defeating an attempt to block his crossing of the swollen at. The Danes fled at his approach, and he occupied York. He bought off the Danes, who agreed to leave England in the spring, and during the winter of 1069–70 his forces systematically devastated Northumbria in the, subduing all resistance. As a symbol of his renewed authority over the north, William ceremonially wore his crown at York on Christmas Day 1069.In early 1070, having secured the submission of Waltheof and Gospatric, and driven Edgar and his remaining supporters back to Scotland, William returned to Mercia, where he based himself at Chester and crushed all remaining resistance in the area before returning to the south.
Arrived and at Easter re-crowned William, which would have symbolically reasserted his right to the kingdom. William also oversaw a purge of prelates from the Church, most notably Stigand, who was deposed from Canterbury.
The papal legates also imposed on William and those of his supporters who had taken part in Hastings and the subsequent campaigns. As well as Canterbury, the had become vacant following the death of Ealdred in September 1069. Both sees were filled by men loyal to William:, abbot of William's foundation at, received Canterbury while, one of William's chaplains, was installed at York. Some other bishoprics and abbeys also received new bishops and abbots and William confiscated some of the wealth of the English monasteries, which had served as repositories for the assets of the native nobles.
Danish troubles. Coin of Sweyn II of DenmarkIn 1070 Sweyn II of Denmark arrived to take personal command of his fleet and renounced the earlier agreement to withdraw, sending troops into to join forces with English rebels led by, at that time based on the. Sweyn soon accepted a further payment of from William, and returned home. After the departure of the Danes the Fenland rebels remained at large, protected by the marshes, and early in 1071 there was a final outbreak of rebel activity in the area.
Edwin and Morcar again turned against William, and although Edwin was quickly betrayed and killed, Morcar reached, where he and Hereward were joined by exiled rebels who had sailed from Scotland. William arrived with an army and a fleet to finish off this last pocket of resistance.
After some costly failures the Normans managed to construct a pontoon to reach the Isle of Ely, defeated the rebels at the bridgehead and stormed the island, marking the effective end of English resistance. Morcar was imprisoned for the rest of his life; Hereward was pardoned and had his lands returned to him. Last resistance. The, originally begun by William the Conqueror to control LondonOnce England had been conquered, the Normans faced many challenges in maintaining control. They were few in number compared to the native English population; including those from other parts of France, historians estimate the number of Norman landholders at around 8000.
William's followers expected and received lands and titles in return for their service in the invasion, but William claimed ultimate possession of the land in England over which his armies had given him de facto control, and asserted the right to dispose of it as he saw fit. Henceforth, all land was 'held' directly from the king in in return for military service. A Norman lord typically had properties located in a piecemeal fashion throughout England and Normandy, and not in a single geographic block.To find the lands to compensate his Norman followers, William initially confiscated the estates of all the English lords who had fought and died with Harold and redistributed part of their lands. These confiscations led to revolts, which resulted in more confiscations, a cycle that continued for five years after the Battle of Hastings. To put down and prevent further rebellions the Normans constructed castles and fortifications in unprecedented numbers, initially mostly on the pattern.
Historian Robert Liddiard remarks that 'to glance at the urban landscape of Norwich, Durham or Lincoln is to be forcibly reminded of the impact of the Norman invasion'. William and his barons also exercised tighter control over inheritance of property by widows and daughters, often forcing marriages to Normans.A measure of William's success in taking control is that, from 1072 until the of Normandy in 1204, William and his successors were largely absentee rulers. For example, after 1072, William spent more than 75 per cent of his time in France rather than England. While he needed to be personally present in Normandy to defend the realm from foreign invasion and put down internal revolts, he set up royal administrative structures that enabled him to rule England from a distance. Consequences Elite replacement A direct consequence of the invasion was the almost total elimination of the old English aristocracy and the loss of English control over the in England.
William systematically dispossessed English landowners and conferred their property on his continental followers. The meticulously documents the impact of this colossal programme of expropriation, revealing that by 1086 only about 5 percent of land in England south of the was left in English hands. Even this tiny residue was further diminished in the decades that followed, the elimination of native landholding being most complete in southern parts of the country.Natives were also removed from high governmental and ecclesiastical office. After 1075 all earldoms were held by Normans, and Englishmen were only occasionally appointed as sheriffs. Likewise in the Church, senior English office-holders were either expelled from their positions or kept in place for their lifetimes and replaced by foreigners when they died. By 1096 no bishopric was held by any Englishman, and English abbots became uncommon, especially in the larger monasteries. English emigration.
Depiction of the from the 12th-centuryFollowing the conquest, many Anglo-Saxons, including groups of nobles, fled the country for Scotland, Ireland, or Scandinavia. Members of King Harold Godwinson's family sought refuge in Ireland and used their bases in that country for unsuccessful invasions of England.
The largest single exodus occurred in the 1070s, when a group of Anglo-Saxons in a fleet of 235 ships sailed for the. The empire became a popular destination for many English nobles and soldiers, as the Byzantines were in need of mercenaries. The English became the predominant element in the elite, until then a largely Scandinavian unit, from which the emperor's bodyguard was drawn. Some of the English migrants were settled in Byzantine frontier regions on the coast, and established towns with names such as New London and New York.
Governmental systems. English counties in 1086Before the Normans arrived, Anglo-Saxon governmental systems were more sophisticated than their counterparts in Normandy. All of England was divided into administrative units called, with subdivisions; the royal court was the centre of government, and a justice system based on local and regional tribunals existed to secure the rights of free men. Shires were run by officials known as shire. Most medieval governments were always on the move, holding court wherever the weather and food or other matters were best at the moment; England had a permanent treasury at before William's conquest.
One major reason for the strength of the English monarchy was the wealth of the kingdom, built on the English system of taxation that included a land tax, or the geld. English coinage was also superior to most of the other currency in use in northwestern Europe, and the ability to mint coins was a royal monopoly. The English kings had also developed the system of issuing to their officials, in addition to the normal medieval practice of issuing.
Writs were either instructions to an official or group of officials, or notifications of royal actions such as appointments to office or a grant of some sort. Page from the Domesday surveyThis sophisticated medieval form of government was handed over to the Normans and was the foundation of further developments.
They kept the framework of government but made changes in the personnel, although at first the new king attempted to keep some natives in office. By the end of William's reign most of the officials of government and the royal household were Normans. The language of official documents also changed, from to Latin. The forest laws were introduced, leading to the setting aside of large sections of England as.
The Domesday survey was an administrative catalogue of the landholdings of the kingdom, and was unique to medieval Europe. It was divided into sections based on the shires, and listed all the landholdings of each of the king as well as who had held the land before the conquest. Language One of the most obvious effects of the conquest was the introduction of, a northern -influenced dialect of, as the language of the ruling classes in England, displacing Old English.
Words entered the English language, and a further sign of the shift was the usage of names common in France instead of. Male names such as, and soon became common; female names changed more slowly. The Norman invasion had little impact on, which had changed significantly after earlier. It is not known precisely how much English the Norman invaders learned, nor how much the knowledge of Norman French spread among the lower classes, but the demands of trade and basic communication probably meant that at least some of the Normans and native English were bilingual. Nevertheless, never developed a working knowledge of English and for centuries afterwards English was not well understood by the nobility. Immigration and intermarriage An estimated 8000 Normans and other continentals settled in England as a result of the conquest, although exact figures cannot be established. Some of these new residents intermarried with the native English, but the extent of this practice in the years immediately after Hastings is unclear.
Several marriages are attested between Norman men and English women during the years before 1100, but such marriages were uncommon. Most Normans continued to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English.
Within a century of the invasion, intermarriage between the native English and the Norman immigrants had become common. By the early 1160s, was writing that intermarriage was common in all levels of society.
Modern-day reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon village atThe impact of the conquest on the lower levels of English society is difficult to assess. The major change was the elimination of, which had disappeared by the middle of the 12th century.
There were about 28,000 slaves listed in Domesday Book in 1086, fewer than had been enumerated for 1066. In some places, such as Essex, the decline in slaves was 20 per cent for the 20 years. The main reasons for the decline in slaveholding appear to have been the disapproval of the Church and the cost of supporting slaves, who unlike, had to be maintained entirely by their owners. The practice of slavery was not outlawed, and the from the reign of King Henry I continue to mention slaveholding as legal.Many of the free peasants of Anglo-Saxon society appear to have lost status and become indistinguishable from the non-free serfs. Whether this change was due entirely to the conquest is unclear, but the invasion and its after-effects probably accelerated a process already under way.
The spread of towns and increase in nucleated settlements in the countryside, rather than scattered farms, was probably accelerated by the coming of the Normans to England. The lifestyle of the peasantry probably did not greatly change in the decades after 1066. Although earlier historians argued that women became less free and lost rights with the conquest, current scholarship has mostly rejected this view. Little is known about women other than those in the landholding class, so no conclusions can be drawn about peasant women's status after 1066. Noblewomen appear to have continued to influence political life mainly through their kinship relationships.
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Both before and after 1066 aristocratic women could own land, and some women continued to have the ability to dispose of their property as they wished. Historiography Debate over the conquest started almost immediately. The, when discussing the death of William the Conqueror, denounced him and the conquest in verse, but the king's obituary notice from William of Poitiers, a Frenchman, was full of praise. Historians since then have argued over the facts of the matter and how to interpret them, with little agreement. The theory or myth of the ' arose in the 17th century, the idea that Anglo-Saxon society had been freer and more equal than the society that emerged after the conquest.
This theory owes more to the period in which it was developed than to historical facts, but it continues to be used to the present day in both political and popular thought.In the 20th and 21st centuries historians have focused less on the rightness or wrongness of the conquest itself, instead concentrating on the effects of the invasion. Some, such as, have seen the conquest as a critical turning point in history. Southern stated that 'no country in Europe, between the rise of the barbarian kingdoms and the 20th century, has undergone so radical a change in so short a time as England experienced after 1066'.
Other historians, such as H. Richardson and G.
Sayles, believe that the transformation was less radical. In more general terms, Singman has called the conquest 'the last echo of the national migrations that characterized the early Middle Ages'.
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The debate over the impact of the conquest depends on how change after 1066 is measured. If was already evolving before the invasion, with the introduction of, castles or other changes in society, then the conquest, while important, did not represent radical reform. But the change was dramatic if measured by the elimination of the English nobility or the loss of Old English as a literary language. Nationalistic arguments have been made on both sides of the debate, with the Normans cast as either the persecutors of the English or the rescuers of the country from a decadent Anglo-Saxon nobility.