1042-65 Reign of Edward the Confessor

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1042-65 Reign of Edward the Confessor 1066
Battle of Hastings Harold Godwineson Harold
Hardrada William of Normandy
Map Link Dominions of William the Conqueror
about 1087 lthttp//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histo
rical/shepherd/ williams_dominions_1087.jpggt
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1087 Death of William the Conqueror. William II
Rufus gets England, Robert gets Normandy 1100
William Rufus killed in New Forest 1100-35 Reign
of Henry I Corps of royal justices Employment
of sheriffs Treasurer and two chamberlains of
the exchequer at Winchester
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Matilda, wife of Geoffrey of Anjou Stephen of
Blois (r. 1135-54) Henry Plantagenet
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Capetians Ile-de-France Philip I (r. 1060-1108)
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061.jpggt
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1108-37 Reign of Louis the Fat 1125 Louis places
Suger, Abbot of St Denis (d. 1151) in charge of
civil administration 1137 Marriage of Eleanor of
Aquitaine to future Louis VII 1137-80 Reign of
Louis VII
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1137-80 Reign of Louis VII 1152 Annulment of
marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Eleanor marries Henry Plantagenet 1165 Louis
VII and Adèle of Blois have a son, Philip (II
Augustus)
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s.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/ shepherd-c-0
69.jpggt
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Henry II (r. 1154-89) Angevin Empire
(Anjou) Taking control of nobility Increasing
state income - scutage
Map Link Angevin Empire lthttp//go.grolier.com/
map?idmh00069pidgogt
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Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164 Bishops to do
homage for secular lands before
consecration No appeals to pope by clergy
without royal permission Clerics accused of
criminal offenses to be degraded by
ecclesiastical court, punished by royal court
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Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-70)
double jeopardy
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1160s Henry institutes procedure to bring cases
to court even if the injured party is unable
to 1179 Henry expands use of juries common
law Henrys court as intellectual centre
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1189 Henry dies after defeated by Richard
and Philip II Augustus 1189-99 Reign of Richard
I Lionheart 1199-1216 Reign of King John
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Suger of St Denis (c. 1081-1151)
Childhood friend of Louis VI. Monastic education.
Rose through ranks. 1121-22 Elected Abbot of St
Denis Advisor to Louis VI and Louis VII. Regent
of France while Louis VII on Second
Crusade Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Originally compiled for Alfred the Great (r.
871-99) c. 890 Continued up to mid-12th
c. Mostly Anglo-Saxon, some last parts
Middle English
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William of Newburgh (1136-c. 1198)
English chronicler. Entered Augustine priory of
Newburgh as boy to study. Remained there until
death Historia Rerum Anglicarum (c.
1196-98), covering 1066-1198, written at
request of Abbot of Rievaux