Birth of Centralized Government in England: William the Conqueror and Henry II

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Birth of Centralized Government in
EnglandWilliam the ConquerorandHenry II
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Terms To Know

• Nobility
• Kingdom of Wessex
• Edward the Confessor
• Harold Godwinson
• Barons
• William the Conqueror
• Harald Hardrada of Norway
• Battle of Hastings
• Motte-And-Bailey Castle
• Domesday Book
• Henry II

• Stephen
• Common Law
• stare decisis
• Scutage
• Precedent
• Bureaucracy
• Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Richard I
• John Lackland
• Magna Carta
• Runnymede

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England, c. 650 CE
England, 1066 CE and beyond
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Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry
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Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry
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Last Anglo-Saxon Kings Of England
Ethelred the Unready (king, died 1016)
Earl Godwin
Son
Daughter
Edward the Confessor (king, 1042-1066)
Harold Godwinson (king, 1066)
Edith
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Anglo-Norman Kings Of England
William the Conqueror (king, 1066-1087)
Robert Curthose
William II Rufus (king, 1087-1100)
Henry I (king, 1100-1135)
Adela
Geoffrey Count of Anjou
Matilda
Stephen (king, 1135-1154)
Henry II (king, 1154-1189)
Henry
Richard I (king , 1189-1199)
John (king, 1199-1216)
Geoffrey
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Maiden Bower, Yorkshire, built about 1071 (aerial
view)
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Arundel Castle, with original Motte (11th
Century) and later stone additions
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