NORMAN AND EARLY ANGEVIN TIMES

Medieval France and Normandy ( Centuries IX, X, XI )

Mar 1, 800

-The strongly centralized Carolingian government of France was braking up numerous states
- the feudalism as the principal bond
-Normandy had (powerful under its dukes, respect of others nations)
-Edwar the confessor introduce Norman into England

the reign of william the conqueror

Mar 15, 850

-Edward the confessor dead.
- Harold was chosen to succeed.
-William duke of Normandy claimed the english throne on the grounds that Edward had promised.

the reign of william the conqueror

Dec 15, 1066

-William colected a large army , secured the blessing of the pope, invaded England .
-Harold had suppressed English opposition, he was killed at the battle of hastings
- lost England to William, he was crowned king of christmas

reign of William the conqueror

Mar 15, 1067

-William proceeded to supress rebellions against his auhority
- Scots and Danes suffered and their territory ravanged by William's troops

William as king

Jun 15, 1068

• William them proceeded to centralize the feudal system of England
• William asserted all the Norman and English rights of kinship -William recode the results of a thorought economic survey of the country
• William introduced mutilations in punishments -William aside large tracts of land for hunting preserves

William and the church

Aug 15, 1069

-William encouraged the english clergy to set up courts.
- William controled appointments to church offices
William independed of the papal control

ANGLO-NORMAN FEUDALISM

Mar 15, 1076

-This term was used to discribe political, economic, social and military conditions in Europa
-specially after the death of Charlemagne
- Before the rise of adsolute monarchies
- The characteristics were a pwerful nobility, a numerous peasantry, weak kings and almost constant petty warfare
-William and his successors to extend in England

chavalry feudalism

Feb 15, 1077

-really affected only a few of the upper classes, was neverthelessspectacular and has fromed the theme of many a song story
- its knights, who swore swore to protect the church, the ladies and the helpless, gallantly fared forth in search of adventure and combat

Origin and nature Feudalism

Mar 15, 1077

• the great states of roman empire had many meany feactures similar to Medieval feudalmors -the romans controled his villas like a lord feudal
• immunities they were called weakened the central power and promoted feudalism

complexities of the system feudalism

Jul 15, 1077

-contained many contradictions
- a king might be a vassal of another king and really be more powerful that his lord
- vassals might be more responsible to their immediate overlord their king
- there was always danger of a combination of vassals against the king

elements of feudalism

Mar 15, 1079

-the personal elements was prominent, the vassal taking oaths of loyalty and promisisng to defend
-land economic for the king or lord granted large tracts of land called fiefs to others losrds or vassals
-there was also a military elemente

FEUDALISM IN ENGLAND

Mar 15, 1080

• several conditions combined to developed feudalism in Anglo-Saxon England
• weak central government, disorder, wealth computed in land instead of in money and the danish invasions
• the land tenure practice had not become common, however and military service was not always rendered in return for land

WILLIAM RUFUS

May 15, 1087

• he was a son of William the conqueror, became in king of England by will of this father and the sanction of great council -he had the support reather to robert -William Rufus was a good soldier and was courteous and energetic -he became involved in a bitter quarrel with anselm, archbishop o canterbury

HENRY I

Mar 15, 1106

-Henry I defeated duke Robert of Normandy when that individual attemped to dethrone him
- leater he in invaded Normandy and conquered it

Henry I

Mar 15, 1107

• he recalled Anselm as archbichop of Cantebury and made a treaty with hem on the investure question -it provided that highter clergy should be elected in the presence of the king or his official -in domestic affairs: he reformed the great council by requiring constant attendance of a select group -he began the practice of extending the king's justice through itinerant judges

ANGLO- NORMAN CIVILIZATION

Mar 15, 1120

-with the death Stephen the directline of Norman kings ended
- the new family the Angevins came into power
- in church affairs the Norman clergy who came to England introduced many reforms and improved economic conditions in the church
- they purget the benedictine and cluniac monasteries of immoral influence

ANGLO-NORMAN CIVILIZATION

Mar 16, 1122

-with the death of Stephen the direct line of Norman kings ended
-new family the Angevins came into power
-the Norman clergy who came to England introduced many reforms and improved economic conditions in the church

schools and scholars

Mar 16, 1122

-the church flowed in influences that promoted learning
-Lafranc, Anselm, Jhon of Sailsbury, Theobald of Stampes and other learned men from Europe came to England

STEPHEN VERSUS MATILDA

Mar 15, 1135

• upon death of Henry I his nephew, Stephen of blois (France) ascended the throne
• the Henry's daughter Matilda who fled to normandy
• Stephen antagonized some of the leading churchmen and nobles -M atilda continued to assert her claims to the thronewhereupon a period of civil war confusion

Stephen and Matilda

Mar 15, 1153

-it provided that Stephen should be king for life but Matilda's son Henry who Controlled Normandy, Anjou, Maine nad Aquitaine should succeed him