The Norman Conquest, which created a united England and Normandy under a single ruler for 88 years—a succession of four Norman kings—had many deep-rooted effects.

In 1215, King John of England faced discontent from his Barons, leading to the creation of the Magna Carta, a landmark document aimed at limiting royal authority. The film outlines the historical ...

Photo by Tim Graham / Getty Images When William the Conqueror ’s Norman army invaded England in 1066, the country’s elites found their world changed overnight.

In Search of England by Michael Wood (Penguin, 2000). Contains an essay on the Norman Yoke, which draws together the strands of this idea, the excavations at Hen Domen, and the full story of the ...

A trove of 2,584 silver coins from the time of the Norman Conquest has been bought in the U nited K ingdom for more than $5 million — making it the country's highest-value discovery ever made by ...

Pre-1066, the English lived free under the law and these liberties were lost to the Normans and the succeeding rulers of England. In their place was imposed Norman law, foreign law, French law.

LONDON — It is probably the most famous piece of medieval embroidery in the world, a ribbon of scrolling tapestry 70 yards long that tells in pictures the story of the Norman Conquest of England ...

Norman Conquest Coin Hoard. Top 10 Discoveries of 2019 January/February 2020. ... defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson (r. 1066), at the Battle of Hastings, ...

The original Bayeux Tapestry is a huge embroidered panel illustrating the Battle of Hastings and other historical scenes surrounding the Norman conquest of England in the year 1066. It was crafted ...

Essential Norman Conquest: contains a timeline which you can click on to find out what was happening at that particular point in 1066. Offers a full, scrollable version of the Tapestry.