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THE RISE OF THE NORMANS

THE RISE OF THE NORMANS. [THE WAR FOR ENGLAND]. PREVIOUSLY…. 5-6 th C Local Britons having problems with Picts , invite Anglo-Saxons over to help Anglo Saxons want to stay, Britons give them Kent They want more – they take it Britons flee to modern day Wales. 6-8 th C

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THE RISE OF THE NORMANS

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  1. THE RISE OF THE NORMANS [THE WAR FOR ENGLAND]

  2. PREVIOUSLY…. • 5-6th C • Local Britons having problems with Picts, invite Anglo-Saxons over to help • Anglo Saxons want to stay, Britons give them Kent • They want more – they take it • Britons flee to modern day Wales • 6-8th C • Anglo-Saxon form kingdoms, civil wars over who is the true King (or bretwalda) • 8th – 9th C • 786 Vikings begin to raid Britain and fight wars with the ruling Anglo-Saxons

  3. SO WHAT HAPPENED with THOSE VIKINGS? • THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY of the Danish Vikings arrives in England in 865 AD • Led by Ragnar & Ivar the Boneless takes over nearly all of England

  4. ALRED OF WESSEX

  5. ALFRED – THE GREAT • King of Wessex (Anglo-Saxon) • Creates the burghal system to re-organize military defense • BURGH: a mound of earth surrounded by a ditch often with a palisade wall WHY DID HE THINK THISWOULD WORK?

  6. ALFRED THE GREAT • THE FYRD – What we would think of as conscription (the Draft) • All able bodied English (Anglo-Saxons) were part of the fyrd, they had to provide their own weapons • The fyrd was called upon in emergency situationsAlfred re-emphasizes the fyrd and turns them from a conscripted poorly trained commoners into a capable fighting force.

  7. ALFRED’s REFORMS - RESULTS? • Alfred and his army beat back the Vikings out of Wessex • Treaty is agreed upon, and Vikings forced to give lands back to Anglo-Saxons but can stay in Danelaw Does defeating an army and forcing them to take only ½ of a country that was yours to begin with make you great?

  8. Late 9th Century England • Danelaw: Danish Viking Kings • Wessex: Led by Anglo-Saxon Kings (The English) • Northumbria: Norwegian Viking kings. **Vikings are not all one people there are different groups of them.

  9. 10th C: SIGNIFICANT EVENTS • Guthrum (Danes) gets converted to Christianity • 910 – English def. Danish Vikings • 954 – English def. Eric Bloodaxe & the Norwegian Vikings BY 954 ALL THE VIKINGS ARE OUT OF ENGLAND or too Christian to fight us

  10. ethelred the Unready • King of England 978 – 1016 AD • THE VIKINGS RETURN! • But Ethelred thinks of a plan to send them home….

  11. CNUT (Canute) THE GREAT • KING OF DENMARK • KING OF NORWAY And thanks to Ethelred being the Unready and paying him $$$ to stay away…he shows up conquers England and becomes THE KING OF ENGLAND…

  12. IF YOUR KEEPING TRACK…

  13. VIKING EMPIRE OF CNUT

  14. CNUT DIES---Who takes the EMPIRE? • Cnut’s son wants to go home to Denmark and be King there… • So the new King becomes the son of the previous king (Ethelred the Unready) his son is: • EDWARD THE CONFESSOR • Takes back much of England and then he dies too

  15. WHO SUCCEEDS?

  16. Who THE HECK ARE THE NORMANS • Normandy is a region in coastal France, right across the English channel from England

  17. CONFLICT • RUMOUR: Edward chose William of Normandy to be the heir, Edward dies without his true intentions being known. • HAROLD (England)is crowned King • HAROLD HADRADA (Norway): “OH HELL NOOOOOO!” And invades England… BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE: English Harold defeats Norwegian Harold

  18. Not oVERyEt… • The next day William of Normandy lands in England • Harold has to rush his army south to Hasting.

  19. Battle of Hastings • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLy1LskT6Y8 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8OPQ_28mdo

  20. DÉJÀ VU? • WHO RULED GREECE? • First Myceneans • Then Athens • Then Sparta • Then Athens • Then Sparta • Then Athens • Then Thebes • But in the end… • WHO RULED ENGLAND? • First Britons • Then Anglo-Saxons • Then Vikings • Then Anglo-Saxons • Then Vikings • Then Anglo-Saxons • Then Vikings • But in the end… NORMANS MACEDONS

  21. WILLIAM OF NORMANDY • More Famously known as WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR • Goes on to conquer England.. • HOW he did it. & • WHAT he did there.

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