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Edward The Conqueror Legal System

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The Golden Ages William the Conqueror was a great admirer of Edward the Confessor and in particular the legislative and court administration system that this last of the House of Wessex had started to put in place to bring order to a kingdom that had been torn apart by the misrule of Canute’s two sons and Aethelred. The Normans were unused to laws as such but for William, given that he had doubled the size of his kingdom overnight, the need to be able to govern at a distance through decree was obvious. His written word must have the force of his physical presence in the future and somehow Edward the Confessor had performed this through the decree of laws. To reinforce his adoption of Edward’s legal system, the Conqueror began openly to …show more content…

Part of this required the eradication of the Plantagenet line and inviting Prince Louis of France to rule on the advice of Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury and 25 Barons mainly based in East Anglia. This very Norman kingdom needed a Norman legal system and so they looked to Henry I rather than Edward the Confessor as their role model, thus establishing Henry’s reign as a second ‘Golden Age’. The ‘Golden Age’ of Henry I was also seen as a brief period of stability between the Dark Years of Stephen of Blois and the chaos of William Rufus. England was thrown into the first of its many Civil Wars by a dispute over the throne between Stephen, Count of Blois and Eleanor of Aquitane. Stephen had stepped up in 1135 to claim the throne vacated by Henry I, who had died without an heir on the death of his only son when the royal barge sank in a storm (in mysterious circumstances if accounts of the time are to be …show more content…

Whilst the armies of King Stephen and Henry were facing each other and their leaders were attempting to negotiate a treaty to establish both peace and the succession to the kingdom of England, Prince Eustace died. Accounts of the death of Eustace range from natural causes to the prince’s assassination, but the death of Eustace was too timely to have been a coincidence and it took the fight out of Stephen. The King passed over his second son, William, and rapidly agreed to a treaty that would see Henry become his successor. Stephen died a year later in 1154 and Henry was undisputed King of England and Normandy as well as the heir to the growing Angevin Empire in

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As a child William the Conqueror was named Duke of Normandy upon his father’s death. This was just the first life changing event that occured in his monumental life. He went on to conquer England at the Battle of Hastings. After this victory William the Conqueror became king of England and made changes to the government and society that shape modern society today. William

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January 1066 was a time of chaos for medieval England. There were three people claiming the throne for themselves, and the result changed Europe forever. There was Harold Godwinson, the most powerful noble in England, who claimed that the king had promised to him the throne at the last minute, as he lay dying. There was William, Duke of Normandy, whom Edward had been friends with since they were children. Lastly, there was Harald Hadraada, a Norwegian noble who was given a claim to the English throne by King Magnus of Norway.

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The conqueror at the time was William Duke, who became duke at the age of eight. Many battles happened during the time till he was around the age of 25. He soon fought in many battles to claim is rightful thrown in England. After the countless battles he survived, he continued his fight to move onto England. William gathered his men at Dives-sur-Mer in Normandy on August 4th,1066 by September 12th they set sail for Saint-Valery because it was a shorter sea-crossing.

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Thomas Penn’s, Winter King, tells of the first king from the House of Tudor to rule England. Henry Tudor ruled England from 1485 until his death in 1509 . The house of Tudor ruled the English monarchy for the next century until 1603. During his reign England experienced peace, economic growth and political stability. Despite his tenuous claim to the throne, Henry managed to seize the throne and guide the monarchy through a period of transition.

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  Following the Battle of Bosworth of 1485, it was indisputable that Henry needed to establish new means of controlling the size and power of the nobility to levels which posed no threat to the throne. The Wars of the Roses 1455-85 resulted in 30 years of instability for England and thus Henry’s accession to the throne saw him take control of a fragmented country in which the crown was weak yet the nobility strong. Henry initially diluted noble power through the Act of Attainder which seized the titles and possessions of nobles suspected of disloyalty whilst simultaneously ensuring obedience as members of the nobility stood to lose everything should they be attained. Moreover, Henry was prepared to reverse an attainder if it would secure future loyalty evident in the fact that of the 138 attainders passed, 46 were later reversed.

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