Map Of The Norman Conquest

ane. Earlier (911-933)

The duchy of Normandy shared the same outline as the onetime ecclesiastical province of Rouen that the Carolingian rulers could not defend against the Breton and Viking attacks. In 911, Charles the Simple, king of French republic, granted land to a Scandinavian leader called Rollo effectually the metropolis Rouen in exchange for help against other Viking leaders and for his own conversion to Christianity. Having become princes in the Franks' kingdom, the counts of Rouen became dukes of Normandy and in 924 were granted new lands in central Normandy (around Bayeux and Falaise). Then, in 933, the Cotentin, ruled by the Bretons since 843, was handed over to William Long Sword. In England, the kings of Wessex under Alfred the Groovy led a fightback confronting the Vikings who had conquered many of the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Under Alfred'southward son Edward the Elder, much of cardinal England and the kingdom of East Anglia submitted to him in 918. By Edward's expiry in 924 he had extended his rule across England, a process consolidated past his son Athelstan. By 1066 the rival kingdoms were unified into a single one - England.

2. 1066 and afterward

In 1066, William the Conquistador, duke of Normandy, inherited from his predecessors a land well-integrated into the Franks' kingdom, but which was almost independent politically.

William either strengthened his domination over his neighbours or forged alliances with them. Every bit did his predecessors, he followed closely the political situation in England and took reward of Edward the Confessor's expiry to seize the throne and share the kingdom with his allies. At the aforementioned time, another Norman dynasty settled downwards in Sicily and as far as Syria (Antioch) during the Crusades. Under Norman dominion, London and Palermo were the nearly magnificent of European courts.

3. The Norman Empire (1155)

Being the heir of the Norman dukes and kings of England, of the counts of Anjou and the dukes of Aquitaine, Henry Ii Piatagaret ruled over a ready of provinces from the border of Scotland down to the Pyrenees. More half of the kingdom of France was under his dominance. Wales, Scotland and Ireland were also under his rule but on different terms. The final confrontation between Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and Norman aristocracies brought well-nigh 150 years of provinces ruled past the successors of the Conqueror.

iv. The Stop (1204)

The Anglo-Norman provinces under Plantagenet dominion were scattered across vast territories and were impacted by its quarrelling family's succession problems. Richard the Lionheart spent most of his life away from the kingdom of England and King John failed in tackling the attacks of French king Philip Augustus as well equally the revolt of his barons. Past confiscating his lands on the continent in 1204, the king of France reclaimed all state lost since 911. The Channel Islands are the only balance of the duchy of Normandy under English rule.