Changing Lessons, Changing Lives-Volume One (Chainging Lessons Changing Lives Book 1)

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Lesson pack What can we learn about England in the 11th century? In fact there are two Domesday Books — Little Domesday and Great Domesday, which together contain a great deal of information about England in the 11th century. In , King William I the Conqueror wanted to find out about all the land in his new kingdom: Fixed questions were asked, such as what the place was called, who owned it, how many men lived there, how many cows were there and so on.

All the results of these questions were handwritten into the Domesday Book by scribes.

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Harold Godwin was crowned King of England. Two other men claimed that the throne belonged to them: Harold Hardrada invaded the north of England but the King managed to defeat his army. Shortly after, William — had landed in the south of England. On 14 October , the English and Norman armies clashed in a battle just outside Hastings, in which Harold died — legend has it that King Harold was shot in the eye by an arrow!

William took all the land and important jobs in the Government and Church away from the Saxons and divided it up amongst his Norman friends. He built castles to make the English feel so scared that they would not dare even to think about causing trouble. By , William had a shortage of money and also many Normans had begun to disagree amongst themselves over the land they had been given as a reward for helping conquer England.

William wanted to settle these disputes once and for all.

Thus William decided to order a survey. The survey would list all the land in England.

It would list who was looking after each area, what lands they had, and which other people lived there. Importantly, the survey would find out how much tax-money William could get from this land. Official government inspectors were sent around the country to gather information. A jury, which included the local important men such as the village priest and reeve who could understand the different languages, had to decide whether their neighbours were telling the truth.

The results of this survey were written into Domesday Book. Great Domesday contains most of the counties of England and was written by one scribe and checked by a second.

Little Domesday, which contains the information for Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, was probably written first and is the work of at least six scribes. Domesday Book describes almost all of England and more than 13, places are mentioned in it. Most of them still survive today. Most of the land originally owned by Saxons belonged to Norman barons in , showing just how powerful the Norman lords had become!

Extract of page from Vol. This lesson could be used for History at key stage 3 year 7 , within Unit 2: How did medieval monarchs keep control?

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