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HISTORY - THE MIDDLE AGES - Coggle Diagram
HISTORY - THE MIDDLE AGES
NORMAN CONQUEST
King Harold - Anglo Saxon
Battle of Hastings
normans new
language
culture
royal family
1086 Domesday Book (register of value of lands...)
1066 Duke of Normandy
FEUDALISM
King owned land
Barons
knights
War: barons paid for professional soldiers
Pyramidal system, 3 estates
Com
Clergy
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War: king needed finaciers → merchants ⤊
Peasants → serfs bondend to landlords
land ownership ?
COMMON LAW & MAGNA CHARTA
King John (1199/1216)
1215 forced to sign MAGNA CHARTA
every body was subject to the law
imposed taxes to pay for wars
1258 Simon de Monfort → 1st Parliament
Henry II Plantagent (1154/89)
Commom Law
Trial by jury
reformed legal system
king Edward I → 1295 recognised Parliament, wider representation
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
🇬🇧 victories (Battle of Agincourt) and defeats (by Joan of Arch in Orléans)
End of war in 1453 Castillon 🇫🇷
1337 (English french possession)
WARS OF THE ROSES
Civil war LANCASTER🌹 →← YORK
End 1455
Henry Tudor 🔗 Elizabeth of York
End old feudalism
BLACK DEATH & PEASANTS' REVOLT
1380 → tax on whole population (peasants too)
⇒ 1381 Revolt led by Wat Tyler --> London occ
money for the war
Paradox: ↑ poor living conditions
Labour!!
Government first accepted demands
then reprisals and executions
1348 epidemic of bubonic plague
4 milon
Failure but improvement of life
⇡ respect, mobility prosperity