revolt and resistance to normans
land held by Anglo Saxons was now owned by Norman's
castles and cathedrals built to project power and wealth
Edwin and modcar were english earls who chose to make edgar the atheling king
Edwin and modcar later submitted to William due to a lack of help from other nobles and were rewarded with land
he took the brothers as hostages when he went back to Normandy to ensure they didn't start a revolt
in 1068 they took no time to return to there earldoms and start to organizing a rebbelion in mercia
William was already fighting a series of revolts so he made his way north getting strength while he went the two brothers quickly gave up and were pardoned again but taken hostages but quikly escaped
harrying of the north
in 1068 William replaced modcar as earl of northumbria without consulting the locals which infuriated them them
they stormed the new earls palace and killed him along with 900 of his men
William ordered that every village from the umber to the tease to be destroyed they burnet farmstead raided towns and villages destroyed crops and slayed animals they even ploughed salt into the grou8nd so nothing would grow again
orderic vialses a 12th century historian said that over 100000 people had died
those who survived reportley ate dogs cats and even each other to survive and many fled south dying along the way
so the story goes in 1070 herrywood a exilied English rebel secretly returned to England,
he found his familys lands taken by normans and his brothers head hanging from the roof
in his fury he crept in to the Norman's who were singing and drinking an slaughtered them all and replaced his brothers head with theirs
herrywood then with the Danes laid siege to the monastery on the isle of ile on the fens in east Anglia
they belived they had a good chance as they had lots of food and also were joined by modcar
William determined to crush the siege built a massive mile long wooden walkways to the island but when they charged across it collapsed and the Normans in there heavy amour fell into the mud and died
next william went to a old whitch to curse the english whitch she did but they just burned down her wooden tower
after this William simply just bribed a monk to show him a secret passage to the monastery they went over and crushed the revolt