Feudelism And Government

Question 1

How much of William’s reign did he spend outside of England?

Answer 1

3\4

Question 2

What was the order of the feudal system?

Answer 2

Kings
Nobility
Knights
Vassals

Question 3

What does the king do?

Answer 3

Provides money and army in demand and bestows Land on his many nobles

Question 4

What do the nobles do to nights?

Answer 4

Give land to nights

Question 5

What do nobility do they the king?

Answer 5

Provide military and protection on demand

Question 6

What do the knights do for the vassals?

Answer 6

Give them land

Question 7

What do the vassals do for the knights?

Answer 7

Give them food and military on demand

Question 8

What do the knights do for the nobility?

Answer 8

Provide military and protection and loyalty on demand

Question 9

Give some similarities between the AS feudal system and the Norman one

Answer 9

Freemen had to obey their lord and Earls, bishops and barons shared their lands with people below them in the feudal system

Question 10

Give some differences between the AS feudal system and the Norman one

Answer 10

With Normans, the church had more land than the king (25% of land to the church and only 20% to the king)
AS Earls only promised loyalty but the barons and bishops had to swear an oath of loyalty

Question 11

What were tenants in chief?

Answer 11

Barons and bishops

Question 12

What did tenants on chief give for land? what does this show?

Answer 12

Loyalty and provided a certain number of knights to the king, significance for William as he knows exactly how many knights he’ll have for the year

Question 13

How did William constantly have military action for battles?

Answer 13

The Norman knights had to each serve at least 40 days unlike AS thegns

Question 14

How was William sure he had knights?

Answer 14

By 1100 he could call on about 5000 knights and continued to use the fyrd like the AS to make up the rest of the army

Question 15

When was the domesday book put together?

Answer 15

1085

Question 16

What was a geld?

Answer 16

Tax levied to pay for something specific like war

Question 17

What were hides?

Answer 17

Areas of land

Question 18

What were ploughs?

Answer 18

A machine used in farming to turn soil moved by either man or ox/ a measurement of how much land can be ploughed by ox

Question 19

What was a hundred?

Answer 19

A subdivision of AS shire which were 100 hides in size

Question 20

Who was the info in domesday books written by?

Answer 20

Latin scribes

Question 21

What was the domesday book for?

Answer 21

So the king can find out what he owns and how much money he has and to know the worths e.g. no of animals, hides, fishponds e.t.c

Question 22

How many knights were there and when?

Answer 22

1086, 20,000 Norman knights with 10,000 Norman settlers in England

Question 23

When was the survey partially complete by ?

Answer 23

1086

Question 24

What was the population of England in 1086?

Answer 24

15-20 million people

Question 25

How did the king conduct the domesday book?

Answer 25

-sent commissions to survey the land and split it up into 7 circuits

Question 26

Why wasn’t London and winehester included in the domesday book?

Answer 26

They were exempt form taxes

Question 27

Why where the west Morgan and Cumberland included in the domesday book?

Answer 27

They weren’t fully under Norman control

Question 28

Who completed the domesday book?

Answer 28

William Rufus

Question 29

How many did the survey show controlled the land?

Answer 29

Around 250 people similar to that of Edward the Confessor’s time

Question 30

When were there heavy geld taxes and why?

Answer 30

Between 1084-1086 to extract more money from tenants

Question 31

How did the survey allow William to gain more money?

Answer 31

Charge rents and tax people more efficiently

Question 32

How did the survey allow William to improve legal matters?

Answer 32

The survey reduced land disputes as everything everyone owned was written down

Question 33

What was the most significant benefit of the domesday book?

Answer 33

Financial benefit

Question 34

What was the least significant benefit from the domesday book?

Answer 34

Military benefit

Question 35

Were the marcher lords successful in keeping wales?

Answer 35

No it wasn’t until Edward I s reign when wales was fully controlled by the English

Question 36

When did William die?

Answer 36

9th September 1087 aged 59 from obesity

Question 37

Who did William split his kingdom between?

Answer 37

Sons letting eldest Robert control Normandy and younger son William Rufus become King of England and his son Henry getting £5000

Question 38

What happened to England once William died?

Answer 38

Robert tried to overtake England from William Rufus who tried to take the Dutchec of Normandy from Robert while Henry kept changing sides weakening them both

Question 39

Who were the suspects to William Rufus’s death?

Answer 39

Henry - to become king, warned William II not to go hunting Walter Tirel - close friend of Henry (ran away to France after William IIs death) Robert -to become king, once Henry was king, he threw Robert in Cardiff Castle prison until his death aged 80

Question 40

Who was most likely to have killed William Rufus

Answer 40

Walter Tirel as he would have done anything for Henry

Question 41

When did William Rufus die?

Answer 41

2nd August 1100

Question 42

What was a sheriff?

Answer 42

The kings chief legal official in an area

Question 43

What was Honorial Court?

Answer 43

Often in castles where tenants could appeal against their land lord

Question 44

What was primogeniture?

Answer 44

When the eldest son inherited all land and titles form his father while younger offspring were left with nothing

Question 45

What is ecclesiastical?

Answer 45

Issues concerning the church and religion

Question 46

What was a murdrum fine?

Answer 46

The navy fine payable to the king by an entire area where the criminal lived if a Norman earl was murdered

Question 47

How many shires was england split into under the AS?

Answer 47

134

Question 48

Who was in charge of each shire?

Answer 48

A sheriff

Question 49

What were shires split into?

Answer 49

Hundreds

Question 50

What did the sheriff actually do?

Answer 50

Acted as a barons deputy by making annual payments to the king, presiding over shire courts, collecting taxes and raising armies

Question 51

Give two things that continued from Anglo Saxon law into Norman law

Answer 51

Trial by water and the stocks

Question 52

Give features of the law introduced by the Normans

Answer 52

Hand to hand combat, castration and blindness

Question 53

What were problems with law in England?

Answer 53

- AS villages dumped bodies on Norman ones - laws mainly depended on where you lived - trial by battle was unfair as you could choose your contender

Question 54

How was the church able to help William keep law and order?

Answer 54

Because there was a church in every village which both rich and poor people would go to and people would obey the orders and instructions of church leaders as they knew that was how they could get to heaven

Question 55

What were the tithing and hue and cry system?

Answer 55

Set up under William I to track down those accused of crime

Question 56

What were forest laws and who introduced them?

Answer 56

William I, where if anyone got caught hunting in forests, they could be fined, mutilated or executed