Important Notes

Alfred the Great you had the Anglos and the Saxon's combined together to create the Anglo-Saxons.
Edward the Confessor was the last Anglo-Saxon king.
When he died he had no direct heir so it lead to a war.
The was was called the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Edwards brother-in-law was Herold Godwinson.
Other people thought that their was no connection, so the wanted William the Duke of Normandy.
The battle of Hastings is between Godwinson and William.
William defeats Herold, and William is given the title 'William the Conqueror".
The first thing he does is He starts to collect taxes through a census. William was the first since Ancient Roman times to collect a census. The shiers are people who collected all the info and put it into the Doms Day book. The people nicknamed the book, The Dooms Day Book.
Henery the First sucseads his father. Henery the Second sucseads Henery the Second.
Henery the FIrst was a push-over king. He let people walk all over him and basically had no rules. WHen his grandson takes over, he wants to change everything. He thinks that the chruch should have to follow the laws, too, just like other people. His best friend, Thomas Becket, is the Archbishop of the church. He feels that what Thomas is doing is wrong. He goes over and visits Henery the Second and they get into a big fight. Then when Thomas leaves, he say I wish he would just die, and a couple of knights overheard him and went and killed Thomas praying, at the curch, on Christmas eve. King Henery II feels bad and changed his mean demenor and become more leanient. He was haunted with the killing of the best friend, Thomas Saint Becket, the rest of his life.
King John, King Henery 's son, demanded that the people pay more taxes to support is war. In 12, the people met and wanted to overthrow him. They forse him to sign the Magna Carta, which stated that John vouldn't collect any new or speacil taxes without the Great Council, he couldn't take property without paying for it, sell it, refuse, or delay justie, and agreed to let any accused to be judged by a jury is his or their own peirs.