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  • The Normans Conquest (Season 1, Episode 2)
  • TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, History

The Normans

Conquest (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, History
William the Conqueror's Westminster coronation accidentally turned into bloodshed, prophetic of the grim way Norman rule was imposed on the reluctant Anglo-Saxon subjects. Any resistance was bloodily suppressed, there even were severer ...See moreWilliam the Conqueror's Westminster coronation accidentally turned into bloodshed, prophetic of the grim way Norman rule was imposed on the reluctant Anglo-Saxon subjects. Any resistance was bloodily suppressed, there even were severer sentences for crimes against a Norman. The English language itself was largely gallicised, adding a French vocabulary especially in spheres of interest to the new nobility, which took over nearly all the feudal lands. The rather efficient taxation was extended and reorganized, as testified by the Doomesday Book. A French invasion of his Norman duchy was stooped in blood. William's successors would extend the conquest over the British Isles. St. Margareth, an Anglo-Saxon royal princess, helped 'modernise' the Scottish dynasty on Norman model but keep the northern real independent. Marcher lords, virtual independent Anglo-Norman vassals, moved into Wales, were some Celtic principalities remained separate for centuries. The FitzGeralds made the first wave of incursions into internally divided Ireland, Henry II made the isle's colonization a royal project extending beyond the Middle Ages. Written by KGF Vissers See less
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Director
Fatima Salaria
Writer
Robert Bartlett (written by) (as Professor Robert Bartlett)
Producer
Fatima Salaria
Cinematographers
Lawrence Gardner | Neil Harvey
Editor
Andrea Carnevali
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Updated Aug 11, 2010
Release date
Aug 11, 2010 (United Kingdom)

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