Starter quiz
- ______ was crowned as the king of England on 6th January 1066.
- 'Harold Godwinson' ✓
- William of Normandy's invasion of England began when he landed his army at...
- Hastings
- Pevensey ✓
- York
- Stamford Bridge
- Battle
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- When he became king, William ______ almost all of the Anglo-Saxon landholders with Normans.
- 'replaced' ✓
- Under Norman rule, all the land was owned by the...
- king ✓
- earls
- knights
- peasants
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- ______ was the only Anglo-Saxon cathedral not to be knocked down and rebuilt by the Normans.
- 'Westminster Abbey' ✓
- Which of these words used today derive from Anglo-Norman?
- mansion ✓
- pork ✓
- justice ✓
- swine
- sheep
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Exit quiz
- Under the reign of William the Conqueror, England and __________ developed close cultural connections.
- Normandy ✓
- Gascony
- France
- Burgundy
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- The Angevin Empire was the empire of which monarch?
- William I
- William II
- Henry I
- Henry II ✓
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- Henry II worked to restore English lands lost to...
- 'Scotland' ✓
- When Henry II landed in Ireland in October 1171, he was declared the '______ of Ireland' by the Irish kings.
- 'overlord' ✓
- Henry II struggled to maintain the Angevin Empire due to its...
- 'size' ✓
- By the end of King John's reign, the only place outside of the British Isles that remained under his control was...
- Normandy
- Gascony ✓
- Brittany
- Poitou
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Key learning points
- The Norman conquest meant that there was a strong cultural connection between England and France.
- After the Anarchy, Henry II formed the Angevin Empire when he became king.
- In 1171 Henry II invaded Ireland and became known as 'overlord of Ireland'.
- During the reign of King John, most of the continental territory of the Angevin Empire was lost.
- The loss of territories in France under King John contributed to the First Barons' War and Magna Carta.
Common misconception
Richard the Lionheart was one of the greatest English kings.
Although he was king of England and was born in England, Richard almost certainly did not consider himself English. He never learnt the language and only spent a maximum of 6 months in England during his 10 year reign; he didn't like the weather.
Keywords
Angevin empire - territories in England, Wales, Ireland and France held by Henry II and his descendants in the 12th and 13th centuries
Magna carta - a document signed in 1215 containing a series of promises that limited the monarch and guaranteed some political rights
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