OCR GCSE History B The Norman Conquest 1065 to 1087 overview quiz quiz

The king's standing army of trained household warriors

A council of nobles and churchmen who advised the king

A type of land tax collected from the people each year

A royal castle built to defend the king from his enemies

The House of Normandy

The House of Wessex kings

The House of Godwin

The House of Hardrada

He left twin sons who each claimed the crown of England

He named no successor at all and had no living relatives

The Witan had been abolished, so no one could choose a king

He died childless, and three men claimed the throne

Harold destroyed Harald Hardrada's Norwegian invasion

William of Normandy defeated and killed Harold Godwinson

A large Danish army captured the city of York from the English

Edgar the Aetheling was crowned king of England by the Witan

A much larger army that heavily outnumbered the English

Feigned retreats that broke the English shield wall

A surprise volley of gunfire from cannon and handguns

Harold's complete absence from the battlefield that day

Large and elaborate stone palaces decorated for the comfort of the king

Underground forts dug deep beneath the ground to hide away the Norman soldiers

Motte and bailey designs of a wooden keep on an earth mound with a fenced yard

Converted churches that had their towers turned into strongholds and lookouts

A grand Norman festival held to celebrate William's coronation

A detailed tax survey of all the land and resources of the north

A sweeping Church reform that reorganised the northern dioceses

William's systematic devastation of the north to crush rebellion

Loyalty and knight service

A tenth of his income paid in Church tithes

A fixed share of his estate's annual harvest

Nothing at all, since the land was given freely

Nothing at all; he completely replaced every part of it

The shires, sheriffs and geld tax

Only the Witan, which kept on advising him as before

The fyrd, which he kept on as the main army of the realm

Odo of Bayeux

Edgar the Aetheling

Lanfranc

Hereward the Wake

A book setting out all the new laws of Norman England

A Norman prayer book used in the reformed English Church

A written record of all the battles of the Norman Conquest

A vast survey of land, value and resources across England

To assess and raise tax and confirm landholding

To plan where new Norman cathedrals would be built

To keep a yearly record of the weather across England

To let the Witan choose who would be the next king