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For Edward the Confessor was indeed quite a Normanophile.


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He was the son of Emma of Normandy and, when his father was deposed of the English throne by Sweyn Forkbeard, the King of Norway, he sought refuge in Normandy, where he stayed for thirty years. When he returned to power in , he chose to surround himself with Normans, the only allies in which he had real trust. This was not to the liking of the Saxons.

But Edward was a weakened sovereign who, immediately prior to his death, promised his throne to several contenders in order to avoid conflict. His promises spurred these pretenders to take up arms upon his death, each one believing he was the only legitimate successor to the throne. Hence, when William was informed that the Anglo-Saxon Harold Godwinson had come to the throne, he convinced the Norman barons to set off with him to conquer England. William chose Picardy as his departure point for his expedition to England.

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Bad weather thwarted his plans. However, it proved to be a godsend for, in the meantime, the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada also attacked England, hence weakening the English troops. Yet, in York on the 20th of September , Harold of England won the battle against the Norwegians, hence bringing the Viking era in England to an end. Eight days later, on the 28th of September , William reached Hastings, in Sussex. The Normans rapidly built a wood and earthen castle. An exhausting trip that weakened his soldiers, hence affording the Normans a certain advantage.

The battle lasted the entire day and William came out victorious. The battle was fierce and many were lost. Four years later, in , William the Conqueror founded Battle Abbey, as a monument in memory of those lost in combat. William then decided to submit the English provinces, one after another, starting with Kent and Hampshire, where the crown jewels were stored. In just a few months, he burned down all the territories he conquered and, in December , he reached London. He took the English crown on the 25th of December in Westminster Abbey and launched the construction of a new castle, today known as the Tower of London.

He remained in England in order to repress revolts by the English who rejected his authority. To do so, he ordered for the construction of several fortified castles across the land, including Warwick Castle and Nottingham Castle.

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The Normans also built castral mounds aimed at offering safe shelter for their garrison. A few vestiges of these constructions can still be seen today in the north of England. William travelled to Normandy in March , to return to England in December the same year. Sarah Bower, The Needle in the Blood , about the bishop who commissions the Bayeux Tapestry to commemorate his brother's conquest of England, and a Saxon woman who works on the embroidery.

Elizabeth Chadwick, The Conquest , about a woman in the time of the Norman Conquest who must flee to London with her illegitimate child when her lover's wife rejoins him.

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Noel B. Holloway, What Fates Impose , about the power struggles of the last twenty years of Anglo-Saxon England and the Battle of Hastings; self-published. Steven James, Godiva and the Golden Dragon , about the events that follow Lady Godiva's naked ride through the streets of Coventry in the days before the Norman invasion. Nerys Jones, Godiva , about the Saxon Lady Godiva of legend, her husband the Earl of Mercia, and the disasters that follow when King Edward the Confessor of England lures their son into committing treason in the years before the Norman Conquest.

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Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake , about a Saxon landowner in the aftermath of the Norman invasion of ; written in an updated version of Old English. Paul Kingsnorth, Beast , about a lone man on a West Country moor who is aware that he is being tracked by a beast of some kind; sequel to The Wake. Merlin Douglas Larsen, Jackals in Iron , about a nobleman who was an enemy of William of Normandy from boyhood, but joins his war against the King of England for the purpose of vengeance.

Norah Lofts, Madselin , about a Saxon widow who marries the Norman lord who has taken over her dead husband's manor house after the Norman Conquest. Sarah Pernell, The Gift and the Promise , about a Norman knight who, to repay a favor, promises to come to the aid of a Saxon child whenever she has need of him and finds he must make good on his promise after the Battle of Hastings when she has grown to womanhood. Julian Rathbone, The Last English King , about a survivor of the Battle of Hastings who travels with a monk and tells him about the events that led to the battle.

Mike Ripley, The Legend of Hereward the Wake , about a monk who, writing a minor nobleman's family history, discovers both legend and truth about the Saxon who led the resistance to the Normans after the Conquest. Carol Townend, An Honorable Rogue , historical romance about a young Breton woman and the knight who accompanies her to England, where she is supposed to marry an English knight, in ; 2 in the Wessex Weddings series.

Carol Townend, Runaway Lady, Conquering Lord , historical romance about an aristocratic woman who, in order to protect her illegitimate son from his brutal father, offers herself to a Norman knight in return for protection; 4 in the Wessex Weddings series. Carol Townend, Her Banished Lord , historical romance about a woman who risks everything to help clear the name of a disgraced nobleman, once her childhood playmate; 5 in the Wessex Weddings series.

Lindsay Townsend, A Knight's Captive , historical romance about a Breton knight, a Saxon girl and a pilgrimage to Durham, England, in the year James Wilde, Hereward: The Bloody Crown , about the leader of a Saxon fighting force defending Constantinople from attacks from Normans and Turks; 6 and last in the Hereward series. James Aitcheson, Sworn Sword , about a Norman knight who narrowly escapes being slain in a Saxon uprising in and discovers a plot that could undermine the Conquest; 1 in the Sworn Sword series. James Aitcheson, Knights of the Hawk , about a Norman soldier who, several years after the Battle of Hastings, is part of the struggle to subdue the Saxons rebelling against Norman rule; 3 in the Sworn Sword series.

Review at The Independent. Elizabeth Chadwick, Shadows and Strongholds , a coming-of-age story about a boy in Norman England learning the arts of knighthood; prequel to Lords of the White Castle. Katherine Deauxville, Blood Red Roses , historical romance about a knight and his unwilling bride, the widow of a man hanged for treason, during the reign of William the Conqueror.

Parke Godwin, Sherwood , a retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in a realistic historical setting during the time of William the Conqueror. Tullos Hennig, Greenwode , historical fantasy which reinterprets the Robin Hood legend as a tale of a young man devoted to the Old Religion who hopes to become the lover of a young Catholic man a druid has foretold will be his enemy; 1 in the Wode Book series.

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Tullos Hennig, Shirewode , historical fantasy in which Robyn Hood, a Heathen outlaw, and his boyhood lover, a Templar assassin, have become enemies; 2 in the Wode Book series. Tullos Hennig, Winterwode , historical fantasy which imagines Robyn Hood, his sister Marion, and his lover as champions of the Old Religion; 3 in the Wode Book series. John Wright, The Healer , about two men, one a Norman, the other a Saxon, who return to England in after a sojourn in Asia; self-published.


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John Wright, Knight Haralde , about two men from a Silk Road kingdom and three Marcher lords in Wales as King William tries to bring it under his control; sequel to The Healer ; self-published. Edward Marston, The Wolves of Savernake , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 1 in the Domesday Books series.

Edward Marston, The Ravens of Blackwater , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 2 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Dragons of Archenfield , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 3 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Lions of the North , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 4 in the Domesday Books series.

Edward Marston, The Serpents of Harbledown , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 5 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Stallions of Woodstock , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 6 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Hawks of Delamere , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 7 in the Domesday Books series.

Edward Marston, The Wildcats of Exeter , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 8 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Foxes of Warwick , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 9 in the Domesday Books series. Edward Marston, The Owls of Gloucester , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 10 in the Domesday Books series.

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Edward Marston, The Elephants of Norwich , a team of King William's commissioners investigate "irregularities" uncovered during the compilation of the Domesday Book; 11 in the Domesday Books series. Elizabeth Chadwick, The Wild Hunt , an arranged marriage turns to passion in the Welsh borderlands during the reign of William Rufus; 1 in the Ravenstow series.

Elizabeth Chadwick, The Running Vixen , about two young people of noble Norman stock in the Welsh borderlands who fall in love; sequel to The Wild Hunt ; 2 in the Ravenstow series. We need not doubt the statement that English princes began to collect their customary laws in writing after the Roman example made known to them by Augustine and his successors. Somewhat later the intercourse of English princes with the Frankish court brought in a fresh accession of continental learning and continental forms, in the hands of clerks indeed, but applicable to secular affairs.

In this way the Roman materials assimilated or imitated by the Franks easily found their way into England at a second remove.


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Many, perhaps most, of the facts that have been alleged to show the persistence of Roman institutions in Britain are really of this kind. Such are for example the forms and phrases of the Latin charters or land-books that we find in the Codex Diplomaticus. A difficult question indeed is raised by these continental materials on their own ground, namely, what proportion of Germanic and Franco-Gallic usages is of Roman origin, and how far those parts that are Roman are to be ascribed to a continuous life of Roman institutions and habits in the outlying provinces of the empire, more especially in Gaul.