1. PATTERNS OF LAND OWNERSHIP, DUTIES AND STATUS 1066-86

2. Boroughs: A self-governing town (Anglo-Saxon origin)
Enfeoffment: Land gifted in exchange for a pledge of service
Hidage: Medieval unit of area
Marcher lands: Lands bordering the hostile Scottish and Welsh frontiers
Palatines: Shires with independent powers of taxation and the raising of armies – Lancashire, Cheshire and Durham
Shires: Province within England with its own government (Anglo-Saxon origin)
Sub-tenants: Smaller scale tenants who rented their land though oaths of fealty to tenants-in-chief e.g. knights
Suzreignty: The overlordship of land and its vassals
Tenant-in-chief: Large scale tenants who made their oath of fealty direct to the king e.g. nobility
Tenure: The holding of land
Vassal: One who has sworn an oath of fealty to an individual.

3. ENGLAND 1066-86 ROYAL DOMAIN EDGAR THE AETHLING THE ROYAL COUNCILLORS
RISING
ENGLAND
FALLING
ROYAL DOMAIN
THE ROYAL COUNCILLORS
NORMAN LORDS
NORMAN CLERGY
ESP. THE
‘BEC SCHOOL’
EDGAR THE AETHLING
EARLS
THEGNS
BRETON LORDS
ENGLISH CLERGY

4. WHERE DID THE ENGLISH ELITE GO?
EXILE...

5. POVERTY...

6. The feudal village

8. CHEPSTOW CASTLE, SEAT OF THE LORDS OF STRIGUIL

9. STOKESAY CASTLE, A KNIGHT’S MANOR