1. Birth of Centralized Government in England: William the Conqueror and Henry II

2. Terms To Know Nobility Kingdom of Wessex Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwinson
Barons
William the Conqueror
Harald Hardrada of Norway
Battle of Hastings
Motte-And-Bailey Castle
Domesday Book
Henry II
Stephen
Common Law
stāre decisīs
Scutage
Precedent
Bureaucracy
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Richard I
John Lackland
Magna Carta
Runnymede

3. England, c. 650 CE
England, 1066 CE and beyond

4. Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry

5. Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry

6. Last Anglo-Saxon Kings Of England Earl Godwin Son Daughter Edith
Ethelred the Unready
(king, died 1016)
Earl Godwin
Son
Daughter
Edward the Confessor
(king, )
Edith
Harold Godwinson
(king, 1066)

7. Anglo-Norman Kings Of England William the Conqueror (king, 1066-1087)
Robert Curthose
William II Rufus
(king, )
Henry I
(king, )
Adela
Geoffrey
Count of Anjou
Matilda
Stephen
(king, )
Henry II
(king, )
Henry
Richard I
(king , )
Geoffrey
John
(king, )

10. Maiden Bower, Yorkshire, built about 1071 (aerial view)

11. Arundel Castle, with original
Motte (11th Century) and later stone additions