Anglo-Saxon England involved being ruled by Vikings a bit...
we begin in the year 1000CE

Aethelred II (the Unready) 978-1016

Cnut 1016-1035

Harold I 1035-1040

Harthacnut 1040-1042

Edward the Confessor 1042-1066

Harold II 1066

Key ideas about society:

Monarch made the laws, influence increasing through the period

Community really important in maintaining law and order

Communities were small and governed by a clear hierarchy of people

Few towns (burhs) but some growing in importance with growing populations

Christian Church important, responsible for crimes which broke church law

One monarch but little centralised government, taxes collected locally

Norman Conquest 1066

William I 1066-87

William II 1087-1100

Henry I 1100-1135

Stephen 1135-1154

Norman Conquest 1066

William wants to be seen as legitimate
BUT
Imposition of Norman authority

Increasing power and responsibilities for monarch in maintaining law and order; increasingly centralised government

Hierarchy

Increasing power of Church

Disputes over throne - sons of William and then Stephen/Matilda (Maud) and Civil War

Plantagenets:

Henry II 1154-1189

Richard I (the Lionheart) 1189-1199

John (Lackland) 1199-1216

Henry III 1216-1272

Edward I 1272-1307

Edward II 1307-1327

Edward III 1327-1377

Crusades - absentee king (Richard)

Weak (sometimes young) kings/Strong kings

Even more centralised government

Continued influence of the Church - but various kings try to assert greater power over the Church e.g. Henry II; John
Church leaders often in positions of power

Magna Carta - 1215

Population growth/growth in towns

Hundred Years War with France

Black Death

Lancaster

Richard II 1377-1399

Henry IV 1399-1413

Henry V 1413-1422

Henry VI 1422-1461/1470-1471

York

Edward IV 1461-1470/1471-1483

Richard III 1483-1485

Tudor

Henry VII 1485-1509

Young king = weak king?

Peasants' Revolt

Further rebellions

Wars of the Roses...

New Tudor monarchy...