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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

The Duke of Normandy

Wrote the Doomesday Book

Brought Feudalism to England

BATTLE OF HASTINGS1066

Henry II

Great grandson of William the Conqueror

Was Married toEleanor of Aquitaine

ENGLISH COMMON LAWGrand juryTrial jury

Circuit Judge

Two Well Known Sons:Richard the Lionhearted

King John(signed the Magna Carta)

Thomas Becket

Archbishop of Canterbury

Murdered Dec. 29, 1170

Canonized in 1173Canterbury Tales, byGeoffrey ChaucerFriendship vs. Loyalty

to the Church??

Henry II

Great grandson of William the Conqueror

Was Married toEleanor of Aquitaine

ENGLISH COMMON LAWGrand juryTrial jury

Circuit Judge

King John 1199-1216

Mean to his subjects

Tried to squeeze $ out of them

Raised taxes to finance his wars ….all culminated in…(next slide)

Magna Carta

• One of the three pillars to England’s constitution

•Latin “great charter”

•The nobles forced King John to sign it

•Guaranteed the nobles certain basic political rights

•Limited the power of the king

1215

Simon de Montfort

Father of the House of Commons

Called the first directly elected parliament in Medieval Europe

PARLIAMENTGREAT COUNCIL

HOUSE OF

COMMONS

HOUSE OF

LORDS

French attempts at Beginning to establish a democratic tradition!

France-Capetian Dynasty

987-1328Development of

representative gov’t

Philip II(1180-1223)—he was, Philip Augustus

Bailiffs

Louis IX(grandson of Philip II)-1226-1270

Created a French appeals court

Philip IV(1285-1314)Adds Third Estate to

the Estates-General(Frenh Parliament)

Estates-General

National Assembly Parliament

#4. Hundred Years War“Misery of the Middle Ages”F

RANCE

ENGLAND

What were the causes of the Hundred Years War?? Pages 348-349

1. Disagreement over rights of land

2. Dispute over the succession to the French throne Charles IV(Fr.),dies childless in 1328; Capetian dynasty

ends Charles’ sister, Isabella, had a son—Edward III, king of

England Salic law—exclusion of women(6th C law maintained until

1789!) What happened from here??

1. Economic conflicts

2. Duchy of Aquitaine

MAJOR BATTLES:

AGINCOURT (1415)POITIERS (1356)

CRECY (1346)

ENGLISH LONG BOW DOMINATED THE BATTLE FIELD

TEXT MAPS, PAGE 351

JOAN OF ARC

PEASANT GIRL WHO CONVINCED CHARLES VII TO BE CROWNED

CONVINCED DAUPHIN SHE COULD LEAD THE FRENCH TO VICTORY

LEAD THE FRENCH IN A BATTLE AT FORT ORLEANS AND WON

JOAN OF ARC IS CAPTURED BY THE ENGLISH, ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT

MAY 30TH 1431 SHE IS TIED TO A STAKE AND BURNED TO DEATH AT 19 YEARS

OLD

25 YEARS LATER CHURCH RETRIED HER CASE AND

PROCLAIM HER AS INNOCENT

MAY 16TH 1920 SHE IS CANONIZED A SAINTBecame a patron saint of

France because she saved the French monarchy!!!

Which of the following was not an English victory during the Hundred Years War?

Crecy

Agincourt

Orleans

Poitiers

Normandy

A major cause of the Hundred Years’ War for the French was that:

The French nobles were unwilling to give their support to the English who claimed the throne of France

A woman had become ruler of France for the 1st time

The King of France claimed the throne of England

The economic reason of wool

Impact 100 Yrs. war

1. rise of nationalism2. representative

assembly's will develop…. Parliamentary system

3. War of the Roses—rise of the Tudor dynasty in England

4. The twin pillars of the Middle Ages---The Age of Faith & the Age of Chivalry…will die