Middle English History

1002

King Æthelred the Unready marries a wife from Normandy (Emma)

1042

Edward, Æthelred's son, is King of England

1066

• Edward the Confessor dies childess

• Harold, eldest son of the Earl of Wessex, was elected king

• William, Duke of Normandy, in close family relation to the late Edward challenges Harold

Events of 1066

• January: Edward the Confessor dies

• Harold Godwinson becomes king

• September: Harald of Norway attacks

• October: William of Normandy attacks

• William becomes KIng of England

1199

John Lackland (or Softsword?) becomes king

1200

marriage with Isabel of Angoulêm

1204

Loss of Normandy

1337-1453

Hundred Years War

1362

Parliament opened in English for the first time

1476

Introduction of the Printing Press: William Caxton