anglo saxons and normans important dates

King Cnut invaded and conquered England

1015

King Cnut's reign *

1016-1035

Edward the Confessor's reign **

1042-1066

William I's reign **

1066-1087

William II's reign **

1087-1100

Cnut makes Godwin Earl of Wessex **

1030s

William of Normandy's father, Robert of Normandy, dies when William is 8 *

1035

King Edward marries Edith, daughter of Earl Godwin **

1045

Earl Godwin is exiled ****

1050

Earl Godwin returns from exile to England with an army ****

1051

Earl Godwin is made Earl of Wessex again ****

1051

William of Normandy's son, Robert Curtose is born **

1051

Earl Godwin dies, Harold Godwinson becomes Earl of Wessex ****

1053

Tostig Godwinson becomes Earl of Northumbria ****

1055

East Anglia given to Gyrth, South-west Midlands given to Leofwine (brothers of Harold Godwinson) **

1057

Harold Godwinson defeats Gruffudd ap Llywelyn of Wales ***

1062

Harold's embassy to Normandy ****

1064

Rising against Earl Tostig ****

October 1065

Earl Tostig is exiled ****

1st November 1065

Edward the Confessor dies****

5th January 1066

Harold Godwinson is crowned King

6th January 1066

Southern fyrd disbanded before Battle of Gate Fulford **

8th September 1066

Harold hears of Harald Hardrada and Tostig's invasion **

19th September 1066

Battle of Gate Fulford; Harold leaves London ****

20th September 1066

Battle of Stamford Bridge ****

25th September 1066

Date that William and his men landed on Pevensey beach **

28th September 1066

Harold hears that William has landed on the South Coast. **

1st October 1066

Harold leaves York **

2nd October 1066

Harold arrives back in London after battle of Stamford Bridge **

6th October 1066

Harold leaves London to go to meet William **

12th October 1066

Battle of Hastings ****

14th October 1066

Submission of the earls at Berkhamstead ****

1066

The day William was crowned as king in Westminster Abbey ****

25th December 1066

Revolt of Edwin and Morcar (Anglo-Saxon Earls) ****

1068

Murder of Robert Cumin ****

31st January 1069

Uprising in York, Edgar joins from Scotland and William defeats York rebels ****

February 1069

William in Winchester for Easter *

13th April 1066

Danish fleet invades on the East Coast **

8th September 1069

Anglo and Danish force arrives in York ****

21st September 1066

Godwinsons' land is forfeited (handed out to William's followers) **

1066

Bishop Odo and William FitzOsbern are violent and brutal as regents **

1067

Maerleswein's lands forfeited *

1068

William pays Danes to leave ****

December 1069

Year of 'Rebellions in the North' ****

1069

Harrying of the North ****

1069-1070

Morcar's Lands forfeited *

1070

Edwin's lands forfeited *

1071

Hereward the Wake and the rebellion at Ely ****

1070-1071

Ralph de Gael inherits East Anglia when his father died **

1069

Roger de Breteuil inherits Hereford (Marcher Earldom) when his father William FitzOsbern dies **

1071

Waltheof becomes Earl of Northumbria after he taking part in Northern rebellions and then being pardoned. Note: this is after the Harrying of the North **

1072

Waltheof's lands forfeited **

1076

Waltheof executed ***

May 1076

The revolt of the Norman Earls ****

1075

Stigand, Archbiship of Canterbury, replaced by Lanfranc ****

1070

Only Anglo-Saxon bishop left was Wulfstan of Worcester *

1070 onwards

Robert Curthose falls out with his brothers, William and Henry **

1077

Fight between Robert Curthose and William I ****

1079

Heavy Geld Tax levied **

1084

First drafts of the Domesday Book ****

August 1086

10% of land was royal demesne **

1086

Threat of Danish invasion means William brings thousands more troops into England ***

1085

William raids Mantes towards the end of his life **

July 1087

William I dies ****

9th September 1087

Odo made bishop of Bayeux by William of Normandy **

1049

Bishop Odo made Earl of Kent, co-regent of England ***

1067

Bishop Odo was sent to Northumberland where Odo pillaged and laid waste to the region ***

1079

Bishop Odo tried for illegal acquisition ***

1076

Bishop Odo of Bayeux is arrested and imprisoned ****

1082

William's wife, Matilda, dies **

1083

William pardons Bishop Odo on his death bed **

1087

Bishop Odo leads an attempted uprising against William Rufus ****

1088

Bishop Odo dies in Palermo, Italy **

1097