Homework.....

I've got this homework about the battle of Hastings to do and I dont know owt about it!!!! :'(

 

Try this site

http://www.battle1066.com/

 

or this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

 

All i know is that Harold shouldnt have looked up in 1066 cos that William was a reyt fooker. But if you need more info</p>

check this out.. http://www.battle1066.com/</p>

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Hope this helps.. </p>

 

or this

The battle of hastings was a gret big feyt held in the Town of Kronenburg in 1664.
It was a battle between the Inca's & the Decepticons.
The Inca's won 4-2 on penalties.

No animals were harmed in the making of this post.

Apart from the Dalmation I'm strangling to death under my desk.

 

My concise memory:</p>

1066, king harold in north england fighting scots (i think), william of normandy thinks ha ha I'll have a go at him now. Easy peasy landing in kent. Harold marches army back down south, all cream crackered, fight breaks out near hastings (' Fight, fight , fight') arrow in harolds eye - caput. William - yeah now I am king.</p>

Bayeux tapestry is a pictoral piece dipicting the Norman conquest.</p>

 

Another couple of sites for you

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/battles/hastings.htm
http://www.battle-of-hastings-1066.org.uk/

 

factually incorrect...

... they had replays in those days.

 

breaks out at a place called 'battle' if i remember correctly. That's convenient !!!

 

Have you got many ASBOS ? nt

 

another site...

with good pictures and explanations of Anglo-Saxon military
organisation.

www.regia.org

 

fighting the Vikings at Stamford Bridge wasn't he?</p>

William was called William the Barsteward before he conquered England, do anything to get a new name he would!</p>

Normans were descended from the Vikings by the way (norsemen).</p>

 

Yes.

The brown ASBOS is awful - it gets on your lungs & that.
The blue stuff isn't nice either.
I need to get a claim in.

I'd love to re-write history.
In my book - World War II would be fought between the Wu Tang Clan & the Smurfs.

 

Harold was fighting the Vikings at Stamford Bridge (so a bit of early football violence!)


edit - I should read the other posts first!

 

No it wasnt the Scots! I remember from meany moons ago I think.. Wasnt it harald Hardrada and Tostig he was fighting up in the north and had to march his men all the way back to fight William who claimed he had been promised the throne of England?

 

Oh, and that was the start of the hereditary monarchy.

They had voted for kings before William.Well, a few people got to vote, anyway.

 

RE: Oh, and that was the start of the hereditary monarchy.

Erm thats not right mate!Sorry.

 

Well, enlighten me then! nt

 

RE: Oh, and that was the start of the hereditary monarchy.

To say they were voted for is very misleading. The barons who contollled great parts of the country may have giving implicit or explicit backing to one of their number taking the role of King. However it was often more the case of who was most powerful at the time the king was killed/died or who killed the king. The Crown was often promised by the king to a successor rather than their being a 'vote'. This passing had often been hereditary from King to son before the Norman conquest.
You are right however that the Norman conquest gave the king much more centralised control and made the hereditary passing of the Crown much more frequesnt and easier as the Crown had greater control with a more centralised army.
So you are correct to an extent matey. But to suggest prior to the normans there was some kind of democracy amongst a few perhaps akin to the Roman democracy is rather misleading to tell the young un.
Is that a decent enough explanation fo thi?

 

I never suggested any type of a democracy, hence the use of

'Well, a few people got to vote, anyway'.