1042-65 Reign of Edward the Confessor

1066 Battle of Hastings

Harold Godwineson Harold Hardrada

William of Normandy

1087 Death of William the Conqueror. WilliamII Rufus gets England, Robert gets Normandy

1100 William Rufus killed in New Forest

1100-35 Reign of Henry I

Corps of royal justices

Employment of sheriffs

Treasurer and two chamberlains of theexchequer at Winchester

Matilda, wife of Geoffrey of Anjou

Stephen of Blois (r. 1135-54)

Henry Plantagenet

Capetians

Ile-de-France

Philip I (r. 1060-1108)

1108-37 Reign of Louis the Fat

1125 Louis places Suger, Abbot of St Denis(d. 1151) in charge of civil administration

1137 Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine tofuture Louis VII

1137-80 Reign of Louis VII

1137-80 Reign of Louis VII

1152 Annulment of marriage of Louis VII andEleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor marriesHenry Plantagenet

1165 Louis VII and Adèle of Blois have a son,Philip (II Augustus)

Henry II (r. 1154-89)

Angevin Empire (Anjou)

Taking control of nobility

Increasing state income - scutage

Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164:

Bishops to do homage for secularlands before consecration

No appeals to pope by clergy withoutroyal permission

Clerics accused of criminal offenses tobe degraded by ecclesiastical court,punished by royal court

Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury,1162-70)

“double jeopardy”

1160s Henry institutes procedure to bringcases to court even if the injured partyis unable to

1179 Henry expands use of juries

common law

Henry’s court as intellectual centre

1189 Henry dies after defeated by Richard andPhilip II Augustus

1189-99 Reign of Richard I Lionheart

1199-1216 Reign of King John