RICHARD I Duke of Normandy I I I----------------------------------------I- 1st-husband I 2nd I Aethelred--Emma-- Cnut RICHARD II I I (the good) I HARTHACNUT Duke of Normandy I I -I-------------I II I I I ALFRED EDWARD I (The Confessor) I -----------------------------------------II- I I RICHARD III ROBERT Duke of Normandy I I WILLIAM I The Conquerer
1066AD =Norman records relate that Harolds badly mangled remains were burried on the shore at Hastings?
1066AD =Waltham Abbey claims two canons who followed Harold, begged to let them take the body for Christian burial, at which W. relented. They took it to Waltham Abbey. (He had been excommunicated!) He couldn�t be burried in Church ground!!! =OCT? W.T.C. did not go into London(NOTE!) but skirted it. Instead he headed for the Port of Romney, which he wrecked as revenge because they had killed the men on two of his lost ships that landed there. From there he moved on to Dover. He burnt Dover after the people surrendered. He is supposed to have paid them recompence. there 1-4 weeks. =Oct. W. marched west and encircled London via Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, to Wallingford and waited in Essex. =Nov. He then went on to Canterbury which surrendered to him. W.T.C. fell sick here and halted for I month. There is a silence for this period that is baffling to the Historians.(NOTE!)
NOTE; ALL THE SECULAR LEADERS LEFT IN ENGLAND AT THIS TIME WERE ALL VERY YOUNG. ALL AROUND 13 TO 20 YEARS OLD.
1066AD =DEC 25th. William crowned king by the side of Edwards tomb. =Gave thanks for his success at Edwards tomb. =He had Edwards remains reintered in a curious and more costly tomb of Stone.
1066AD =Eltham Palace; Manor granted to ODO of Bayeux but retained by the crown. =W.T.Q. forcebly took away from the Waltham Holy Cross Church a quantity of plate, gems, rich vestments, but he left them in possession of all their estates and revenues.
1067AD =MARCH. W. returned to Normandy.
1067AD =DEC. W. returned to England.
1070AD =JAN. William seized Chester.
1074AD =A synod was held in the Church at Westminster by Archbishop Lanfranc to examine avowedly into the qualifications and conduct of the clergy.(To get rid of them and let room for the Normans). Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, was charged with being " A most illiterate and foolish man, and unfit for the Station he held; a very idiot ,couldn�t speak French, incapable either to instruct the church, or counsel the king." His pastoral staff and ring were demanded of him by Lanfranc, in the kings name; but Wulstan, grasping his staff said in effect that he would not give it up to any but the king who gave it to him. He then put it on Edwards tomb and departed. The staff could not be removed from the tomb so Wulston was allowed to remain in office
1078AD =The proposed time of the Construction of the TOWER OF LONDON built for W., by Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, who also erected Rochester Castle. ? =Kennington Palace dates from the Norman history as a retreat for the Norman kings. The site or manor belonged to the Crown in the Saxon times. Its name Chenitune, in Domesday, signifying the �place or town of the king.�
1082AD =Bermondsey Priory was founded by Alwin Child, a citizen of London, for Cluniac monks, from the monastery of la Charitede Dieu, on the Loire, which continued to supply its priors until 1372AD. 68 in all, nine of whom were promoted, and six resigned, leaving fifty-three to die in office. =Hereward, at the bridge of Wrokesham rescued four innocent persons from Norman Executioners. =Baynards Castle, founded by William Baynard, who came in with William the Q. A Nobleman, Lord of Dunmaw. It was a large building. There was a second castle that was Baron Monfichet�s. His name was spelt also as BAINIARDUS, he held land here of the Abbot of Westminster. In 1653AD, it was called Baynard�s watering. In 1850�s Bayswater Field. =Gilbert de Monfichet founded the Castle Montfichet. He was a native of Rowen and related to the Conquror. He brought with him a great force and fought gallantly in his cause at the battle of Hastings.
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