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15 Cards in this Set
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Hastings |
Battle in 1066 in which William, Duke of normandy, defeated the Danish king of England |
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William l |
King of England, who, as duke of normandy, invaded england, defeated the Danish king, and assumed the crown; known as William the conqueror |
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Norman conquest |
Invasion and conquest of England in 1066 by william, Duke of normandy, and his army of Norman nobles |
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Henry ll |
King of England who, through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, held in vassalage a large portion of the French kingdom |
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Shire |
Administrative unit in England equivalent to a country, represented to the king by the sheriff |
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Exchequer |
English royal treasury, so-called for the checked cloth covering a table on which accounts are calculated |
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John l |
King of England who lost most of his territory in France and was forced my nobles to sign the Magna Carta in 1215; known as John Lackland |
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Magna Carta |
A document confining the English king to his traditional rights and obligations, signed by King John on 1215 |
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Parliament |
The representative assembly of England |
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Eleanor |
Queen of France and later queen of England, who inherited the province of Aquitaine in south western France |
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Annulment |
Invalidation of a marriage as if it had never existed |
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Holy roman empire |
Name first used for the old eastern franking empire from the 12th century on |
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Frederick l |
Emperor of the holy roman empire known as barbarossa ("red beard") |
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Regalia |
Instruments and symbols of either ecclesiastical or secular authority |
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Frederick ll |
Emperor of the holy roman empire and ruler of Sicily and southern Italy who engaged in a long war against the papacy |
