1. Today’s Learning Muscle
Year 9 GCSE History
Lesson February, February, 2019
Keeping Control
Learning Gain: All learners will explore William’s actions to prevent resistance .
Today we will:
Today’s Learning Muscle
Identify changes to landownership laws
Explain how the changes impacted people in England
Consider the consequences of the changes to landownership laws.

2. What groups of people were living in England after 1066?
Anglo-Saxons, Normans, & Vikings

3. Write down anything in GREEN.
Saxons had been the ruling class in England for hundreds of years.
Earls wanted to maintain their powerful status.
Vikings lived in the North of England – in an area called the Danelaw.
Full Viking invasion was a constant threat.
Normans invaded England in 1066
Norman knights wanted land as a reward from William for their military service.

4. Group Task
Using the information provided, make some conclusions about changes in land ownership in England in the years
p. 60

5. Write down anything in GREEN.
Landholding Under the Normans
The King owned all the land, regardless of old agreements.
People could be allowed “tenure” of the land – they would be the landholder for an agreed upon area.
Anglo-Saxon landholders had to pay money to keep using the land they owned before 1066.
If a landholder died without an heir, the land went back to the king.
If an heir did inherit land, they had to pay a tax to the king.
Anyone who acted against the king could be forced to forfeit their land.

6. Create a visual display of the landownership laws.
Multi-structural
Describe how King William would have benefitted from changes to landownership.
Relational
Why might the landownership laws have caused conflict?
Extended - Abstract

7. Plenary
With a partner, write a script of an argument between a Norman vassal & an Anglo-Saxon earl about landownership in the years following 1066.