This year has usually been taken to mark the end of the Middle Ages. The Wars of the Roses lasted fron 1450-1485. Many nobles were killed, ordinary people knew and cared little about it. Government & Society. Language & Culture. Society was still based upon rank. At the top were dukes, earls & other lords. Below these were knights (most were not heavily armed fighters on horses, but ,,gentlemen farmers" or ,,landed gentry") who had increased their landholdings & improved farming methods. This class had grown in numbers. Edward I had ordered that all those with income of L20 a year must be made knights, so even some yeomen farmers became part of the ,,landed gentry", while many ,,esquires" who had served knights, now became knights themselves. Next to the gentlemen were ordinary freemen of the towns. By the end of the Middle Ages it was possible for a serf to become a freeman if he worked for 7 years in a town craft guild
Henri I Beauclerc 12C Stephen 12C The Bayeux Tapestry Is 70 m of embroidered linen, describes how William the Conqueror invaded England In annotated in latin, made by either Queen Matilda of ordered by Bishop of Bayeux, William´s brother The most important pictural image of 11 C, priceless value The Domesday Book Historical record, based on the great survey of England which was drwan up on the orders of King William I Describes landholdings, resources of late 11 C Was written in latin, consisted of two books- Great Domesday, Little Domesday The House of Anjou Henry II 12 C Richard I Lionheart 12 C John I 12-13 C Henry III 13 C Edward I 13-14 C Edward II 14 C Edward III 14 C Richard II 14 C House of Lancaster House of York Henry IV 14-15 C Edward IV 15C Henry V 15 C Edward V 15 C Henry VI 15 C Edward VI 15 C Henry II and Thomas a Becket
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