HI101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: English Nationalism, Hugh Capet, Carolingian Dynasty
Document Summary
The norman conquest and the capetian jigsaw: building france and remaking england. Carolingian states: weak positions an equal to dukes good terms with some of them dies in 996, Philip expanded a bit: provosts carry out royal instructions, witness to charters, families of feudal lords, using these people shows that philip has the power to control these people. Villeneuves new cities brand new towns that come up in this time king makes personal connections to these towns. 1013 invasion swein and canute father and son, a number of countrymen surrender, Swein dies and everything kinda falls apart, canute goes home to get the throne back. North - exerting control over the area, england is promised to not be bothered by. Scandinavian invasion anymore: church loved him, built more churches, refilled their treasury etc. Has more than one marriages married a woman named aelfgifu in order to gain an alliances, also married.
