• Anglo-Saxon concept started when Anglos and Saxons combined.
• Shires - people who would go around and collect taxes
• Alfred the Great - first Anglo-Saxon king
• Edward the Confessor - last Anglo-Saxon king.
• War started when Edward the Confessor died because two people wanted throne.
• William the Duke wanted throne & Harold who was the brother in law.
• William was Edward's cousin but he was from Normandy, France.
• One of top battles of world history - Battle of Hastings.
• William the Duke won battle against Harold.
• William given nickname "William The Conqueror"
• When William took throne he wanted to get things done. First to collect a census since Roman times.
• Census was used to tax people on how much stuff they had (people, animals, things)
• Took all of info from census and put it all together into a book.
• Book was called Domesday Book, nicknamed the Doomsday Book
• When William died his son, Henry the first, replaced him.
• Henry the Second replaced  them.
• Henry the Second doesn't want to be like his father but he wants to be more like William the Conqueror. Henry II doesn't like the way the churches are run. His friend, Thomas Becket comes over to his house to talk about the churches. They both start disagreeign about things. Thomas storms out and Henry wishes him dead. The knights overheard him say that and took it as their duty to go kill him. They travel to Canterbury and stab him multiple times on Christmas Eve. Henry falls apart and feels horrible. He later becomes a saint.
• Henry II's son John succeeds him. He goes to war with a lot of people.
• John taxed people very high in England.
• People met at Runnyadme and came up with one of greatest documents in history, Magna Carta.
• 1215 - King John forced to sign Magna Carta.
• Magna Carta protected liberties of nobles and the rights of the people in England. It made the law the supreme power in England. It's original purpose was to limit the king's powers. Included concepts such as church freedom, trial by jury, freedom from taxation without cause & consent, & due process of law. If king didn't abide to Magna Carta then people would revolt and overthrow him.