Transcriber’s Note

Transcriber added the title and author to the originalcover, and placed the result into the Public Domain.

A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
NORMAN CONQUEST
OF
ENGLAND

BY
EDWARD A. FREEMAN, D.C.L., LL.D.

Late Regius Professor of Modern History in the
University of Oxford

Third Edition

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1908

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH
NEW YORK AND TORONTO

CONTENTS.

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	INTRODUCTION	1
II.	THE ENGLISH AND THE NORMANS	6
III.	THE EARLY DEALINGS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND NORMANS	16
IV.	THE YOUTH OF DUKE WILLIAM	30
V.	HAROLD EARL AND KING	39
VI.	THE TWO HAROLDS	55
VII.	THE COMING OF DUKE WILLIAM	64
VIII.	THE GREAT BATTLE	76
IX.	HOW DUKE WILLIAM BECAME KING	86
X.	HOW KING WILLIAM WON THE WHOLE KINGDOM	93
XI.	KING WILLIAM’S LATER WARS	108
XII.	HOW KING WILLIAM RULED THE LAND	118
XIII.	THE TWO WILLIAMS	128
XIV.	THE RESULTS OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST	134
XV.	THE LATER HISTORY	148

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