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BRITAIN 1100.

History Today,  April, 2000  by Golding, Brian

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BRIAN GOLDING LOOKS AT LIFE UNDER THE NORMAN YOKE DURING THE CONSOLIDATING REIGN OF HENRY I

ON AUGUST 2ND, 1100, William II Rufus was killed in a hunting accident in the New Forest. His body was immediately taken to Winchester Cathedral for burial. Three days later, his younger brother, Henry (who may possibly have been implicated in Rufus's death), was crowned at Westminster. The New Forest, Winchester, Westminster: all these sites have resonances in Anglo-Norman England. Though Anglo-Saxon kings had been keen huntsmen, the creation of a new landscape whose primary function ...

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