NOUN
- the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066)
How To Use Norman Conquest In A Sentence
- Their family can trace its origins back to the Norman Conquest.
- There was little alteration in the design of the silver penny in the two centuries following the Norman Conquest.
- 'Norman Conquest,' Froude's 'Armada,' or Napier's 'Peninsular War.' The Book-Hunter at Home
- After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
- The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
- Motte and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
- The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
- Although there were some similarities with earlier Anglo-Saxon practice, it is difficult to deny that the tenurial revolution which followed the Norman Conquest witnessed the introduction of a new system of military obligation.
- From the Regia Anglorum website: The excavations of the seventh century settlements at Cowdery's Down and Charlton, both in Hampshire, uncovered evidence of 'cruck' building, a technique previously not thought to have been used until after the Norman Conquest. Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture
- It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
