Norman Conquest
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the defeat (1066) of King Harold of England by William, duke of Normandy, who...or deprived of their lands. Thus a Norman aristocracy was superimposed on the English, and the new elite brought with it Norman feudal customs (see feudalism ), which...conquerors. Thus the rebellions among the Norman barons were minor and short-lived...was this tradition, as adapted by the Normans, that gave English feudalism its uniquely...