Norman Conquest
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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NORMAN CONQUEST period in English history...deprived of their lands. Thus a Norman aristocracy was superimposed...new elite brought with it Norman feudal customs (see feudalism...Thus the rebellions among the Norman barons were minor and short...tradition, as adapted by the Normans, that gave English feudalism...