Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Anglo Saxon Society - The King And The Earls
- The Power Of The King
- Law making - Only the
king could make new laws
and everyone had to
obey.
- Money - the king conrolled
the minting and the
ditribtion for coins
- Taxation - the king decided
when a tax was paid and how
it should be.
- Religion - the king was
chosen by God to rule
- Fyrd - the king could
raise the fyrd army and
fleet
- landownership - the king
could grant land and take
it away
- The king ruled over england, with all
its resources at his command
- The king was the most powerful
person , no one could tell him what
to do
- The king granted out
some power to the
earls.
- The Winan
- The Witan was the
council that advised the
king
- The king dicided what the
Witan should advise him on
- the king decides
who was on the
Witan
- they king didnt have to
follow the witans advise
- The Earls
- The earls were the
most important
people in the country
after the king
- governed large
area of england
on the kings
behalf
- they were granted some
of the kings power
- Collect taxes - the earls
collected for the
earldoms and kept third
of the tax
- overseeing laws
and deciding
punishment
- military power - earls
were the kings
'generals', raising the
army
- Large ealrdoms
meant earls
could become
very powerful
- Edward the confessor (1003 - 1066)
- advantages
- As a religious leader people believed
that God was guilding him
- he was respected as a wise
lawmaker
- he was married to Edith, daughter
of the rich and powerful ealr of
godwin
- Disadvantages
- he had been exiled in normandy for most of his
life and had few english supporters
- he had no children
to success him
- he struggled to keep
control of earl
Godwin