How did William 1 get good control over England?
He is better known as William the Conqueror and he became King of England after defeating Harold Godwinson (Harold II) at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. As for how he got “good control” over England. . .see below (feudal system). ———————– Following text from http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MA/NORMANS.HTM Once free from monarchical intrusion, the Norman dukes began to solidify an administrative system over their territories. This system became the model for subsequent medieval government: the feudal system. The Normans faced sporadic resistance from nobility within their domains. To counter this nobility, the Norman lords made clergy, who were largely drawn from the nobility, as their vassals since the monastic and church lands were on lands owned by the duke. All the knights resident on church and monastic lands the dukes forced into military loyalty. They used this core of vassals and knights to overcome the nobility which were forced to enter into feudal obligations to the du
No, William only gradually assumed tighter control over England, and rebellions continued to break out on the borders for a long while. The best known of these was by Hereward the Wake, possibly a son of Leofric of Coventry and Lady Godgifu (Godiva) who held out in the fens of East Anglia for a long while before disappearing (probably dying). It was for this reason that William had the great Norman castles built eg Cardiff, Wales, Pevensey in Sussex and Portchester in Hampshire Warwick, Nottingham, York , Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntingdon. This ensured that all areas of England would have permanent fortifications to assist against uprisings. William’s methods of control included the castles, but also horrific retaliation for any rebellion. He would lay waste whole areas to such an extent that some areas took a generation to recover. This effectively cowed much of the population. To make sure that they stayed that way, he instituted a pyramidal form of rule, with himself at the top. Bel
