Timeline

This blog (which looks only at law in England UK) starts more or less at the time of the Conquest, and moves forward slowly in time.  With a few jumps back and forward from time to time.

I have now worked my way through the Norman period (although I will refer back to it from time to time and may revisit) and am now looking at the time of the Angevin Kings.

However I have added the dates of later monarchs, and further dates will be added when these periods are covered in the blog. The dates not covered yet by the blog are showed in grey.

The Normans

• 1066 – William the Conquerer conquers England
• 1086 – The Domesday survey is carried out
• 1087 – William I dies, William II (Rufus) ascends the throne
• 1097-99 – Westminster Hall built
• 1100 – William Rufus dies of an arrow in the New Forest.  Henry I is crowned King.
• 1120 – Henry’s only legitimate son William is drowned in the sinking of the White Ship
• 1135 – King Henry dies.  Stephen I claims the throne.  Civil war ensues.

The Angevins

• 1154 – Henry II becomes king
• 1164 – The Constitutions of Clarendon
• 1166 – The Cartae Baronum survey
• 1166 – The first general Eyre – Geoffrey de Mandeville and Sir Richard de Lucy appointed as justices to tour the country
• 1170 – The murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral
• 1173-74 The Great Revolt – by Henry’s sons and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine
• 1189 – Richard I becomes king
• 1199 – John becomes king

The Plantagenets

• 1216 – Henry III becomes king
• 1272 – Edward I becomes king
• 1307 – Edward II becomes king
• 1327 – Edward III becomes king
• 1377 – Richard II becomes king

The Lancastrians

• 1399 – Henry IV becomes king
• 1413 – Henry V becomes king
• 1422 – Henry VI becomes king

The Yorkists

• 1461 – Edward IV becomes king
• 1470-71 – Henry VI restored for a year
• 1483 – Richard III becomes king

The  Tudors