. A short history of England and the British Empire. 4. Policy of William. William of Normandy apparentlydid not regard himself as a conqueror: he professed to believe,in his rights to the English crown as Edwards heir. It was, therefore, his avowed pur-pose to govern England asan English king; to enforceEnglish laws ; and to main-tain English results of the conquest,however, do not show anyclear traces of this policy:the coming of William andhis Norman barons initiatedcertain marked changes inEnglish government and so-ciety, some of which cameto be permanent featuresof the En
. A short history of England and the British Empire. 4. Policy of William. William of Normandy apparentlydid not regard himself as a conqueror: he professed to believe,in his rights to the English crown as Edwards heir. It was, therefore, his avowed pur-pose to govern England asan English king; to enforceEnglish laws ; and to main-tain English results of the conquest,however, do not show anyclear traces of this policy:the coming of William andhis Norman barons initiatedcertain marked changes inEnglish government and so-ciety, some of which cameto be permanent featuresof the English constitutionand of English 45. The Norman Aris-tocracy. Perhaps the mostimportant of the earlier re-sults was the destructionof the native Anglo-Saxonaristocracy. The Englishnobles fell in great numbers on the field of Hast-ings where Earl Godwins family perished, in theuprisings led by the family of Leofric two yearslater, and in various later revolts. During Williams reign the » Tuell and Hatch, No. 8 (Freeman); Gardiner, Ideal of Plan a Twelfth CenturyCastle Destruction ofthe Englisharistocracy. THE NORMAN ARISTOCRACY 53 Danes made two expeditions to the English shores,1 the chiefresults of which were the ruin of several important native chiefswho had joined the Scandinavians in the hope of dislodgingWilliam. As a rule, the Conqueror was generous to his Eng-lish opponents if they were of noble blood; usually he sparedtheir lives, though in such cases he managed to render themharmless by transporting them to Normandy. Those whom hepermitted to remain in England were deprived of their landsand wealth, and consequently lost all their power and these various ways the native Englishmen lost their naturalleaders and organized opposition was made impossible. The places of authority and power that had formerly beenheld by the English nobility King William gave to his Normanfollowers and barons. These aliens were often The Normanpermitted to liv
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