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Once he got control of Britain he showed his power by building the Tower of London to control the unruly Londoners and to reinforce himself as the new ruler of Britain.

The previous land owners lost their land to these Young Viking Soldiers and they built many castles throughout Britain, among them being Warwick and Windsor that still stand today. When he died in 1087 around 100 major castles were in Britain.

The other good thing about William 1 was that he sent many of his surveyors across Britain to ascertain the existing and potential value of his Kingdom, and when they reported back to him, the information was put into a massive Domesday Book.

William 1 had descendants who expanded the Norman Empire further into parts of Northern France and they ruled across the English Channel for hundreds of years.

One of his descendants was Henry II who is infamous for ordering the murder of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral.

After Henry II, King John was weak and appointed as a figurehead King, more of a care-taker of the English administration run by individual Barons.

This is of course when the world’s first Constitution – The Magna Carta – was signed in Runnymede by the weak King John, giving rights to the Barons.

Continental wars continued with Britain making it poor and thus losing most of its lands on the continent except for Gascony (Bordeaux).

From 1370 to 1413 many revolutions took place and ultimately the House of Lancaster got the throne, but Henry V’s reign was quite short and colourful from (1413 to 1422).

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