(B) Early Middle Ages – Build your Monarchy

(B) Early Middle Ages 1154-1189 Henry II

Henry II and his very bossy wife

Henry II and his wife reigned over a huge area of England and France, which stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees. Eleanor of Aquitaine Henry’s wife held a huge amount of land in Aquitaine, he inherited Anjou in France from his dad ‘Geoffrey the handsome’ and England from his mother. His wife was older than him and had been married to the King of France (Louis VII) but it seems after one meeting with the…

(B) Early Middle Ages 1272-1307 Edward I

Edward I and the Stone of Scone (or is it?)

Edward was born at Westminster and known as ‘Longshanks’ becasue he was so tall.He had a wife Eleanor of Castile and was actually at war with her by his side when he found out he would be King. Edward I managed to claim Wales and named his son the first ‘Prince of Wales’. A title that the current Prince Charles holds. This was the first time Wales was not independent. Edward also tried to claim…

(B) Early Middle Ages 1189-1199 Richard I

Richard I

Richard I was a true ‘warrior’ King who had his own army by the time he was 16. He spent the whole time fighting and hardly any time in England and didn’t speak much English. Richard fought with his father Henry II which made Henry very sad but he still wanted Richard to be King when he died. Even though he was a great warrior he died of a wound from a single arrow. He…

(B) Early Middle Ages 1327-1377 Edward III

The worst time in history to be alive? Edward III

The Black Death in 1348 killed between one third and half of the London population. The Plague came by ship on the Ring a ring a rosesA pocket full of posesAttishoo

(B) Early Middle Ages * Legislation of History 1199-1216 John

Magna Carta

This was a ‘Great Charter’ that was signed (actually it was sealed as most Kings couldn’t write) by King John. He was forced to agree to it by the Barons to stop him abusing his power as King and take unfair taxes. It included lots of rules to give people rights to be treated fairly and the right to a fair trial. It was written on velum. There are four surviving copies of the Magna…

(B) Early Middle Ages * Legislation of History 1216-1272 Henry III

Charter of the Forest

Henry III sealed the Charter of the Forest. This gave back some of the rights of the people over the forest. William I had made 22 ‘Royal Forests’ where only Royalty or guests could hunt and poor people were not allowed to put up fences (which meant keeping animals in was very difficult!) By agreeing the poor people could do more things in the forest he made it much fairer.