The Norman Conquest (91 page)

Wulfstan, bp of Worcester (d. 1095),
107
,
269
,
281
,
305
,
320
,
340
–
1
,
383

Wulfstan, bp of Worcester and abp of York (d. 1023),
26
,
27

Wulfwold, abt of Chertsey (d. 1084),
5

Wye, river,
292
,
296

Xerxes,
168

Yaroslav the Wise, king of Russia (1019–54)
155

Yeovil (Somerset),
227

York,
12
,
121
–
3
,
127
–
8
,
141
,
146
,
161
–
5
,
172
,
219
–
21
,
223
–
4
,
226
–
9
,
233
–
4
,
236
,
247
,
253
,
270
,
314
,
340
,
375
; abbey,
340
; castles,
220
,
223
–
4
,
226
–
7
,
229
,
334
; cathedral (minster),
223
,
226
,
232
; abp of,
see
Ælfric; Cynesige; Ealdred; Thomas; Wulfstan; sheriff of,
223
,
227
,
267
;
see also
Hugh fitz Baldric

Yorkshire,
121
–
2
,
162
–
3
,
172
–
3
218
–
19
,
228
–
9
,
232
–
3
,
235
,
278
–
9
,
282
,
297
,
313
–
14
,
335

Zedekiah, biblical king,
185

Edward the Confessor at the beginning of the Bayeux Tapestry.

William of Jumièges presents his history to William the Conqueror (from a twelfth-century copy of the manuscript)

English architecture before 1066. The early eleventh-century church tower at Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, shows how decoration took precedence over the order and precision of line beginning to be used on the Continent.

The mighty castle at Arques, established during William’s minority. The surviving masonry dates from the twelfth century.

Norman architecture before 1066: the Romanesque abbey churches of Jumièges, begun c. 1040.

The Norman invasion fleet crosses the Channel. The ship with the lantern on its mast is probably William’s flagship, the
Mora
.

‘Skuldelev 3’, datable to the eleventh century, on display in the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark.

Imperial Grandeur.

The great towers begun by the Conqueror at

Colchester and London

Harrying in action: two Normans set fire to a house from which a woman and child flee.