1. Introduction:

     In the previous lecture we have gone through a short overview of Britain’s original inhabitants and the number of people who conquered and controlled the British Isles; mainly the Romans, the Anglo Saxons, and the Vikings. We have also discussed the coming of different versions of Christianity, how the ruling system was working and how they choose the next king. The Witan, as we said in the previous lecture, are the ones who would choose who is going to rule after the death of the King. As a consequence, after the death of Ethelred, the Saxon king, The Danish king Canute took the throne because the Witan believed that having him as a king is better than the anarchy that would burst without a king. One may ask, how did the Duke of Normandy finish as the King of England? And how did this conquest affect the British and European History?