Study Unit 1: Medieval Realms
Lesson
M1: Earl Godwin, Earl of Wessex
Edward
the Confessor, the son of Ethelred
the Unready, the king of England (978-1016), was born in about
1003. Edward's father, Ethelred, was an Anglo-Saxon,
but his mother, Emma,
was a Norman.
Edward spent the first part of his life in Normandy.
When Edward became king in 1042, the most powerful Anglo-Saxon
in England was Earl
Godwin of Wessex.
Activity 1: Print out Chart
MR1. Read about the Normans
and the Anglo-Saxons
and fill in the details on the chart.
Activity
2: Print out Chart
MR2.
(a) Read Edward
the Confessor and fill in the missing names on the chart.
(b) Read Earl
Godwin and fill in the missing names on the chart.
Activity 3: Read Harold
in Normandy and then answer the following questions:
(a) Why, according to the Bayeux
Tapestry (S1), did Harold
Godwinson visit William
of Normandy in 1064?
(b) Why was William's daughter, Aelfgyve, asked to marry Harold
Godwinsonin 1064?
(c) On the right hand side of S1 a priest is talking to William's
daughter Aelfgyve. What do you think these two people are saying to
each other?
(d) Read about the authors of S2 and S3. Give reasons why William
of Poitiers and William
of Jumieges might have said good things about William
of Normandy.
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