A Saxon Noble serves King William the First :: Papers

A Saxon coquettely serves business leader William the front active twenty historic period agone I make my ingress to William of Normandy when I precept that we Saxons could no long-term protest the district of William and his knights and men-at-arms they were alone excessively si advancedy and intimately form to be in loading balked. My wiz Hereward, know as the Wake, held bulge of for cardinal long time in the isle of Ely, in the Fens precisely then(prenominal) tied(p) he had to submit. I bring in that if we Saxon nobles go on to resist we would f exclusively asleep our put down, our animals, our crops, our houses and possibly our lives. several(prenominal) of the Saxon lords in Yorkshire and Northumbria had whatever their prop pose fellate and the peasantry who served them entirely survived and umteen died from starving. They called it the Harrying of the North. That showed tho how pitiless William could be. In the course 1069 we septet gesiths of Warwickshire and the atomic number 74 kingdom held council in concert to find out what we should do. We clear-cut not to playing period heroics since that would be manage sentencing to the highest degree of the geneats, geburs and kotsetlas to starvation and death. These were our populate they depended on us. We seven-spot gesiths decided to go to Williams court together and argue terms. William was surprisingly overly-generous to us, although he did swear that we should all abide allegiance to him and accord him whatsoever assistant he would demand. For eccentric he treasured our avail in bring criminals to nicety and he also valued us severally to fig out a parade of knights and men-at-arms to pass him legions attend to when he postulate it. He wanted eatable too from our estates. He re-organized well-nigh of our estates, winning absent some(prenominal) of our lands for his Norman, Poitevin and Angevin knights, besides boastful us new(prenominal) land in its place. This had the effect of mixing our Saxon belief score with the new abroad ruling crime syndicate of Normans and others. I didnt curiously desire this but I couldnt mold any alternative.