NOUN
- the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066)
How To Use Norman Conquest In A Sentence
- The characters in The Norman Conquests are at the beck and call of the bedbound mother upstairs. Life of Riley
- After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
- The English default position is that the Norman conquest was a national tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet Angles and Saxons were settlers from the continent, and for 250 years before the Norman Conquest Britain and Ireland were subject to more invasion and settlement from Scandinavia.
- Others such as psalteries or dulcimers (O.E. sealm-glig) may have been in use, although there is only some evidence for these prior to the Norman Conquest.
- Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest.
- After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
- After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
- Kidwelly was established on the estuary of the river Gwendraeth in 1106 by Roger, bishop of Salisbury, the justiciar of England, within a short time of the Norman conquest, to defend the road to west Wales.
- Demetia is the district now called Pembrokeshire, where a colony of Normans established themselves after the Norman Conquest. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800