Medieval Kingdoms pgs329-334

 

  • High Middle Ages
  • Growing Monarchies

 

Kings

  • Increase land
  • War and marriage alliances
  • Extend power
    • Growth of cities
    • Revival of trade
    • Money economy

 

Important People

      • William of Normandy
      • King Harold
      • Normans
      • Lords and vassals
      • Henry II
      • Thomas a Becket
      • King John
      • Edward I
      • Two knights and two burgesses
      • Hugh Capet
      • King Philip II Augustus
      • Philip IV the Fair
      • Otto I, Saxon king of Germany and of Romans
      • Hohensaufens
        • Frederick I
        • Frederick II
      • Asiatic nomads
        • Huns
        • Bulgars
        • Avars
        • Magyars
      • Cyril and Methodius
      • Swedish Vikings
      • Vladimir, Rus ruler
      • Boyars, class of noble landowners
      • Alexander Nevsky, prince of Novgorod

 

Important Events

 

  • Battle of Hastings
  • Christmas crowning in London
  • Creation of a new “Roman Empire” by Otto I
  • Pope defeats Frederick I
  • German missionaries introduce Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox
  • Mongol invasion

 

Important Places

 

  • England
  • Runnymeade
  • House of Lords
  • House of Commons
  • Carologinian Empire
  • Ile- de- France
  • Kiev

 

Key Ideas

  • Oath of loyalty
  • Fiefs
  • Royal courts
  • Common law
  • Magna Carta
  • English Parliament
  • Great Council
  • Capetian dynasty
  • Three branches of government
    • Council for advice
    • Chamber of accounts for finances
    • Parlement
  • Royal Bureaucracy
  • Three estates
    • Clergy
    • Nobles
    • Townspeople
  • Cyrillic alphabet
    • Bible translations
  • Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox

 

 

BBR    Murder in the Cathedral

Pg 330

 

  • Controversy
  • Henry II
  • Thomas a Becket
    • Martyr
    • Top of head cut off
    • Christmas time

 

BBR A Muslim’s Description of the Rus

      • Ibn Fadlan
      • Rus folk
        • Filthy
          • Wash faces in same bowl