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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Its possessions were numerous, for, at the period of the Norman survey, no fewer than nineteen manors were annexed to … it fell under the power of the Romans, who, achieving the conquest of this portion of the island, under Vespasian, made … not taken the vows; by which marriage the royal Saxon and Norman lines were united; and on the birth of a son, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… held, is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where Henry I was married …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the wall on the west of the covered passage is a supposed Norman pilaster, diapered with a horse-shoe pattern, said by … V.C.H. Hants, i, 527 et seq. Dean Kitchin in his map of Norman Winchester marks the Staple House on a more northerly …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… during the century and a half which followed the Conquest. That changes in its extent took place we know; but …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Whether the gild merchant existed before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a … it is thus necessary to clear away the theory that the pre-Conquest gild merchant was the centre round which the borough … Charters [Winton Corp. Doc.], Drawer 1, no. 2). The pre-Conquest fellowship of 'cnihts' had no discernible connexion …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Athelwold's building was short. In 1079 Walkelin the first Norman bishop began the great church which still remains in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the Conquest or that any part of it occupies the site of … the wall about the castle. From existing remains of the Norman period these works seem to have included the building … the substitution of new towers in place apparently of the Norman towers at the south-west corners of both the middle …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had granted Windsor with 20 … Castle, which was held for the king by Fawkes de Breaut, a Norman adventurer, and one of the chief of John's evil …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the county of Gloucester. The church has a fine Norman doorway and an embattled tower; the nave is covered … In the church are some arches and a doorway of Norman architecture; the rood-loft still remains, with a …