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RBHS History Department – Year 7 Independent Learning 1

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TASK 1 – Read the ‘meanwhile elsewhere’ and highlight/circle the following:

TASK 2 – Answer the questions on
1 – Any changes made by the Normans/England in Wales the right hand side
2 – Ways in which the Welsh fought back against the Normans/English

Meanwhile Elsewhere – Medieval Wales

1 In your history lessons in Year 7, you will be studying the effects of the
2 Norman Conquest on England. This sheet will help you understand some What happened to England in 1066?
3 of the wider effects of the Norman Conquest. Wales is part of the
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4 British Isles and was also majorly affected by the events of 1066. …………………………………………
5 Wales was once a fragmented land of ancient kingdoms. …………………………………………
6 Its rulers were independent princes, bonded by the Welsh language …………………………………………
7 and laws. After 1066 the native princes found themselves pitted against Why was the Norman invasion of Wales
8 land-hungry pirates knocking at their door: the Normans. Unlike different to the invasion of England?
9 their invasion of England, the Norman invasion into Wales took …………………………………………
10 place very gradually after 1066. It wasn’t long before the new …………………………………………
11 Norman lords in England began to look at expanding their lands …………………………………………
12 westward into Wales. …………………………………………
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13 William the Conqueror himself led a military expedition across south
14 Wales to St. David’s in 1081, and is said to have founded Cardiff What did the Norman Kings build in
15 on the way. Throughout the 1080’s and 1090’s the Normans penetrated Wales?
16 areas of Wales, conquering and settling Pembroke in southern …………………………………………
17 Wales. England’s King Henry I, William’s youngest son, …………………………………………
18 encouraged large-scale Norman settlement in south Wales, building the …………………………………………
19 first royal castle at Carmarthen in 1109. The Welsh princes refused to …………………………………………
20 submit however, and took the opportunity to reclaim land from the …………………………………………
21 Normans after the death of King Henry I in 1135.
22 Llewelyn the Great, became Prince of Wales in 1194. Llewelyn and his How did Llewelyn the Great fight back
23 armies drove the English from north Wales in 1212. Not content with this, against the English Kings?
24 he reversed the trend of conquering, taking the English town of
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25 Shrewsbury in 1215. During his long but peace-less reign through to
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26 1240, Llewelyn resisted several attempts at re-invasion by
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27 English armies dispatched by the then English King, Henry III. …………………………………………
28 The really bad news for Wales happened in 1272, when following the ………………………………………..
29 death of King Henry III, his son Edward I became the new king of
30 England. Now Edward appears to have had a disliking for all Wales in
31 general, and Llewelyn ap Gruffydd in particular. Edward achieved the What was the end result of the Norman
32 conquest of Wales through three major campaigns and on a scale that he invasion for Medieval Wales?
33 knew that the Welsh could not hope to match. Edward surrounded
34 Wales with Castles and by 1284 had made Wales a Principality of …………………………………………
35 England, loyal to the English crown. In 1542 Henry VIII formally …………………………………………
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36 brought Wales into England, ending the country’s independence
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37 which it still lacks today.
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