This is known as the Norman Conquest. The Normans, or 'North-men', were originally Vikings who settled in northern France in AD900. Edward 'the Confessor' was an important Anglo-Saxon king.
The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in 1282 in a skirmish with the Anglo-Norman army at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, one chronicler wrote that the whole of ...
The king's name is William I of England, but you might know him better by his later name-- William the Conqueror. [Men shouting] Worsley, voice-over: Most of us think the Norman Conquest of England ...