The Domesday Book

He feared another Viking invasion, so he wanted
to known where he could put his soldiers.

He thought that some of his Barons owned land
that really the church or him owned.

He wanted to be able to collect more taxes.

At the time of the Domesday book, almost all English people
lived in the country side.

A farming unit was called a "manor", which was made up
of fields, crops, woods, meadows and a village.

No one manor is the same as another manor because
of the geography of the land.

A manor can also contain more then one village or
maybe even half a village.

All peasants lived on/in or worked in a manor.

Villeins

Also known as "serfs"

They had land to farm but were not allowed to
leave the Manor.

Beneath Villeins were "cottars", people that had
little or no land to farm and weren't allowed to leave
the Manor.

At Christmas 1085, William sent his men to survey
the land by asking every person/each farming unit
a couple of questions.

The problem was, most people in England didn't
understand what Williams men were asking. People
called it strange and frightening.

After all of it had been collected, and sent to Winchester
where all of it was written down and put into a book called
"the domesday book"

Women weren't mentioned a lot in the Domesday

Subtopic

Although not a lot of women were mentioned,
some higher class women were mentioned becuse
of their husbands.