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A concise narrative and analysis of how a Norman duke claimed and ultimately seized the English crown, explaining earlier ties between the two peoples, the duke's rise and rivalry with competing claimants, the invasion and decisive battle, and the military and administrative measures by which he consolidated control. The work combines chronological storytelling with discussion of legal claims, land redistribution, governance, subsequent campaigns, and the longer-term social and institutional changes that followed the conquest.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Text mostly refers to “Edward” but has three occurrences of “Eadward.”