William the Conqueror was a good leader and a bad leader at the same time. He was good for many ways including the feudal system and the domesday book. The feudal system was very helpful, this was just the way William dealt out land. The Domesday book was a survey, but not an ordinary survey, it stored information about different villages and how much tax they owed to the King. William, on the other hand, would go to villages, burn everything down and rape all of the female inhabitants. All in all William was not a perfect leader, but he was a good one at least. I hoped this helped, Yours sincerely, Anonymous.
A single scribe was the writer of the Doomsday Book. A second clerk checks the scribes work, added some note and further entries.
it was bad because no one liked it and many people were killed and slaughtered but people also loved it because it set some discipline to England.
Because it was at first kept secure in the royal treasury at Winchester. After the many Norman inspectors travelled around the country collecting the information they all gathered at Winchester, where the data was collated and written out by just one scribe. It made sense for the information to then be stored at Winchester. Strangely, Winchester itself was, like London, not included in the survey.
it allowed William collect alot of money and to know everything about everyone e.g. like how many things people own and how many things everyone had what was worth money .
over 1 million people were asked for the doomsday book
How many mills have you got and what is your manor called also how many meadows are there
There were only 2 domesday books written
William the Conqueror was a good leader and a bad leader at the same time. He was good for many ways including the feudal system and the domesday book. The feudal system was very helpful, this was just the way William dealt out land. The Domesday book was a survey, but not an ordinary survey, it stored information about different villages and how much tax they owed to the King. William, on the other hand, would go to villages, burn everything down and rape all of the female inhabitants. All in all William was not a perfect leader, but he was a good one at least. I hoped this helped, Yours sincerely, Anonymous.
he found out which people had what things and how many of them so he knew how much to tax them
A single scribe was the writer of the Doomsday Book. A second clerk checks the scribes work, added some note and further entries.
They beat the Anglo-Saxon army at Hastings in 1066 and William, Duke of Normandy was proclaimed King. The Normans built many churches and castles and were responsible for the Domesday Book of 1086 which listed all the towns, villages, hamlets and farms which were in existence at that time. The book is still in existence and is a great insight for historians as to the way things were in England nearly 1000 years ago.
Domesday Book is really two independent works. One, known as Little Domesday, covers Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. The other, Great Domesday, covers much of the remainder of England and parts of Wales, except for lands in the north that would later become Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland and County Durham. There are also no surveys of London, Winchester and some other towns. The omission of these two major cities is probably due to their size and complexity. Most of Cumberland and Westmorland are missing because they were not conquered until some time after the survey, and County Durham is lacking as the Bishop of Durham (William de St-Calais) had the exclusive right to tax Durham; parts of the north east of England were covered by the 1183 Boldon Book, which listed those areas liable to tax by the Bishop of Durham. The omission of the other counties has not been fully explained.
Because the parchment used to make the pages out of the book were made out of sheepskin, they needed to slaughter sheep. The slaughtered over 100,00 sheep to make the pages of the book but no-one knows the exact answer.
There were many. Domesday Book lists all the villages existing in 1086 and just some "near" Worcester are: Kempsey Upper Wolverton Lower Wolverton Whittington Clopton Kenswick Bradley Green Bishampton Pendock Westmancote Croome Holdfast Blockley Ditchford Dalesford White Ladies Aston Warndon Huddington Churchill Perry Bredicot Aston Fields Hartlebury Wolverley Longdon Halesowen Salwarpe Worsley Selly Oak Dudley Witton in Droitwich Chaddesley Corbett Martley Suckley ......... and many more.
it was bad because no one liked it and many people were killed and slaughtered but people also loved it because it set some discipline to England.
Because it was at first kept secure in the royal treasury at Winchester. After the many Norman inspectors travelled around the country collecting the information they all gathered at Winchester, where the data was collated and written out by just one scribe. It made sense for the information to then be stored at Winchester. Strangely, Winchester itself was, like London, not included in the survey.