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Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538 - A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating part of England (Paperback)
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Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538 - A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating part of England (Paperback)
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In 1066 eastern Sussex was the beachhead for the successful
invasion of England by Duke William II of Normandy. He was crowned
William I, King of England, at Christmas 1066 and 1067 was the
first year of the Normanisation of England. 1538 saw the
dissolution of the major monasteries and abbeys including those of
Battle and Robertsbridge, and the start of the English Reformation.
How did William and his successors, from the houses of Normandy and
Blois, via the Angevin and Plantagenet kings, through the Wars of
the Roses to the rise of the Tudors change eastern Sussex? Most of
the history is hidden away in ancient documents, but some remains
visible, in the ruins of old abbeys and castles and in the
landscape itself. Before 1066 eastern Sussex appears to have been
somewhat separate from the sub- Kingdoms of Sussex - and many would
say it still is. It was more influenced by the Kingdom of Kent to
the east than the rather fragmented Sussex to the west. It was at
times called Hastingas - which existed from about the 6th to the
early 11th centuries. This evolved to became the part of Sussex
called the Rape of Hastings, which, with the Hundred of Pevensey,
makes up '1066 Country': eastern Sussex. It stretches from Pevensey
to Rye, and inland from the coast to the Kentish boundary. Battle
and its abbey sits at its heart, on the site of the Battle of
Hastings. The ways in which Battle, Bexhill, Pevensey,
Robertsbridge, Rye, Winchelsea and all of eastern Sussex evolved
between 1067 and 1538 are covered in this book. It also acts as a
guide book to further reading about the more complex issues.
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