Geoffrey de Montbray (d. 1093), bishop of Coutances (Constantiensis), a right-hand man of William the Conqueror, was a type of the great feudal prelate, warrior and administrator at need. Events Donald III of Scotland comes to the throne of Scotland. ... King William I of England William I ( 1027–September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ... Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ...

Orderic says he knew more about marshalling mailed knights than edifying psalm-singing clerks. Obtaining as a young man, in 1048, the see of Coutances, by his brother's influence (see Mowbray), he raised from his fellow nobles and from their Sicilian spoils funds for completing his cathedral, which was consecrated in 1056. With bishop Odo, a warrior like himself, he was on the battle-field of Hastings, exhorting the Normans to victory; and at William's coronation it was he who called on them to acclaim their duke as king. Events The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway. ... Mowbray, the name of an Anglo-Norman baronial house, derived from Montbray (Manche) in Normandy south of St Lo. ... Events Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy. ... Odo of Bayeux (c. ... The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman conquest of England in 1066. ... The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were Scandinavian invaders (especially Danish Vikings) who began to occupy the northern area of France now known as Normandy in the latter half of the 9th century. ...

His reward in England was a mighty fief scattered over 12 counties. He accompanied William on his visit to Normandy (1067), but, returning, led a royal force to the relief of Montacute in September 1069. In 1075 he again took the field, leading with Bishop Odo a vast host against the rebel Earl of Norfolk, whose stronghold at Norwich they besieged and captured. Events Revolt of the Earls. ...

Meanwhile the Conqueror had invested him with important judicial functions. In 1072 he had presided over the great Kentish suit between the primate and Bishop Odo, and about the same time over those between the abbot of Ely and his despoilers, and between the Bishop of Worcester and the abbot of Ely, and there is some reason to think that he acted as a Domesday commissioner (1086), and was placed about the same time in charge of Northumberland. Events William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake. ... There are other places also called Ely. ... The Bishop of Worcester controls the see of Worcester and has his seat in Worcester Cathedral. ... For other places with this name, see Northumberland Northumberland is a county in England, on the border with Scotland. ...

The bishop, who attended the Conqueror's funeral, joined in the great rising against William Rufus next year (1088), making Bristol, with which (as Domesday shows) he was closely connected and where he had built a strong castle, his base of operations. He burned Bath and ravaged Somerset, but had submitted to the king before the end of the year. He appears to have been at Dover with William in January 1090, but, withdrawing to Normandy, died at Coutances three years later. In his fidelity to Duke Robert he seems to have there held out for him against his brother Henry, when the latter obtained the Cotentin. William II (called Rufus, perhaps because of his red-faced appearance, or maybe his bloody reign) (c. ... Events Succession of Pope Urban II (1088-1099) Work begins on the third and largest church at Cluny Rebellion of 1088 against William II of England lead by Odo of Bayeux. ... Bristol is a city in south-western England, through which flows the River Avon. ... Palladian Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath Bath is a city in south-west England, most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. ... Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Events Granada captured by Yusuf Ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravides Beginnings of troubadours in Provence Bejaia becomes the capital of the Algeria Births William of Malmsbury Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Famianus Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz Deaths Saint Malcoldia of Asti Saint Adalbero Categories: 1090 ... The Cotentin Peninsula juts out into the English Channel from Normandy towards England, forming part of the north-west coast of France. ...

See EA Freeman, Norman Conquest and William Rufus; JH Round, Feudal England; and, for original authorities, the works of Orderic Vitalis and William of Poitiers, and of Florence of Worcester; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; William of Malmesbury's Gesta pontificum, and Lanfranc's works, ed. Giles; Domesday Book. Edward Augustus Freeman (August 2, 1823 - March 16, 1892) was an English historian. ... Orderic Vitalis (1075 – c. ... William of Poitiers (c. ... The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of (mainly) secondary source documents narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons and their settlement in Britain. ... William of Malmesbury (c. ... Lanfranc (d. ... Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today. ...

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