1066: What Became Of The Anglo-Saxon Children?

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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1066 is a year carved into the history of western Europe. It radically transformed the cultural, political and built landscape of England in a way that is hard to overstate - and yet its immediate aftermath is often forgotten. By Domesday, just 20 years later, around 94 percent of England's land remained in the hands of the Normans and their allies, and their children would inherit its vast majority.

So what became of those Anglo-Saxons who were too young to fight in 1066? In this episode Matt is joined by Dr Eleanor Parker, author of the fascinating new book Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, to find out more about the fates, fortunes and misfortunes of those last people born and raised in pre-conquest England.

Eleanor's book is available on Amazon here.

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0:29.9	book. Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval from History Hit. I'm Matt Lewis.
0:40.0	If you're anywhere near History Twitter, you'll almost certainly have come across my guest today
0:45.0	at a handle clerk of Oxford. And in a parker's new book Concord, the last children of Anglo-Saxon
0:51.6	England, draws out the stories of the often forgotten aftermath of the Norman conquest.
0:57.5	1066 is a year very much carved into the history of Western Europe, and it radically
1:03.2	altered the cultural, political and built landscape of England in a way that's hard to overstate.
1:09.3	Say the conquest and everyone knows precisely what and when you mean.
1:13.2	By Doomsday in 1086, only about 6% of land still remained in the hands of non-Normons.
1:20.6	Concord takes us into that intervening 20 years. What was it like for those two young
1:26.6	to fight off the Norman's in 1066, but forced to live with the outcomes of the battle of Hastings?
1:33.6	Stark choices, reduced prospects, and a loss of all that had been expected faced those who
1:39.6	had been children and teenagers in 1066. How did they deal with it? Well, Eleanor is here to explain
1:45.9	it all to us. Thank you very much for joining us Eleanor. Thanks for having me.
1:50.0	So I think one person that people may be aware of who was directly and immediately impacted
1:56.3	by the events of 1066 is Edgar Etheling. Can you tell us a little bit about him please?
2:02.0	Yeah, Edgar Etheling is kind of one of the most important members of this generation that I'm
2:06.3	interested in for the book. He was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon royal line, really the only
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