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Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538: A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating (in English)
Keith Foord
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Battle and District Historical Society
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Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538: A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating (in English) - Foord, Keith
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Synopsis "Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538: A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating (in English)"
In 1066 eastern Sussex was the beachhead for the successful invasion of England by DukeWilliam II of Normandy. He was crowned William I, King of England, at Christmas 1066and 1067 was the first year of the Normanisation of England. 1538 saw the dissolutionof the major monasteries and abbeys including those of Battle and Robertsbridge, and thestart of the English Reformation.How did William and his successors, from the houses of Normandy and Blois, via theAngevin and Plantagenet kings, through the Wars of the Roses to the rise of the Tudorschange eastern Sussex? Most of the history is hidden away in ancient documents, but someremains 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 Kingdomof Kent to the east than the rather fragmented Sussex to the west. It was at times calledHastingas - which existed from about the 6th to the early 11th centuries. This evolvedto became the part of Sussex called the Rape of Hastings, which, with the Hundred ofPevensey, makes up '1066 Country': eastern Sussex. It stretches from Pevensey to Rye, andinland from the coast to the Kentish boundary. Battle and its abbey sits at its heart, on thesite of the Battle of Hastings.The ways in which Battle, Bexhill, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye, Winchelsea and all ofeastern Sussex evolved between 1067 and 1538 are covered in this book. It also acts as aguide book to further reading about the more complex issues.
